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Obama’s Welfare Abuses: From Worse to Worst

By Quin Hillyer
Wednesday, July 25 2012

My colleague Ashton Ellis was Johnny-on-the-spot two weeks ago in highlighting the utter lawlessness of the Obama administration’s move to gut a core requirement of welfare reform – but a fortnight later, it looks as if the implications are even worse than they first appeared. As Ellis and the Heritage Foundation both explained, Obama issued an executive order purporting to “waive” the work requirements that were so important to the 1996 overhaul of what had been Aid to Families with Dependent Children – the most prominent of the 73 different types of “welfare”…

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