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1994.01.11 : Working Group on Welfare Reform Statement on APWA's
Welfare Reform Plan

Contact: Melissa Skolfield 
Tuesday, Jan. 11, 1994                             (202) 690-6853

STATEMENT REGARDING WELFARE REFORM PROPOSAL

The co-chairs of President Clinton's Working Group on Welfare
Reform issued the following statement today in response to the
release of a welfare reform plan by the American Public Welfare
Association.  The co-chairs are HHS Assistant Secretary for
Children and Families Mary Jo Bane, HHS Assistant Secretary for
Planning and Evaluation David T. Ellwood, and Deputy Assistant to
the President for Domestic Policy Bruce Reed.

"The American Public Welfare Association has done a tremendous job
of making recommendations to improve America's welfare system, and
many of their suggestions coincide with President Clinton's vision
for reform.  We applaud them for their efforts, and we look
forward to working with them to create a new system that reflects
the basic American values of work, family, responsibility and
opportunity.

"It is important and exciting that those who run America's welfare
programs are willing and committed to change.  The APWA's focus on
moving welfare recipients into private sector jobs, their desire
to improve child support enforcement, and their recognition of the
important role of the 1988 Family Support Act mirror our own
conclusions about a strategy to lend welfare as we know it.'"

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