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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Block Grant: An Overview
- This report provides a nontechnical introduction to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant. The report briefly describes the history of cash assistance and how the "welfare reform" debates led to the creation of TANF; TANF financing; the TANF cash welfare programs and; other TANF benefits, services, and activities.
- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Block Grant: Issues for the 112th Congress
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: A Primer on TANF Financing and Federal Requirements
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: A Primer on TANF Financing and Federal Requirements
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: A Primer on TANF Financing and Federal Requirements
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: A Primer on TANF Financing and Federal Requirements
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: A Primer on TANF Financing and Federal Requirements
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: A Primer on TANF Financing and Federal Requirements
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: A Primer on TANF Financing and Federal Requirements
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: A Primer on TANF Financing and Federal Requirements
- This report discusses the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant that provides federal grants to the 50 states, the District of Columbia, American Indian tribes, and the territories for a wide range of benefits and activities. This report provides an overview of TANF financing and rules for state programs.
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: FY2007 Budget Proposals
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions
- This report provides responses to frequently asked questions about the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant.
- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions
- This report provides responses to frequently asked questions about the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant. It is intended to serve as a quick reference to provide easy access to information and data
- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions
- The 109th Congress is considering legislation to extend funding and possibly amend the block grant of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), which was created in the 1996 welfare reform law. The original funding authority provided in the 1996 law expired at the end of FY2002. Since then, Congress has inconclusively debated legislation to reauthorize TANF (and some related programs) but has kept the program alive through temporary extensions. The latest such extension is scheduled to expire on September 30, 2005. Reauthorization bills introduced for the 109th Congress (H.R. 240, S. 667) have policies that mirror those of bills considered during the previous three years.
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Characteristics of the Cash Assistance Caseload
- This report examines the TANF cash assistance caseload, focusing on how the composition and characteristics of families receiving assistance have changed over time.
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Eligibility and Benefit Amounts in State TANF Cash Assistance Programs
- This report describes state the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) financial eligibility rules and maximum benefit amounts. The report discusses cash assistance benefit amounts for needy families that are not automatically adjusted for inflation by the states, and have lost considerable value in terms of their purchasing power over time.
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Eligibility and Benefit Amounts in State TANF Cash Assistance Programs
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- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Issues for the 110th Congress
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- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Issues for the 110th Congress
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- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Its Role In Response to the Effects of Hurricane Katrina
- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant provides grants to states to help them fund a wide variety of benefits and services to low-income families with children. TANF is best known as helping fund ongoing cash welfare benefits for families with children, but the block grant may also fund other benefits and services such as emergency payments, child care.
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Size and Characteristics of the Cash Assistance Caseload
- This report examines the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) cash assistance caseload, focusing on how the composition and characteristics of families receiving assistance have changed over time.
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Size and Characteristics of the Cash Assistance Caseload
- This report examines the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) cash assistance caseload, focusing on how the composition and characteristics of families receiving assistance have changed over time.
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Size and Characteristics of the Cash Assistance Caseload
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- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Welfare-to-Work Revisited
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- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Welfare-to-Work Revisited
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- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: Welfare Waivers
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- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: Welfare Waivers
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- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: Welfare Waivers
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- Welfare Reform: TANF Provisions Related to Marriage and Two-Parent Families
- The shrinkage in U.S. family cash welfare rolls has slowed to a near halt, although national numbers still are 50% below those of August, 1996, when Congress created the time-limited and work-conditioned block grant program of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Under TANF, the nature of the caseload has changed. The share of recipients who combine welfare and work has risen sharply (from 11% to 26%).
- Child Welfare and Family Problems: Legislation and Issues in the 97th Congress
- This issue brief contains a discussion of the evolution of existing child and family related social services programs.
- Poverty in the United States: 2008
- This report examines poverty in the United States. In 2008, 39.8 million people were counted as poor in the United States - an increase of 2.6 million persons from 2007, and nearly the largest number of persons counted as poor since 1960. The poverty rate, or percent of the population considered poor under the official definition, was reported at 13.2%; this is up from 12.5% in 2007, and is the highest rate since 1997. The recent increase in poverty reflects the worsening of economic conditions since the onset of the economic recession in December 2007. Many expect poverty to rise further next year, and it will likely remain comparatively high even after the economy begins to recover. The incidence of poverty varies widely across the population according to age, education, labor force attachment, family living arrangements, and area of residence, among other factors.
- Trends in Welfare, Work and the Economic Well-Being of Female-Headed Families with Children: 1987-2000
- "This report examines trends in welfare, work and economic well-being of female headed families with children, the principal group affected by the replacement of AFDC with TANF. The report presents analysis of 14 years of U.S. Census Bureau Current Population Survey (CPS) data, the principal source of information for U.S. family income and poverty statistics (Summary)."
- Welfare, Work, and Poverty Status of Female- Headed Families with Children: 1987-2013
- The report focuses on welfare dependency and work engagement among single mothers, a major dynamic that welfare reform and accompanying policy changes have attempted to affect. It also examines the role of programs other than Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) in providing support to single female-headed families with children.
- Federal Employee Benefits and Same-Sex Partnerships
- This report examines the current policies on the application of benefits to same-sex partners, analyzes the bills currently pending in the 111th Congress, and reviews the policy debate on extending benefits to same-sex partners. This report is about federal benefits for same-sex partners and not about same-sex relationships in general.
- Federal Employee Benefits and Same-Sex Partnerships
- This report examines the current policies on the application of benefits to same-sex partners and reviews the policy debate on extending benefits to same-sex partners. This report is about federal benefits for same-sex partners and not about same-sex relationships in general.
- The Child Care and Development Block Grant: Background and Funding
- This report provides information about the Background and Funding of the Child Care and Development Block Grant.
- Parental Leave: Legislation in the 100th Congress
- The report discusses the argument for why America should set a standard long-term maternity leave and temporary medical disability leave. Then the opposition to this position discusses why maternity leave and medical disability leave should be decided by the employer, not the Federal government.
- Federal Income Tax Treatment of the Family
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- Marriage Penalty Legislation: A Comparison of Alternate Proposals
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