…order were DHHS (Medicare, Medicaid, and TANF with $71.4 billion ) and DOL (Unemployment benefits $17.5 billion). DOD is not mentioned in this article presumably because the amount of DOD’s…

…slices so they put medicaid and welfare together as “social programs” (welfare might mean tanf plus food stamps plus suplementary security income) and put foreign aid in with defence. People…

…as AFDC and TANF benefits were and are below the poverty line. If you look at the poverty rate only, you would conclude that no harm was done if people…

…severe poverty and no correspond trend of the headline poverty rate. I think it is clear that this can be explained with two acronyms AFDC and TANF. In 1975 the…

…vouchers, and even a tiny bit of TANF, The standard model of redistribution used by lazy economists is a flat tax which finances an equal grant to all citizens. According…

…any type of progressive or liberal agenda,” It is also true that TANF enrollment has barely increased during the first 16 months of the current recession (warning out of date…

…believe that TANF should be eliminated, but I don’t see how anyone can defend the present system which gives less assistance when there is more need and presses people harder…

…to support it are lying) and AFDC (if you remember what it was and who was President when it became TANF), due process rights and overwhelmingly creationism vs natural selection…

by LaDonna Pavetti Via Jared Bernstein An excerpt from the executive summary blog post Thirty-nine states and the District of Columbia used $1.3 billion from the TANF (Temporary Assistance for…

…key — to be able to say that the Federal welfare entitlement was eliminated, the budget was made a function of time. This is why TANF enrollment didn’t increase during…