Olivia Golden is a senior fellow and director of Assessing the New Federalism Project at the Urban Institute, a policy research group in Washington, D.C. From 1997 to 2001, she was assistant secretary for children and families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She said in a July 24, 2005, commentary that welfare reform has succeeded in […]

Isabel Sawhill is senior fellow in economic studies at Brookings, where she works with the Center on Children and Families and the Future of the Middle Class Initiative. She served as co-director of the AEI-Brookings Working Group on Paid Family Leave.

Read a July 11, 2013, article from the New York Post about recent efforts by local governments to reform welfare.

Read a June 18, 2013, article from the Washington Post about the long-term impact of welfare reform.

Read a June 5, 2013, commentary from The Washington Post about state welfare reform designed to require drug tests for welfare recipients.

Read a Sept. 19, 2012, article posted by the Heritage Foundation summarizing Barack Obama’s work on welfare reform.

A July 17, 2006, USA Today story assesses the achievements and challenges of welfare reform at 10.

A July 27, 2006, Economist story calls welfare reform a success but points to difficulties faced by the working poor.

A May 1, 2016, New York Times story discusses the “Back to the Future” view on welfare that was taken on by the Clinton administration and, now, the Trump administration as poverty persists.