To begin, the Welfare Reform Act, also known as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, was a legislation signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996. Its purpose was to replace the controversial social program Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) with Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). The AFDC was issued as part of the New Deal’s Social Security Act of 1935. Moreover, the AFDC was a federally issued program where the federal government itself had to decide upon which people qualify for financial relief. However, this program was widely criticized due to its discriminate favoritism because white single mothers who are not in the labor work field were more likely to receive relief than those in
