He says he doesn't have to listen to such insults and hangs up. Now that I'm temporarily safe from interruption, I want to say that I never particularly liked welfare as we knew it. But I'm pretty worried about welfare as we are going to know it. Or not know it. The new work requirements and time limits will get some people off the rolls.
Nobody is prepared to count.
In that elusive future economists call the long run, I can see one possible good outcome. As the new rules increase the ranks of the working poor, low and middle-income families will have more in common. It will be harder to blame poverty on the poor themselves. An experimental program with a control group, in Milwaukee. Provided child-care subsidies, additional income, and health insurance coverage to families where a parent was working at least 30 hours a week for pay.