On the recordMarch 11, 1997
More important even than that, Congressman Pappas, is it will help those people. We passed very important welfare reform last year and it is already beginning to show some benefits. We are seeing welfare rolls going down. I have been doing some research in my home State, and we have seen a dramatic drop in welfare rolls just since we passed that legislation last year. The real answer is we need more jobs in the private sector. We need more people on payrolls. When we talk about economic growth, that can become almost a nebulous term that people do not understand, but they do understand good-paying jobs and more of them. That is really what we are talking about, is making it possible so that more folks who need good-paying jobs can find those good-paying jobs in the communities and in the neighborhoods where they live.
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