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Article: Battered women hit hard by welfare reform
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- February 23, 1998
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L. Edleson
University Wire
02-23-1998
(Minnesota Daily) (U-WIRE) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- President Clinton promised to change welfare "as we know it," and indeed he did, against the advice of some of his closest advisors. He signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act in August 1996, setting the stage for further erosion of the already deteriorating safety net for the country's poorest families. Some of those hit hardest by these changes are battered women.
Welfare Reform, as the new law is commonly known, replaces some older programs with Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). Time limits in the new program restrict a recipient to a total of 60 months ...