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  • In the 1990s, President Clinton showed how to reform welfare in probably the most successful social policy ever enacted: make welfare temporary and have generous pro-work tax credits.

    The Conservatives and Welfare Rupert Darwall 2010

  • It was done both for positive pro-work reasons and, less often stated, because of the belief that bad parenting in the early years can do kids a lot of damage that proves hard to correct.

    Frank Field's comments on welfare reform are clever, provocative and perhaps counterproductive 2010

  • That practice is under threat from a controversial pro-work law that will allow more French stores to open Sundays.

    Mon Dieu! Sunday Work Hours 2009

  • When to promote some pro-work policies implies to crush (temporarily or permanently) an "inconvenient" or "invisible" subgroup of people (more vulnerable people), their supporters are being really communist because from all socialist/communist contributions, the specimen point of view on people is one of the most disgraceful, imposing anguish on somebody as a necessary cost of to benefit others (they were not original in that).

    Unemployment, Labor Market Regulation, and Sour Grapes, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • "It's got a strong pro-work, work-incentive character," says Richard Nathan of the State University of New York at Albany.

    The War On Work 2008

  • Bill promised to “end welfare as we know it” and to make the program pro-work and pro-family.

    Living History Hillary Rodham Clinton 2003

  • Bill promised to “end welfare as we know it” and to make the program pro-work and pro-family.

    Living History Hillary Rodham Clinton 2003

  • We said we believed that the modern economy must be pro-work and pro-family.

    Remarks By The President To The People Of East Lansing ITY National Archives 2001

  • It happened because we believed you could be pro-business and pro-labor, pro-work and pro-family; you could grow the economy and improve the environment; you could balance the budget and run a surplus and still invest more in education and give tax relief to middle income families.

    Remarks By The President To Building And Construction Trades ITY National Archives 2000

  • This pro-work tax credit that's pro-job and pro-growth as well, is a major advance in public policy.

    Press Briefing By Sperling And Baily ITY National Archives 2000

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