Welfare Policy Scholar

Ron Haskins

1 article 2000

Ron Haskins is a policy scholar and expert on welfare reform, poverty, and family policy. He served as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and played a key role in crafting the 1996 federal welfare reform legislation as a congressional staff member. He contributed analysis of welfare policy outcomes to The Weekly Standard.

The Verdict on Welfare Reform

November 13, 2000 · Magazine

ONE ISSUE that has been virtually absent from the presidential campaign -- for the simple reason that the major candidates apparently agree on it -- is welfare reform. Yet just four years ago, the historic legislation that ended the federal welfare entitlement was highly controversial. In…