Welfare reform will work again when work again is required

Published April 10, 2019 10:48pm ET



At least some people on Capitol Hill care about moving people from poverty to employment. Those people all seem to be Republicans.

Lost in the constant hubbub from Trumpian tweets and liberal media obsessions, Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, and Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., last month introduced a bill they call the JOBS for Success Act, to update the once-successful 1996 welfare reforms that President Obama allowed to wither away. This week, they are beginning a long, slow push to build public support for it before the current welfare law expires on June 30.

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