…is an interesting measure, because AFDC and TANF benefits were and are less than the poverty line. The programs were designed to prevent deep poverty without allowing the poor to…

…assistance programs such as Medicaid and CHIP health Insurance programs, the federal earned income tax credit (EITC), food stamps (SNAP), basic household income assistance (TANF), the national school lunch program,…

…rate and welfare reform because AFDC and TANF benefits don’t get families over the line. But once you include SNAP it is very hard to not get over $2 a…

…many recipients. The rule was part of the 1996 welfare reform which didn’t just convert AFDC to TANF but also restricted food stamp eligibility. Who wants to tell me again…

…part of federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), gives a maximum of just $170 a month to a family of three. These applicants had applied hoping to get at…

…word refers to TANF which is an even tinier share of the US Federal budget. I believe much more goes to the working poor through the EITC. I believe that…

…restrictions on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), and the school lunch program. SUSTAIN…

…not just a return from TANF back to AFDC but much broader and more generous than that. The logic is exactly the same as the logic of the current US…

…TANF now are key illustrations. On the other hand, there is anger at benefits going to rich people totally out of proportion with the cost in dollars. This is one…

…to cut foreign aid (redistributing away from them) and the passionate hatred of the long ago AFDC program (changed to TANF and basically allowed ot whither to almost nothing). Oh…