After Work Requirements and Welfare requirements, single-parent household poverty fell more than 60% between 1995 and 2016

See The GOP Can Win on Work Requirements and Welfare: The details show how reasonable the House debt-ceiling proposals are. WSJ editorial. Excerpts:

"“They’re coming for the children. They’re coming for the poor. They’re coming for the sick, the elderly and the disabled,” Democrat John Lewis wailed on the House floor in the 1995. He was wrong about that 1996 welfare reform, which included a work requirement and has been an engine for upward mobility. By one analysis, single-parent household poverty fell more than 60% between 1995 and 2016.

Democrats have slowly reversed much of the 1996 reform in recent years. This is one reason so many prime-age Americans are now out of the labor force, which hurts the economy and social cohesion."