I no longer consider people on welfare white trash.
A Populus poll this month showed that voters favour Labour on welfare reform.
It may be smaller than the present gap, but it will still have a big impact on welfare spending.
Of course, some liberals honestly disagreed with us on welfare reform, trade, fiscal responsibility, and national defense.
More recently he introduced himself into the debate on welfare reform by insisting that unwed motherhood, not joblessness, was the key problem.
DECADES after America started to experiment with "workfare", requiring those on welfare to do some work in return for their handouts, France has woken up to the idea.
James Purnell, the work and pensions secretary, outflanked the Tories on welfare reform even when an ardent reformer, Chris Grayling, shadowed him.
The mayor sees more understanding. "People have a different attitude now toward people who are working and have to go on welfare.
They believe the option of living on welfare handouts has produced 'feather-bedded' teenagers prone to rudeness and disrupting the classroom rather than concentrating on working and getting ahead.
I began by asking Congress to put aside partisanship and pettiness and pride and suggesting that we work together on welfare reform, not to punish the poor but to empower them.
The analysis is open to criticism: the societies he sees as unbroken, including many in continental Europe, spend more on welfare than he would want to or can afford to.
The enactment of minimum living standard security system is most noticeable in the civil administration welfare system reform.
