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Obama Executive order ends Welfare Reform as we know it!
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 5705736:MV8xOTIzOTU2XzMyMjEyNjUzX0ZDNDQ3QjIy] [quote:Anonymous Coward 5705736:MV8xOTIzOTU2XzMyMjEyNjMyX0REMTlFQzMy] Welcome to 3rd world America and in the meantime, I have to sit home, wait for my temp employer to call and see if anything is gonna change at work. Laid off for how long,unknown,and so I'm collecting unemployment, applying to every damn job I can think of, even the Mickey'ds shit and no responses. (seems the employers nowadays don't wanna talk to you if you're unemployed) Not my fault. work got slow. And all i get is this measly $40.00/mnth in foodstamps. I'd rather work but shit, nothing happening and no phone calls. [/quote] P.S. I like working and feeling useful. [/quote]
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This afternoon, President Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an official policy directive undermining the welfare reform law of 1996. The new policy guts the federal work requirements that have been the foundation of that law — one of the most successful domestic policy reforms in the 20th century.
Welfare reform replaced the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children with a new program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The underlying concept of welfare reform was that able-bodied adults should be required to work or prepare for work as a condition of receiving welfare aid.
The welfare reform law was very successful. In the four decades prior to welfare reform, the welfare caseload never experienced a significant decline. But, in the four years after welfare reform, the caseload dropped by nearly half. Employment surged and child poverty among blacks and single mothers plummeted to historic lows. What was the catalyst for these improvements? Rigorous new federal work requirements contained in TANF.
Contrary to some perceptions, the formula that made welfare reform a success was not giving state governments more flexibility in operating federally funded welfare programs. The active ingredient that made the difference was requiring state governments to implement those rigorous new federal work standards.
Today the Obama administration issued a dramatic new directive stating that the traditional TANF work requirements will be waived or overridden by a legal device called a section 1115 waiver authority under the Social Security law (42 U.S.C. 1315).
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