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    The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) is a United States federal law passed by the 104th United States...
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    Technical Corrections Act of 1994 Immigration Act of 1990 Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act Remain in Mexico 287(g)...
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  • the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996, the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, the Health Care and Education...
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    War on poverty (category Metaphors referring to war and violence)
    proposed title of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act that "a more Orwellian title would be hard to conceive" and attributed the decline...
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  • Congress passed and President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. § 666), which required that states adopt...
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    advocating for and signing the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, the State Children's Health Insurance Program and financial deregulation...
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  • Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act in 1996. In 1996 the United States Congress passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation...
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    to write the 1996 welfare reform law known as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act. He is credited with coining the welfare reform catchphrase...
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    particularly since the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act. Questions regarding US responsibility have also been raised regarding...
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    Democrats supported them. Both the Defense of Marriage Act and Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (PRWOA) became law three months before the 1996...
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    and the Economic Opportunity Act was passed. Commonly known as "the Great Society" 1996: Passed under Clinton, the "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity...
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    and the new Republican majorities passed conservative legislation such as the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity...
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    Clinton's presidency, Republicans won passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, a bill which placed several new limits on those receiving...
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  • and Local Fiscal Assistance Act PL 92-512 1995: Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 PL 104-4 1996: Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act PL...
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    that Clinton vetoed, Gingrich and his supporters pushed for passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, which was intended to reconstruct...
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  • dependence: The House Ways and Means Committee stated that the goal of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act was to "reduce the length of...
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  • for work. Centrelink (Australia) Jobseeker's Allowance Jobcentre Plus Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act Welfare...
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  • promised to "end welfare as we have come to know it". The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act was crafted as a response to the perceived failings...
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  • Families (TANF) program in 1997 pursuant to the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996. Hagen & Lurie 1993, p. 199...
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    Foundation's recommendations, incorporating them into the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act.[citation needed] Following the September 11 attacks...
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    became teenage mothers, and rates have fallen since then. In the United States, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 included the...
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    Protection Act of 1996 PL 104-188 1996: Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act PL 104-193 1996: Veterans Employment Opportunities Act PL 105-339...
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  • International: Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act Michalopoulos, Charles, Philip K. Robins and David Card. 2005. "When financial work incentives...
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    Welfare's Decline, from the Moynihan Report (1965) to the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (1996)", Journal of Policy History, Vol. 14, Number...
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    President Bill Clinton and the Republican Congress passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (also known as welfare reform)...
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    governors, mayors, county officials, and state legislators to consult on the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act. In 1996 she was elected Cuyahoga...
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  • Provision) (Scotland) Act 2012 The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act is sometimes referred to as the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 List of short...
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  • Modernization Act and the repeal of the Glass–Steagall Act and implementing cuts to the welfare state through passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity...
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    support arrearage under 42 U.S.C. § 652(k) and enacted as part of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act in 1996, is the second cornerstone of...
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  • through the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, which significantly reduced the amount of time individuals can stay on welfare and as a result...
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