It is a tax credit that people with low incomes receive as a kind of bonus for working, the more they earn, the larger the tax credit up to a certain point. Then that, clinton and first Lady Hillary Clinton were engaged in a deeply divisive with congress and the American People in general that the future of the health care system. Clintons efforts to Reform Health care at the time failed, so the white house was occupied with health care at the time. And then in 1995, a new congress was inaugurated. This congress was controlled by republicans. That led to a year and a half of haggling between republicans and congress and the white house over what kind of welfare reform would ultimately be enacted. Eventually in the summer of 1996, almost 20 years ago to the day, clinton signed the welfare reform bill. That bill was signed in 1996. What were some of the key changes it made in the welfare system . Max i think the most important change is that welfare can no longer be taken for granted. Pe
Advantage of by blacks, and that most blacks are on welfare. They should go to the Public Library and look up the data. Look up the facts. They dont know that we have three classes, just like everybody else. We have the wealthy, the middle class, and the poor. Some very poor. We will not be angry with people if we know the facts. We would not be so bitter because we have something going on in our country now where there is a lot of animosity and resentment and hate, but by people that are not informed. Gloria, i am going to thank you for your call. You can see a beautiful picture of our Nations Capital there. It is 9 00 here in bc. Dc there will be plenty of time for your calls when we open up the phone lines again tomorrow morning at 7 00 on washington journal. On august 22, 1996, president of clinton signed a law aimed at reducing the number of americans who depend on Welfare Benefits. Temporary assistance for needy families, or tanf replaced a Welfare Program called a to families wi
Groups. You will get the people that are looking for the handout coming into the office with far less frequency. That enables you to focus your energies on those in need of aid. It also means there is less abuse of the taxpayer. There we go. In welfare reform, we basically had two goals. The first was to establish work requirements, not just to a game aid to families with dependent children, but also work requirements for food stamps. Secondly, and most importantly, to deal with the problem of out of wedlock childbearing and increase the number of children born inside marriage. Those were important. I think we made some modest progress on both of those fronts. Certainly not everything we could have done. This is going to be a very familiar chart. You saw one version of this. This is the temporary assistance with needy family caseload. This goes back to the time of the korean war. This is essentially the same data he was presenting. What we can see is that for a 55 year period, that red
Daily record for u. S. Cases. 48,000, you see, on the far right there. The red arrow. We are in record breaking surging territory. Thats in one day. Thats the sad truth. You need to know the truth. And right now, the president cannot handle the truth. And i think were going to be very good with the coronavirus. I think at some point, that is going to just disappear, i hope. That is false. Thats a new statement from the president. Numerically things are worse than ever right now tonight. And as for whether this is staying or going or disappearing, we have the evidence. 38 states are now seeing increases. The virus is up 80 in the last two weeks. Vice president pence in arizona today. He did donna mask. You can see it there. Modeling a type of leadership. Arizona hitting its highest daily increase. 4,800 cases and 88 deaths. Now, mike pence has made strides. We heard from medical experts say it is better that hes modeling masks now as opposed to failing to do. That he leads a virus task
It is 4 00 a. M. In new york. Good morning, everyone. The u. S. Trying desperately to contain the coronavirus. 14 americans who tested positive for the disease were among the hundreds of americans evacuated off cruise ships and other evacuees. Its special bio containment unit is a stateoftheart facili facility. Now other countries making plans to get their citizens off the floating petri dish and out of japan. This disembarkation process will be beginning starting tomorrow here in tokyo and last from the 19th through the 21st. Everyone on that ship is now going to be tested for the coronavirus by the end of the today. So it takes a couple of days to get those results back. So if you it was a few days ago and youre negative you can get off tomorrow. If you tested negative you wont be able to get off ship. We also know other countries are following the United States lead in terms of evacuating their citizens. We know the canadians, australians and italians among other countries are going