welfare reform 1996?

[10:31]

Brehs oh Brehs,


Is it true that Clinton’s welfare reform gave women incentives to keep men out of the house?

 

[Mook]

I think so. Not to mention he cut the program too.

 

[10:31]

I think so. Not to mention he cut the program too.

anybody got any articles or videos on this smh?

 

[10:31]

so.. this is a myth/urban legend?

 

[No_bammer_weed]

Brehs oh Brehs,


Is it true that Clinton’s welfare reform gave women incentives to keep men out of the house?

The complete opposite actually. The debate in the early '90s (and persists to this day unfortunately) was that welfare was encouraging women to use the govt. as a means of support, making a male provider unnecessary. Republicans bullied Clinton into a "reform" bill, and sold it as incentivizing black families into arraigning two parent households by essentially gutting benefits, thus motivating them to work. Here is a graph that illustrates how sharply benefits have fallen in constant dollars over the decades:

We are all smart enough to know that conservatives have zero interest in empowering the black family, as their attack on welfare is just part of one of their racist maxims that govt. takes from hard working whites and gives to lazy blacks, which they have used to drive constituency support from their almost exclusively white base. Cons are fully aware that its the economic and social downward pressures of poor education, hiring discrimination, police profiling, and judicial bias keeps black males out of the homes, and not some ridiculous idea that black women kick the men out in favor of a "govt. daddy". They actually want black males out of the homes by refusing to address our social and economic ecology of racism.

 

[theworldismine13]

cutting and reforming welfare was one of the best things clinton ever did