Remarks at Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois
02/05/1984
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the only true measure of a welfare program's success is how many people it makes independent of welfare.
I applaud those efforts, and want to begin a process to encourage many more of these state and community-based reform efforts.
We can and must do better.
The sad truth is that, despite our best intentions, the welfare system is failing; the system traps people in a cycle of dependency that rob...