Bitler, Marianne; Hoynes, Hilary W. - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2010
The passage of the 1996 welfare reform bill led to sweeping changes to the central U.S. cash safety net program for … families with children. Importantly, along with other changes, the reform imposed lifetime time limits for receipt of welfare … de facto ending the entitlement nature of cash welfare for poor families with children in the United States. Despite dire …
