WelfareReform
1/5/2012 12:57 PM ET
Jason DeParle: "...the evidence suggests that America is not only less equal, but also less mobile....The United States maintains a thinner safety net than other rich countries, leaving more ...
11/4/2011 1:38 PM ET
But reporter Jason DeParle once condemned Bill Clinton for signing a welfare reform bill that "begrudges poor infants their Pampers."
3/30/2010 5:41 PM ET
Media weren't as quick to point out so-called 'vitriolic' rhetoric during 1990s congressional debate over welfare reform.
2/11/2010 11:31 AM ET
In 1996, reporter Jason DeParle accused Clinton of signing a welfare reform bill that "begrudges poor infants their Pampers" and predicted an epidemic of child abuse, abortion, prostitution and ...
1/28/2010 12:58 PM ET
Reporter Jason DeParle plumps another exaggerated "hunger in America story" in Wednesday's paper. But he's been dead wrong about such issues before.
1/4/2010 2:52 PM ET
But some of his victims aren't quite sympathetic: "[Wanda Debnam] sleeps with her 8-year-old granddaughter under a poster of the Jonas Brothers and uses her food stamps to avoid her ...
2/2/2009 4:49 PM ET
Veteran reporter Jason DeParle criticizes welfare reform on Monday's front page, but has opposed it from the start: In 1996 he accused Bill Clinton of "seeking re-election with a bill that ...
8/22/2006 12:47 PM ET
"...a growing group of poor families, known to scholars as the 'disconnected,' that are scraping by without either cash benefits or employment." Where?
