Biden Eyes Expanding Welfare State, Overturning Clinton-Era Reform
WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton in 1996 signed welfare reform into law, fulfilling his campaign promise to “end welfare as we know it.” A quarter-century later, advocates of that overhaul effort accuse the Biden administration of seeking to overturn the bipartisan accomplishment, calling its proposal an “attack” on the U.S. welfare system.
A majority of both Democrats and Republicans voted for the reform bill in 1996 in an effort to break what they termed a culture of poverty and dependence. Ten years after signing the legislation, Clinton took a victory lap to declare welfare reform a “great success,” in a New York Times op-ed.
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Republicans are making a risky bet by opposing Biden’s infrastructure plan.
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With their opposition to President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan, Republicans are doubling down on a core bet they’ve made for his presidency: that the GOP can maintain support among its key constituencies while fighting programs that would provide those voters with tangible economic assistance.
Last month, every House and Senate Republican opposed Biden’s massive $1.9 trillion stimulus plan, even though it delivered significant benefits to working-class white voters, the GOP’s foundational voting bloc, including increased health-care subsidies and expanded tax credits for families with children. That pattern is repeating with the infrastructure plan, even though it directs billions of dollars to rural communities, which are indispensable to Republican political fortunes.
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Advocates say Bidenâs child tax credits could lift thousands of Louisiana children out of poverty
Enhanced child tax credits included in President Biden s COVID relief package By Sabrina Wilson | March 9, 2021 at 6:45 PM CST - Updated March 10 at 8:57 AM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - More than 4 million people call Louisiana home and 19% live in poverty, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and children are not immune to the problem. But there is hope that President Joe Bidenâs COVID relief package, called the American Rescue Plan, will rescue many children from poverty in the state and around the country.
Jan Moller follows child poverty closely as the Executive Director of the Louisiana Budget Project.