Question

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 did which of the following?

a. required unemployed adults to find employment within two years

b. shifted decision-making power in welfare issues from the states to the federal government

c. resulted in an average increase in welfare resources for most poor Americans

d. provided increased aid to dependent children

Answer 1

Answer: A. required unemployed adults to find employment within two year.

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Answer 2

a. required unemployed adults to find employment within two years

Facing Republican pressure to shear welfare programs further, Clinton signed into law the most sweeping welfare reform since the 1960s. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (1996) ended monetary aid to dependent children, required unemployed adults to find work within two years, and limited cash aid to vulnerable families to five years. Critically, the law also shifted to state government the power to make decisions concerning the distribution of many welfare benefits. The impact on the poor was immediate, with monetary aid to the nation's neediest families dwindling to one-third of its pre-reform level.