That was a program that was looking at transitioning people from welfare to work.
Moving benefit recipients from welfare to work, a sound Tory (and indeed Labour) policy, will also be pursued.
Under this policy, governors must commit that their proposals will move at least 20 percent more people -- more people -- from welfare to work.
Bush later heard from three single mothers who made the transition from welfare to work through the help of a program administered by a local church.
Specifically, Governors must commit that their proposals will move at least 20% more people from welfare to work compared to the state's past performance.
For example, a minimum wage guarantees a certain income for people who remain in work, but it will hinder the transition from welfare to work by destroying jobs.
He also promised to make it easier for single parents to ease the shift from welfare to work, by aiming to ensure they are better off in employment than on benefit.
Look at the specific proposals for allowing states that request it more flexibility to implement welfare reform, provided that their proposals will move at least 20 percent more people from welfare to work.
This morning, former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty appeared on ABC and discussed the letter he signed (pdf) along with 28 other Republican Governors asking for more flexibility administering programs that move Americans from welfare to work.
When its welfare rewrite became a political issue, HHS then invented a new standard that appears nowhere in its original memorandum and says that 20% more people need to move to work from welfare than before to get a waiver.
And helping them through the mechanism of welfare-to-work is far from ideal.
The row follows three small unions signing up to new welfare rules, which would reduce from 12 to eight the number of months artistic workers - who often work sporadically - can claim unemployment benefits in each year.
Modern economists have raised similar concerns about today's redistributive welfare states: by subtracting from the rewards of work and adding to the consolations of idleness, social transfers sap economies of their vigour.
Even worse, there is no authority in the welfare reform law for the federal government to issue any such waivers from the work requirements.
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Social Security Secretary Alistair Darling said the government was moving away from having a "passive" welfare system to an "active" one capable of responding to more flexible work patterns.
What really turns him on, apart from macroeconomic policy, are welfare and labour-market issues such as reducing child poverty and getting unemployed people back to work.
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