12/02/2009
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"I think, actually, welfare reform played some positive role in getting more parents work, but it was welfare reform, accompanied by a range of supports for low-income workers, like extensions of child..."
"This really ought not to be an ideological debate. It's a ludicrous commentary on our times that we're unable to come to some decent conclusions."
"the Childcare Development Block Grant that is Senator Dodd's child. That is the one that he has been champion of for so long."
"Yet we are only one of four countries left that I can identify in the world that doesn't provide that basic right, it seems to me."