Thanks in large part to this change, welfare rolls have been cut in half.
With these new incentives, welfare rolls under the old program declined by almost 60% nationwide.
In the past six years, we have cut the welfare rolls nearly in half.
Most important, welfare rolls have halved because of the astonishing success of the 1996 welfare reform.
He can also claim to have cut the welfare rolls and reduced the budget deficit.
He reminds them that he cut New York's welfare rolls by more than half.
Yvette Johnson was the kind of job applicant who makes employers dread hiring off the welfare rolls.
At the same time, a shakier economic outlook is adding to pressure to cut the welfare rolls.
It encourages states to get people off the welfare rolls and onto payrolls.
The welfare rolls have fallen during the past year, partly because of case-workers' success in finding jobs for their charges.
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But for the relatively young and unskilled who make up the bulk of welfare rolls, employment prospects look rather dimmer.
This reform, helped along by the booming economy, has moved half of all recipients off the welfare rolls and into work.
That was effectively paying the states to run up the welfare rolls.
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Welfare rolls have fallen by more than half since the early 1990s.
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By the time he was through, welfare rolls had been cut nearly 60%--this in one of the most liberal cities in the country.
Mr McCracken says that cutbacks in federal unemployment benefits have further strained provincial finances by pushing more jobless people onto the welfare rolls.
As Mr Clinton loves to point out, welfare rolls have fallen fast during the past four years--by more than 2.5m between January 1993 and November 1996.
Thus, the key to reducing deficits over time is to have an expanding economy that, in turn, moves people off the welfare rolls and onto the employment rolls.
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He must count on the law showing immediate results next year, pushing large numbers of the 4.4m unemployed (10.6% of the workforce) off the welfare rolls and into work.
If things turn sour, positive urban trends such as declining crime and shrinking welfare rolls could sharply reverse, endangering the mayors' political fortunes and placing in jeopardy their most exciting policy proposals.
As a recent study from the Brookings Institution points out, the welfare rolls in America's biggest cities may be falling, but they are doing so much more slowly than in the surrounding counties.
States have an incentive to keep their welfare rolls low, so they may be pushing workers towards the federally funded SSI and DI programmes, argues Nancy Shor of the National Organisation of Social Security Claimants' Representatives, a lawyers' group.
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He also will take some of the credit for the nation's robust economy and an array of statistics behind the economy, including the longest peacetime expansion in U.S. history, lowest welfare rolls in 30 years and the first back-to-back government surpluses in 43 years.
What I do want is social welfare spending aimed at efficiently providing the least well off with a minimal safety net: food, shelter and health care about covers it, and these things ought to require demonstrated need and ongoing efforts to get off welfare rolls.
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