Welfare Reform

Welfare reform refers to improving how a nation helps poor people. In the United States, the term was used to get Congress to enact the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, which further reduced aid to the poor, to reduce government deficit spending without coining money.

Famous quotes containing the words welfare and/or reform:

    “Power has only one duty—to secure the social welfare of the People.”
    —Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)

    “... most reform movements in our country have been cursed by a lunatic fringe and have mingled sound ideas for social progress with utopian nonsense.”
    —Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)