“I’ll look forward to reading your book on why it failed this time,” Senator Moynihan told me on my first visit as cochair of the Clinton working group on welfare reform. Herewith, the first installment.
David Ellwood
David T. Ellwood is Malcolm Weiner Professor and academic dean at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. From 1992 to 1994, he served as assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Was Welfare Reform Worthwhile?
T here is no question that David Ellwood, the Clinton administration’s chief welfare intellectual, has been on a rough ride. But the political lessons he draws are less than useful (see “Welfare Reform As I Knew It,” May-June 1996). To discuss lessons, we need some agreement about what happened. Ellwood thinks more has been accomplished […]