ABSTRACT
As Congress considered reauthorizing the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act in 2002, President George W. Bush offered his administration's assessment and recommendations. In the Executive Summary of the White House report, “Working Toward Independence,” the administration praises the 1996 law for reducing welfare rolls and urges greater efforts to replace government income support with wage labor (in part by increasing the number of hours recipients are required to work to forty hours a week) and/or marriage (in part by offering states federal funds for marriage promotion programs).
