Request Reprint Send us your request to reprint copyrighted material. The close of the 1990s marks a milestone for the Democratic Party, and for the New Democrat movement in particular. Things in America were not quite right. Unemployment and inflation were far too high, the deficit was going up and real income was going down. Today, the United States is on a roll.
Inflation is low and under control.
Incomes and wages are going up. Child poverty is down and the welfare rolls have been cut nearly in half. The violent crime rate is the lowest in a quarter-century . It's an incredible record, but it didn't happen by accident. It took the hard work of those who saw that the old Democratic Party ideas just didn't work any more.