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Welfare Reform

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Santorum criticizes Obama on welfare reform

Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Rick Santorum was one of Mitt Romney's toughest foes during the GOP presidential race, but the former Pennsylvania senator plans to help Romney appeal to the party's conservative base...
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GLEN ALLEN, VA - AUGUST 17: Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) speaks during a campaign stop at Deep Run High School on August 17, 2012 in Glen Allen, Virginia. Later today Rep. Ryan will be campaigning in northern Virginia. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Ryan says Obama undercuts welfare reform law

Beth Fouhy, Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan says President Barack Obama wants to ease work requirements for welfare recipients even though that claim has been largely debunked by independent fact checkers...
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Romney accuses Obama of 'gutting welfare reform'

Associated Press
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - Republican Mitt Romney is renewing his criticism of President Barack Obama's welfare policy, accusing him in a new ad of 'gutting welfare reform'...
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WATCH: Obama ad slams Romney welfare claim

Joy-Ann Reid
theGRIO REPORT - The Barack Obama re-election campaign hit back this week against a Mitt Romney campaign ad which claimed the administration is removing the work requirements from the federal 'welfare to work' program...
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Former President Bill Clinton.

Clinton criticizes Romney ad on welfare reform law

Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton is taking exception to a campaign ad by Mitt Romney that asserts that the Obama administration is weakening the work requirements for welfare...
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US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney during a meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres on July 29, 2012 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

Romney accuses Obama of dismantling welfare reform

Julie Pace and Steve Peoples, Associated Press
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill. (AP) - Making a play for middle-class voters, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney sought Tuesday to elevate welfare reform as a campaign issue, accusing President Barack Obama of encouraging a 'culture of dependency'...
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CAIRO, IL – JULY 13: London Williams, 19, gives a snack to her daughter A’Maria Kyles, 1, at Leroy McBride Project July 13, 2007 in Cairo, Illinois. Williams who is unemployed, pays $101 a month for subsidized apartment that for two years has been a home to her and her two small children. She receives $408 a month in food stamps and $250 in government cash-enough to put clothes on her kids and a couple of hours on her cell phone. Williams is currently pregnant with her third child. (Photo by Kuni Takahashi/Getty Images)

States may begin drug testing welfare recipients

Ashley Michelle Williams
the GRIO REPORT - Experts say it may be even harder for many black Americans to get welfare as 23 states have or are considering enforcing stricter laws that would require welfare recipients to take drug tests...
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How Gingrich has rewritten 'food stamps' history

Joy-Ann Reid
OPINION - Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker and now front-running Republican presidential candidate, has made calling Barack Obama the 'food stamp president' his calling card...
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Welfare reform 15 years later: Clinton's worst move

Earl Ofari Hutchinson
OPINION - Fifteen years later, the nation is stuck with a reform that did indeed end welfare as we know it. The price for that was to increase poverty for the millions that we also know...
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