{"id":109363,"date":"2025-08-13T20:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=109363"},"modified":"2025-08-13T20:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:36:16","slug":"favorite-tweets-29457","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=109363","title":{"rendered":"Favorite tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2\/ In 1996, Clinton\u2019s reform cut TANF rolls by 60% \u2014 about 8 million people \u2014 by requiring able-bodied adults to work.<\/p>\n<p>But TANF was small compared to today\u2019s welfare state.<br \/>\nMedicaid now covers 83 MILLION people.<\/p>\n<p>Food stamps? 42 MILLION.<\/p>\n<p>The 1996 reform barely touched them. https:\/\/t.co\/29CMdUfeQi<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; Rod D. Martin (@RodDMartin)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RodDMartin\/status\/1955465267363893387\">Aug 13, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom http:\/\/twitter.com\/RodDMartin<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2\/ In 1996, Clinton\u2019s reform cut TANF rolls by 60% \u2014 about 8 million people \u2014 by requiring able-bodied adults to work. But TANF was small compared to today\u2019s welfare state. Medicaid now covers 83 MILLION people. Food stamps? 42 MILLION. The 1996 reform barely touched them. https:\/\/t.co\/29CMdUfeQi &mdash; Rod D. Martin (@RodDMartin) Aug 13, &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=109363\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Favorite tweets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-109363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109364,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109363\/revisions\/109364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109363"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=109363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}