Work requirements
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Brookings Institution analyst Ron Haskins, who as a Republican committee aide helped draft the historic welfare reform measure -- and who favors granting states more latitude. But he also told The Fiscal Times that if the administration "wanted to undermine the work requirement," the new policy "is a way to do it." [1]
Prof. Douglas Besharovof the University of Maryland said, "If I believed in the work requirements, I wouldn't put in language encouraging states to lift them all."