The Washington Post, July 24th, 1991
Three years ago, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Thomas J. Downey (D-N.Y.) teamed up with President Reagan in a high-cost gamble to overhaul the nation's welfare program, which provides cash to about 4 million low-income parents and their 8 million children. Congress accepted the gamble and bet about $1 billion a year to help the states pay for compulsory statewide programs to train the parents (mostly women) and channel them to jobs. The training and work programs are just getting underway in many states. Now, a major study of nine experimental programs run during the 1980s has...
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