Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act
（重定向自PRWORA）
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![President Bill Clinton signing welfare reform legislation.](/Images/godic/202502/05/Clinton_prwora3057.PNG")
![Overall decline in welfare monthly benefits (in 2006 dollars)[22]](/Images/godic/202502/05/Welfare_Benefits_Payments_Graph3057.gif")
![Unemployment rate during the Clinton administration. The orange line indicates when PRWORA was signed.](/Images/godic/202502/05/Unemployment-rate-before-after-1996-welfare-reform3057.png")
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) is a United States federal law considered to be a major welfare reform. The bill was a cornerstone of the Republican Contract with America and was introduced by Rep. E. Clay Shaw, Jr. (R-FL-22). President Bill Clinton signed PRWORA into law on August 22, 1996, fulfilling his 1992 campaign promise to "end welfare as we have come to know it".