THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION'S CONTRIBUTION TO POLICIES TO HELP PEOPLE LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY

1. REWARDING WORK

Expanded EITC to Put Money Back in Working Families' Pockets

Minimum Wage Hike Increased Pay By $1,800 for Full-time Workers

Provided Health Care to Low-Income Working Families

Enacted Single Largest Investment in Health Care for Children since 1965

Improved Access to Affordable and Quality Child Care

Initiated $3 Billion Welfare-to-Work Initiative

Helping People Get to Work

Welfare-to-Work Housing Vouchers

Helping People Who Want to Work but Can't Find a Job

Passage of Welfare-to-Work Tax Credit and Work Opportunity Tax Credit

2. SUPPORTING HARD-PRESSED WORKING FAMILIES

Introduced $500 Per-Child Tax Credit, Benefiting 13 Million Children from Low-income Families

Increased WIC by $1 Billion

Helping Working Families to Buy Food

Established of Individual Development Accounts (IDAs)

Providing Community Resources

3. INVESTMENTS IN EDUCATION: FROM HEAD START TO GEAR-UP TO PELL GRANTS

Expanded Head Start By Nearly 70 Percent

Launched the Reading Excellence Program

Helping Students Most in Need

Strong Investments in Educational Technology

Providing Safe After-School Opportunities

Creation of Youth Opportunity Grants

Creation of the GEAR-UP Initiative

Assisting Migrant Children and Families

Expanding Pell Grants

4. HELPING TO BRING PRIVATE ENTERPRISE AND CAPITAL TO DISTRESSED AREAS

Expanding Microenterprise Lending and Technical Assistance

Created the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund

Strengthened and Simplified the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)

135 Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities

The Economic Development Initiative (EDI) and Section 108 Loan Guarantee

Cleaning Up the Urban Environment through Brownfields Redevelopment

 

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