Size of cash and near-cash transfer programmes (unemployment benefits, means-tested assistance, universal child benefits). Architecturally distinct from forced-saving schemes — see condition welfare_architecture.
Ease of hiring/firing, collective-bargaining scope, minimum wage rigidity, temporary/permanent contract regulation.
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 22 August 1996, signed by President Clinton, replaced the entitlement-based Aid to Families with Dependent Children with the block-granted Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), imposed a five-year lifetime benefit limit, required state work-participation rates, restricted legal-immigrant access to federal means-tested benefits, and changed the Food Stamp programme work rules. The intended effect was to "end welfare as we know it" (Clinton 1992 pledge), replace open-ended cash assistance with time-limited work-conditional support, and devolve administration to states.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.