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The 1996 welfare reform act is now in the normal course of revision and renewal, a process called ‘reauthorization’ in the American system. Its proper name is the ‘Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act’ (PRWORA) but this sort of verbal inflation is typical of the US Congress. It cannot be said that either the Administration or the Congress is basing its decisions on any serious analysis of the working of the 1996 Act, and that is an interesting fact by itself. This brief note cannot fill that gap, but it will make some selected inferences, and at least point to the relevant academic literature.
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Solow, R.M. (2004). The Aftermath of Welfare Reform in the USA. In: Södersten, B. (eds) Globalization and the Welfare State. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230524422_3
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