the workforce, getting a job but keeping a job. truth of the matter is we need them. america really needs these people and we think they have a brighter future. julie: so you have introduced the welfare reform legislation. the jobs and opportunity with benefits and services for success act. it will have a huge focus on the workplace. how will it help the unemployed? and how is it going to be different than the clinton/gingrich reform in 1996? we build off those reforms but do some important things. one, the reforms in the 90s directed states to engage half of those on welfare to get them to work. a lot of states aren t engaging anyone. we set a new standard. everyone who is work eligible will have a game plan to get back to the workforce. secondly, that focus was mainly on women, which was exactly right.
governors, asked if they could have wavers to try new ways to people on welfare back to work, the obama administration listened and the administration agreed to give wavers to those governors and others only if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20% and they could keep the wavers only if they did increase employment. now, did i make myself clear in the requirement was for more work, not less. paul: that was former president bill clinton at the democratic national convention defending president obama s efforts to rewrite his 1996 welfare reform legislation. the house voted this week to block the administration s changes to that landmark law, changes mitt romney says will gut welfare to work requirements. we re back with dan henninger, james freeman and kim strassel. so, dan, bill clinton says that was all about expanding work.
have wavers to try new ways to people on welfare back to work, the obama administration listened and the administration agreed to give wavers to those governors and others only if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20% and they could keep the wavers only if they did increase employment. now, did i make myself clear in the requirement was for more work, not less. paul: that was former president bill clinton at the democratic national convention defending president obama s efforts to rewrite his 1996 welfare reform legislation. the house voted this week to block the administration s changes to that landmark law, changes mitt romney says will gut welfare to work requirements. we re back with dan henninger, james freeman and kim strassel. so, dan, bill clinton says that was all about expanding work.