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[Music] remember the 9s the Spice Girls flannel shirts cloning sheep and the Macarena of course one of the most important events of the decade took place in 1996 when President Clinton and Congress passed bipartisan Landmark welfare reform legislation why was this so significant because the bipartisan effort paved a road out of the Endless cycle of poverty by instituting time limits and work requirements these reforms PVE the way to freedom from dependency on the government families Across America were put back on the road to Prosperity then sadly the government began to Tinker and the ability of families to find a way out of Crisis became difficult take the number of able-bodied childless adults receiving food stamps until 2009 this number was under 1 million but by 2010 that number jumped to nearly 4 million by 2013 almost 4.9 million able-bodied childless adults were receiving food stamps that's five times the number of people dependent upon the government and that's just one demogr