NCSL senior fellow Jack Tweedie, one of the nation's leading experts on welfare reform, died.

• Position: People & Politics - National Conference of State Legislatures - Brief article - Obituary

NCSL SENIOR FELLOW JACK TWEEDIE, ONE OF THE NATION'S LEADING EXPERTS ON WELFARE REFORM, DIED in January after a long battle with cancer. Jack came to NCSL in 1995 to work on welfare and social services policy from the University of Denver, where he was a lecturer and visiting scholar in the political science department. He received both his law degree and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and had authored a major study on racial and sexual discrimination in the construction industry for the governor of New York. When states pioneered welfare reform in the 1990s, and Congress later followed their lead, Jack crisscrossed the country hundreds of...