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WELFARE REFORM

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Washington Welfare Reform Progress Report
America Institute for Full Employment | March 2004

Welfare Reform in Miami (full report)
Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and Neighborhoods
The 1996 national welfare reform law introduced a five-year time limit on federally funded cash assistance, imposed tough new work requirements, restricted benefits for noncitizens, and gave states more flexibility to design their welfare programs than in the past. Anticipating that the law might pose particular challenges for urban areas — where poverty and welfare receipt are concentrated — MDRC launched a study to examine its implementation and effects in four big cities. This report focuses on trends in Miami-Dade County between 1996 and 2002. Click here for a summary of the report.

Faith-Based Welfare Reform: Restoring Families from the Inside Out
Since the passage of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, we have turned our attention to practical application through this multi-year project. When it comes to helping needy people, we believe that the faith-based community is in the best position to meet the needs of the whole person. The program is geared toward helping lay leaders and church leaders move away from a seasonal "food basket" approach to building long-term relational ministries with people in need.

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1 Part Honesty; 2 Parts Arrogance

At a March 23, 2005, House Appropriations hearing on a bill to gut the voter-approved I-601 spending limit, Rep. Jim McIntire (D) asked a supporter of I-601�s two-third supermajority requirement for the legislature to raise taxes the following question:

"Can you name a time when we [legislators] have actually not just set it [supermajority requirement] aside by majority vote? I mean, this is in many respects a procedural motion that has no bearing. It�s a statutory constraint that cannot constrain any legislature that chooses as a majority to set it aside . . . have we ever used a supermajority [to raise taxes]?"

- Rep. Jim McIntire (D - 46)
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Despite the arrogance of some state officials, Washington's constitution is clear: "All political power is inherent in the people..."

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