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Born in Arkansas in 1946, Bill Clinton was elected in 1992 as the 42nd President of the United States. A Democrat, Clinton is largely associated with centrist policies that sought to fuel economic growth and increase global stability. In The New Jim Crow, Alexander focuses on Clinton’s controversial welfare reform efforts and escalation of the War on Drugs. Alexander argues that Clinton is responsible for increasing the suffering of poor, black, and/or incarcerated people by draining support for social welfare and exaggerating the cruelty of the “tough” approach to criminal justice.
Bill Clinton Quotes in The New Jim Crow
The The New Jim Crow quotes below are all either spoken by Bill Clinton or refer to Bill Clinton. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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During Clinton's tenure, Washington slashed funding for public housing by $17 billion (a reduction of 61 percent) and boosted corrections by $19 billion (an increase of 171 percent), “effectively making the construction of prisons the nation's main housing program for the urban poor.”
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Bill Clinton Quotes in The New Jim Crow
The The New Jim Crow quotes below are all either spoken by Bill Clinton or refer to Bill Clinton. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
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During Clinton's tenure, Washington slashed funding for public housing by $17 billion (a reduction of 61 percent) and boosted corrections by $19 billion (an increase of 171 percent), “effectively making the construction of prisons the nation's main housing program for the urban poor.”
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