When a Republican Congress and a Democratic President, Bill Clinton, ended "welfare as we know it," millions of Americans were thrown off the welfare rolls.
The reform focused on work requirements, and made it impossible for a recipient to receive funding for more than five years.
Author Felicia Kornbluh argues that these reforms fell especially heavily on the backs of poor single mothers, especially mothers of color. Her book with Gwendolyn Mink is Ensuring Poverty: Welfare Reform in Feminist Perspective. Felicia Kornbluh is our guest.