Perhaps a glimpse back at an earlier cultural shift can bring into focus the facts regarding the 2014 election. In 1992, Bill Clinton ran on a moderate platform, famously pledging to “end welfare as we know it.” Like a lot of things he said, he didn’t really mean it, but with out-of-wedlock birthrates soaring, welfare rolls exploding, and the states’ shares of welfare stipends and health costs going through the roof, it made a popular sound bite on the campaign trail. Once elected, he promptly switched his attention back to his priorities. But facing the ever-escalating costs of entitlement programs,  state governors kept pushing for waivers to the rules of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) programs that would enable them to control their spiraling welfare and health-care costs. These waivers allowed states to: (1) Institute a requirement that to receive financial aid, teen mothers had to stay in school and live with their parents or a...(Read Full Article)