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To: combjelly who wrote (425651)	10/13/2008 5:33:32 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1575538

CJ, a quick search through Google turned up the following: articles.latimes.com Although declining welfare rolls were a national trend in the ’70s, Cannon said, “a study by the Urban League showed that California’s rolls declined more than other states” after the state bill was passed. “Bob was a key leader in Gov. Reagan’s effort to reform welfare, and as director of social welfare, he was the guy who had to do the hard work in the field to make sure that the governor’s reforms took hold,” said James Hall, who served as secretary of health and welfare and secretary of business and transportation during Reagan’s governorship. Martin Anderson, who served as Reagan’s early White House domestic and economic policy advisor and has written six books on Reagan, said he once asked Carleson, “What did you guys do? California’s welfare rolls went down enormously and yet there was no screaming and yelling. “He said, ‘We were accused of cutting people off the welfare rolls, but we didn’t do that. We carefully applied the law.’ The word spread around that, according to him, people began to understand if you wanted to do some gaming with this it didn’t work. You had to show that you were poor.” And as the number of people on welfare decreased, Anderson said, “more money was available to give to those who were on welfare a significant increase. “What he was saying was, let’s look at what the law says, apply it and if a person can’t take care of himself or herself they have every right to have welfare, and we’ll provide them with enough money so they can live comfortably and with dignity.”