One can see through this excellent examination, how NYC changed the welfare state it had been, lessening crime, improving employment numbers under Giuliani and to a lesser degree, yes, also under Bloomberg. Imagine if you extrapolated more of these ideas out nationally.
However, for NYC, come January 1, Bill de Blasio takes office, and he has fought all of these roads to improvement, arguing to continue the welfare state.
There’s a generation of New Yorkers who have no idea what it was like to live in NYC before Giuliani. They may now find out…
Via NY Post:
Bill de Blasio’s mayoralty will be primarily judged on whether he sustains New York’s record-breaking crime drop. But keep your eye on another number, too: 348,000, the tally of New Yorkers now receiving cash welfare.
Sixty-nine percent fewer residents are on cash benefits today than when Rudy Giuliani took office in 1994, and 24 percent fewer than when Mike Bloomberg took over in 2002, thanks to a deliberate attack on New York’s post-1960s dependency culture. As a result, more New Yorkers are employed today than at any time in the city’s history.
Mayor-elect de Blasio, however, has opposed virtually every key element of welfare reform: