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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • authorships and voting percentages. Please note that both the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act became...
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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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    funds that were initially enacted with the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). PRWORA denied federal funding...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Clinton administration in protest of Clinton signing the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act. According to Edelman, the 1996 welfare reform law...
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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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    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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    (value) when compared to other currencies. The index is designed, maintained, and published by ICE (Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.), with the name "U.S. Dollar...
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    and taxpayers get the value they deserve. He supported welfare reform and was a part of the team that introduced the Personal Responsibility and Work...
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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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    campaign. Having voted against the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, better known as the "Welfare Reform Act," which, he said, would result...
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    Aid to Families with Dependent Children (category United States Department of Health and Human Services)
    with the Republican-controlled Congress to pass the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, which drastically restructured the program. Among...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Republicans, while claiming the major credit for them. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (PRWORA) of 1996 established the Temporary Assistance...
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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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  • right-to-work laws, outsourcing, and noncompete agreements even for some minimum wage workers. Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity...
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    campaign. Having voted against the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, better known as the "Welfare Reform Act," which, he said, would result...
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