Posted at https://talkpoverty.org/2016/08/22/rep-doggett-time-fix-broken-welfare-system/ August 22, 2016 | Representative Lloyd Doggett (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) Twenty years ago today, legislation promising to “end welfare as we know it” became law. I voted for that bill, which created a program called Temporary Assistance for Needy … Continued
Posted at http://www.chn.org/2016/08/25/next-reform-welfare-reform/#.V78bEPkrIdU By Deborah Weinstein August 25, 2016 Editor’s note: This Letter to the Editor originally appeared in the Washington Post on August 24. Make sure to also read Debbie’s entry on TANF’s 20th anniversary posted on this blog on August 22. The Aug. … Continued
By: Kate Giammarise Published: August 22, 2016 Twenty years ago today, President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform into law. The sweeping overhaul was meant to move people from welfare to work and to end what critics saw as a cycle … Continued
From the Kairos Center (https://kairoscenter.org/): Monday, August 22nd marks 20 years since Bill Clinton signed the “Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act.” This historic legislation dismantled the United States’ safety net for poor single mothers and children, replacing it … Continued
Posted at http://www.chn.org/2016/08/22/tanf-at-twenty/#.V7xiCfkrIdU By Deborah Weinstein August 22, 2016 Twenty years ago today, President Bill Clinton signed the law that placed a time limit on cash assistance for poor families with children and required some degree of work, job search, or training … Continued
From CLASP (http://www.clasp.org/): Monday, August 22, marks the 20th anniversary of the enactment of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. In an article published by the Sargent Shriver Center for Poverty Law’s Clearinghouse Review, CLASP’s Olivia Golden recalls … Continued
Posted at http://www.chn.org/2016/08/19/13783/#.V7cRuPkrIdU By Linda Meric August 19, 2016 Editor’s note: The following post, first published by the Huffington Post, is co-authored by Lisa Dodson. Dodson is Senior Scientist and Faculty at the Institute for Children, Youth and Family Policy at Brandeis … Continued
By: David Randall and Nichola Groom Updated: August 10, 2016 NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Seeking a yard for her two dogs and proximity to her new government job, Alison Owen set out to buy a home this spring in the … Continued
From Project H.O.M.E. (http://www.projecthome.org): Project HOME has been working with the Pennsylvania Health Access Network, the Housing Alliance of PA, and the PA Health Law Project, to launch the Housing as Health Coalition to bring together the health and housing … Continued
From Community Legal Services Philadelphia (https://clsphila.org/): Community Legal Services has issued a report on the persistent decline in Pennsylvania’s TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) cash assistance caseload. CLS argues that Pennsylvania’s TANF program is not meeting the needs of … Continued