Does welfare work? In this 2016 Minnesota Public Radio segment, scholars Kathryn Edin, Ph.D., sociology professor at Johns Hopkins University, and Ron Haskins, Ph.D., senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, provide insights into the 20-year history of welfare policy and welfare reform in the U.S. since the signing of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. They also discuss the state of poverty in the U.S.