From the crime bill to welfare reform, policies Bill Clinton enacted- and Hillary Clinton supported- decimated black America.

thenation.com

By Michelle Alexander

February 10, 2016

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To make matters worse, the federal safety net for poor families was torn to sheds by the Clinton administration in its effort to “end welfare as we know it”. In his 1996 State of the Union address, given during his re-election campaign, Clinton declared that “the era of big government is over” and immediately sought to prove it by dismantling the federal welfare system known as Aid to Families With Dependent Children (AFDC).

The welfare-reform legislation that he signed-which Hillary Clinton ardently supported then and characterized as a success as recently as 2008-replaced the federal safety net with a block grant to the states, imposed a five-year lifetime limit on welfare assistance, added work requirements, barred undocumented immigrants from licensed professions and slashed overall public welfare funding by $54 billion(some was later restored).

Extreme poverty doubled to 1.5 million in the decade and a half after the law passed.