Federal Welfare Windfall Frees New York Money for Other Uses
April 23, 2000. Raymond Hernandez reporting for the New York Times quotes FPI's Frank Mauro. In the four years since the overhaul of the nation's welfare laws, New York has taken at least $1 billion given to it by the federal government for new antipoverty programs and used it instead to indirectly finance huge tax cuts and other programs that appeal to middle-class voters, according to government and private estimates. The budgetary switch has been employed by other states, prompting Congress to open an investigation [...]