Discouraging Quote by Jim Talent

The tragedy of government welfare programs is not just wasted taxpayer money but wasted lives. The effects of welfare in encouraging the break-up of…

— Michael Tanner

The 1996 welfare reform law, for the first time, connected welfare benefits with an expectation that recipients would work or participate in training. That…

— Charles Boustany

We need welfare reform to get people back to work and provide proper support for those that can't.

— Liz Kendall

After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.

— Iain Duncan Smith

“The welfare state and its funding are at the center of current political debate in the United States. Today, the country is divided on…

— Werner Neff

What we’re putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state… for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect…

— David Cameron

Welfare reform passed in the 90s worked because states were given maximum authority along with adequate funding. This model can work for the repeal…

— Kim Reynolds

Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system of federal…

— George Gilder

“Although the 1996 welfare reform pushed millions of low-income single moms into the workforce, it did nothing to improve the conditions of low-wage jobs.…

— Kathryn Edin

Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So…

— Gail Collins

We need workfare over welfare.

— Jack Kingston

Welfare reform was a good-faith effort to break the cycle of intergenerational dependence.

— Heather Mac Donald