After the Safety Net: A Welfare Reformer Reflects on What Washington Wrought

David T. Ellwood is the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy and former
academic dean at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He previously served as
assistant secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services.
After serving as one of the two chief architects of President Clinton's welfare reform proposal,
Ellwood resigned in protest over Clinton's support of the Republican bill -- a bill that did not
provide jobs or other protections for welfare recipients who reached welfare time limits without
finding a job.