Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, he had an idea of what the

critical responses would be. The hope was to induce a program that would

bring significant benefits to the needy and hungery people of our country.

However, the response and criticisms are equivalent to what our president

Mary Jo Bane believes the new welfare law poses serious dangers to poor

children and families. As assistant secretary for children and families in

the Department of Health and Human services, she supported the

administration's efforts to refocus the welfare system on work and to increase

state flexibility through the waiver process. But in the course of reviewing

state welfare reform proposals, she became concerned that politics and

financial pressures were pushing states into a "race to the bottom"(Bane). As

long as the old law was in place the federal government could insist on

guaranteed assistance and protections for recipients. Her fears about what

would happen to poor children when states were no longer required to provide

the modest assurances and protections we insisted on in waiver demonstrat

of thousands of legal immigrants -- including many who have worked in the

dollars an hour, a considerable amount less than the average.

Political Science Quarterly. 40 par. 11 June, 1999

can't help but praise a few pieces of the legislation, such as the child care

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