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One Decade Later, Has Welfare Reform Worked? [3min]

It has been 10 years since the Clinton administration, prodded by a Republican-dominated Congress, signed a bill to radically revamp the nation's welfare system. Ed Gordon talks with Diane Dujon, a former welfare recipient and current welfare activist, and Jeffrey Jones, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, about welfare today.
Read entire article at NPR "News & Notes with Ed Gordon"