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Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States

10/15/2002

It's Working
Welfare reform is working to reduce childhood poverty - even in the face of the ongoing economic doldrums. But I've yet to hear a cogent explanation for why Tennessee's welfare budget soared even as its welfare rolls fell by more than third during the 1990s. Well, there is one explanation: Don Sundquist.