The principal barrier to economic revival in declining American cities is the huge number of poorly educated children who emerge from the public schools in these cities every year. Through utilization of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, this situation...

In August 1996, President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, fulfilling his campaign promise to "end welfare as we know it". The legislation replaces the six-decade-old Aid To Families With Dependent Children programme (AFDC) with so-called workfare under which...

Major changes are underway in the American programme to aid mothers with dependent children. One major component of the proposed changes is a work requirement for mothers. To begin to explore what problems and opportunities may be created by a work requirement, this paper explores several...