"There was too much spending on it, in my view," conservative policy analyst Ron Haskins at the Brookings Institution said.
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As a result, RonHaskins of the Brookings Institution reports in his book evaluating the 1996 welfare reforms, Work Over Welfare, nearly 4.2 million single mothers and children climbed out of poverty, reducing the poverty rate by one-third.