Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton Makes the Case at the 2012 DNC

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Transcript of prepared remarks (note: Clinton veered from his prepared remarks several times): I want to nominate a man whose own life has known its fair share of adversity and uncertainty. A man who ran for President to change the course of an already weak economy and then just six…

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Welfare Reform Turns 15

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Fifteen years ago, former President Clinton passed welfare reform, signing into law “the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act,” which had the effect of reorganizing welfare into Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF. Fifteen years later, with an economy spiraling downwards, the largest racial wealth gap we’ve had in…

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