New Welfare Reform Plan Seeks to Put Recipients to Work

By Robert Ross
03/25/2011
Republican House members introduce the Welfare Reform Act of 2011, which is set to expand the reforms of the mid-1990s. The reform comes on the heels of U.S. Census Bureau data showing one in seven Americans live at or below the poverty line.

TAGS: Heritage Foundation, House Republican Study Committee, Jim Jordan, Katherine Bradley, Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Welfare Reform Act of 2011