Bush Grants Waiver For Wis. Welfare Plan

President Bush last week granted Wisconsin a waiver of federal regulation, thus clearing the way for the state to proceed with a welfare overhaul that would offer incentives for teenagers to work and marry and discourage them from having additional children while on welfare.

Wisconsin's welfare-reform proposal is the first to be approved since the President indicated in his State of the Union that the Administration wanted to ease and expedite the process of granting waivers to states seeking to reform their systems. (See Education Week, Feb. 19, 1992.)

"I am renewing my call to states to come forward with reforms which, like Wisconsin's, replace the assumptions of our current welfare...