Word: bane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mary Jo Bane, one of President Clinton's highest-ranking welfare officials, announced Wednesday that she would step down to protest Clinton's signing of the recent welfare bill, which ended the guarantee of cash assistance to the nation's poorest children...
According to The New York Times, Bane told her colleagues in an e-mail message that her concerns about the welfare bill had "led me to conclude that I cannot continue to serve" as assistant secretary...
Prior to joining the Clinton Administration, Bane served as Weiner Professor of Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, leading to speculation that she might return to Harvard...
...Bane, reached at her home in Washington last night, declined to comment on her future plans...
...Bane has close ties to the Boston area and to the Kennedy School...