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Congress may hem and haw, but the popular consensus is behind accountability and efficiency.
Barton Swaim is right that welfare reform deserves a return to the center of U.S. political debate (“Why the Welfare Debate Went Silent,” Weekend Interview, Aug. 22). But while politicians may have stopped arguing about the principles that animated the welfare debates of the 1990s, voters haven’t abandoned them.
Thirty years after Bill Clinton signed landmark welfare reform into law, a recent Manhattan Institute survey of likely voters finds that 74% support requiring welfare recipients to demonstrate that they are seeking work. That includes majorities of Democrats and independents.
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Jesse Arm is the vice president of external affairs at the Manhattan Institute.