Welfare Reform, Then and Now
The welfare reform bill Hillary Clinton championed has doubled the number of people living on less than $2 a day.
In 1996, Bill Clinton signed welfare reform into law.
Here’s Hillary Clinton talking about her role in the bill’s passage seven years later, in her memoir Living History:
The President eventually signed this third bill into law. Even with its flaws, it was a critical first step to reforming our nation’s welfare system. I agreed that he should sign it and worked hard to round up votes for its passage.