The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), passed in August 1996, ushered in the most significant welfare reform in six decades. It ended Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), and with it the federal entitlement to welfare implemented as part of the 1935 Social Security Act, and replaced it with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Its second anniversary was greeted by claims in the Department of Health and Human Services' Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program First Annual Report to Congress August 1998 (hereafter Report) that the reform had proven a resounding triumph. As President Clinton explained in a Rose Garden statement:
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