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Welfare Reauthorization: Overview of the Issues

Description: In February 2002, the Administration proposed its welfare reauthorization plan. The debate was dominated by controversy over the amount of child care funding and the Administration's proposed changes to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) work participation standards. The final agreement reflects the same child care funding increase that was provided in House-passed welfare reauthorization measures in 2002 and 2003 ($1 billion in additional mandatory child care funding over five year… more
Date: June 8, 2005
Creator: Falk, Gene; Gish, Melinda & Solomon-Fears, Carmen
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Welfare Reauthorization: An Overview of the Issues

Description: In February 2002, the Administration proposed its welfare reauthorization plan. The debate was dominated by controversy over the amount of child care funding and the Administration's proposed changes to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) work participation standards. The final agreement reflects the same child care funding increase that was provided in House-passed welfare reauthorization measures in 2002 and 2003 ($1 billion in additional mandatory child care funding over five year… more
Date: December 22, 2005
Creator: Falk, Gene; Gish, Melinda & Solomon-Fears, Carmen
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Welfare Reauthorization: Overview of the Issues

Description: In February 2002, the Administration proposed its welfare reauthorization plan. The debate was dominated by controversy over the amount of child care funding and the Administration's proposed changes to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) work participation standards. The final agreement reflects the same child care funding increase that was provided in House-passed welfare reauthorization measures in 2002 and 2003 ($1 billion in additional mandatory child care funding over five year… more
Date: June 8, 2005
Creator: Falk, Gene; Gish, Melinda & Solomon-Fears, Carmen
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Welfare Reform Research: What Do We Know About Those Who Leave Welfare?

Description: Cash welfare caseloads have declined 57% since peaking in 1994 at 5.1 million cases, with the largest declines occurring since the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). PRWORA ended the entitlement program of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), and replaced it with a block grant program to the states, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. Unlike AFDC, under TANF most adults are required to work as a con… more
Date: March 13, 2001
Creator: Devere, Christine
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Welfare Reform: TANF Provisions Related to Marriage and Two-Parent Families

Description: 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%).
Date: October 30, 2001
Creator: Falk, Gene & Tauber, Jill
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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TANF Cash Benefits as of January 1, 2004

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Date: September 12, 2005
Creator: Walters, Meredith; Falk, Gene & Burke, Vee
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National Welfare Standard--Problems and Proposals

Description: This report attempts to present some of the factors which must be examined and the issues which must be decided in considering a proposal for national welfare standard, as well as a summary of the arguments which can be made for and against the adoption of national standard.
Date: February 12, 1969
Creator: Fullerton, William D.
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Welfare Reauthorization: Overview of the Issues

Description: The 109th Congress is reviewing a number of programs that aid poor and low-income families with children. These programs include the TANF and child care block grants, child support enforcement, abstinence education, transitional Medicaid (known as Transitional Medical Assistance), Head Start, and the Workforce Investment Act. Other potential policy initiatives, such as social security and tax reform, also would likely affect low-income families with children. This report focuses on programs and… more
Date: September 29, 2005
Creator: Falk, Gene; Gish, Melinda & Solomon-Fears, Carmen
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Child Welfare: FY2013 Budget Request of the President and FY2013 Funding

Description: This report begins with an overview of the purpose for which child welfare funds are appropriated. The report discusses FY2013 appropriations for those programs, including the effect of the automatic spending cuts, know as sequestration.
Date: June 27, 2013
Creator: Stoltzfus, Emilie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Welfare Reform: An Issue Overview

Description: The Bush Administration FY2002 budget blueprint, submitted to Congress February 28, commits the nation to "mobilizing the armies of compassion" to "transform lives," and terms this effort the next bold step of welfare reform. The budget includes tax incentives for charitable donations. Earlier the President created the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives in the White House, fulfilling a campaign promise.
Date: March 15, 2001
Creator: Burke, Vee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Human Services Provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Description: This report discusses provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) for selected human services programs. The selected programs generally are those that provide benefits and services to families with children, though some programs (e.g., the Community Services Block Grant) provide services to other families as well. All of the programs discussed in this report are administered by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Date: February 23, 2009
Creator: Falk, Gene; Lynch, Karen E.; Solomon-Fears, Carmen; Perl, Libby; Richardson, Joe & Spar, Karen
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Welfare Reform: An Issue Overview

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Date: January 16, 2001
Creator: Burke, Vee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Comparison of Proposed Charitable Choice Act of 2001 with Current Charitable Choice Law

Description: This report provides a side-by-side comparison of the charitable choice provisions of H.R. 7 with those of the 1996 welfare reform law (P.L. 104-193) and of later laws that extended charitable choice rules to the Community Services Block Grant Act (P.L. 105-285) and to substance abuse treatment and prevention services under the Public Health Service Act (P.L 106-310 and P.L. 106-554).
Date: June 22, 2001
Creator: Burke, Vee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Welfare Reform: An Issue Overview

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Date: January 7, 2003
Creator: Burke, Vee
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Welfare Reform: An Issue Overview

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Date: March 13, 2003
Creator: Burke, Vee
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Welfare Reform: An Issue Overview

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Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Burke, Vee
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Welfare Reform: An Issue Overview

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Date: April 14, 2003
Creator: Burke, Vee
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Welfare Reform: An Issue Overview

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Date: May 16, 2003
Creator: Burke, Vee
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Welfare Reform: An Issue Overview

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Date: June 9, 2003
Creator: Burke, Vee
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Welfare Reform: An Issue Overview

Description: The decline is TANF rolls has slowed to a near halt (see Figure 1). National numbers in September were only 73,000 below those of a year before. However, TANF enrollment topped that of September 2001 in several states (including New York, which has moved into a state-funded safety net program more than 40,000 families after they reached the 5-year federal time limit). Persons now enrolled include rising proportions of minorities, and 37% of TANF “families” now have no adult recipient (child-onl… more
Date: June 16, 2003
Creator: Burke, Vee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Welfare Reform: An Issue Overview

Description: On June 30, the scheduled expiration of TANF, a bill was presented to the President to extend TANF, supplemental TANF grants, mandatory child care, abstinence education, and transitional medical assistance (TMA) for another quarter, through September 30, 2003. The Welfare Reform Extension Act (H.R. 2350), which passed the House on June 11, was held at the Senate desk until June 27, when it was passed by unanimous consent. It was uncertain when the Senate Finance Committee would mark up a compre… more
Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: Burke, Vee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Welfare Reform: An Issue Overview

Description: On July 22, as preparations continued for Senate Finance markup of a bill to reauthorize TANF, a bipartisan bill was introduced by Democratic former governors from Delaware and Nebraska and a Maine Republican. S.1443 would boost mandatory child care funding by $5.5 billion over 5 years and provide numerous special grants. It would increase work participation standards and lengthen the TANF work week (to 32 hours) for those without a child under 6, but give prorated credit for part-time work. On… more
Date: July 28, 2003
Creator: Burke, Vee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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