claim: the obama administration is allowing state waivers from welfare work requirements "only if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20 percent."
author: bill clinton
evidence_1: the personal responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation act of 1996 ( prwora) is a ... those on welfare realized that taking up a job would mean not  only losing ... if states were also able to find credible ways to increase  employment by 20%. ... however, by 1994, the clinton administration appeared  to be more ...
evidence_2: sep 6, 2012 ... “he [obama] has offered a reasonable plan of $4 trillion in debt .... of the  supreme court ruling allowing states to opt out of the expansion of the program. “ the administration agreed to give [welfare] waivers to those governors and  others only if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20 percent, ...
evidence_3: apr 6, 2017 ... in other words: the trump administration wants to let states require medicaid  beneficiaries to work if they want to keep their publicly provided health insurance.  ... kentucky's proposed plan applies only to “'able-bodied' working age adults,” ....  of welfare recipients working by 5 percentage points by year five.
evidence_4: apr 1, 2016 ... clinton had campaigned on a pledge to “end welfare as we know it” and today ...  it required a certain percentage of welfare recipients in states to be ... of food  stamps if they aren't employed at least 20 hours a week or in a training program.  ... a waiver to the snap requirement that adults like stacy work after ...
evidence_5: aug 7, 2016 ... a careful and objective assessment of tanf's work requirements suggests that ...  administration, which provided states flexibility, but had strong accountability  provisions ... states were to have 20 percent of their nonexempt caseloads ..... ( except for teen parents); they can only participate in core activities.