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.
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“Power has only one duty—to secure the social welfare of the People.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
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—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
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