Federal welfare reform signed into law by President Clinton in 1996 (commonly called PRWORA) imposed stricter eligibility rules, required welfare recipients to be engaged in work or educational activities, and limited benefits to 24 consecutive months with a lifetime cap of 60 months. From 1996 - 2000, welfare caseloads were reduced dramatically. Although there is support for attributing this reduction to the new PRWORA rules, the effects of PRWORA on work incentives is hard to measure in part because the US economy experienced a tremendous boom during this time, Multiple choice question. which generated so much tax revenue that the federal government allowed states to ignore the PRWORA regulations. which tainted the data because greater worker mobility limited the degree to which the government could track people in the welfare system. which drew people into the labor force and would have significantly reduced caseloads with or without welfare reform