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The New Republic Article Rating

The End of "the End of Welfare As We Know It"

Aug 20, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -42% Medium Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    54% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -2% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Twenty-five years ago, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act into law, following through on his campaign pledge to "end welfare as we know it."
50% : Have we finally reached the end of the end of welfare as we know?
38% : "Welfare is no longer a political football to be kicked around," he said after signing the law.
29% : Ronald Reagan spent a lot of his energy demagoguing against the system, talking about welfare queens and "strapping young bucks" who bought pricey steaks with government benefits, eventually turning welfare into a dirty word.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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