Hence Clinton's promise has been kept. Before the 1996 Bill i. A little, according to Income Maintenance Experiment. Effect of welfare on the family. But existence of welfare may underwrite single-parent families.
States manipulate eligibility and benefit levels to try to get poor people to live somewhere else.
The effect is to reduce benefit levels but not to reduce the total number of poor people. Some experts believe that welfare can be reformed but that real welfare reform costs money, especially at first. Training and orientation. Reduce the benefit reduction rate to encourage earning. No more matching grants to states.