Welfare/Income Support - More News
2005
WashPost: GOP Leaders Agree to $41.6 Billion Spending Cut (12/19/05) The NewStandard: Proposed Welfare Overhaul Targets Single Moms, Kids (12/12/05) HNR: House and Senate to Attempt Passing a Final Bill Cutting Aid to Poor (12/9/05) Portland (Me) Press Herald: Tougher Plan for Welfare is Slammed (12/6/05) WashPost: House Bill Raises Welfare Work Requirement (11/27/05) NYTimes: GOP Forces $50 Billion in Budget Cuts Through House (11/18/05) HNR: House Leadership Can't Dig Up Votes to Slash Medicaid, Child Support, Food Stamps, SSI, and Foster Care (11/11/05) WashPost: Food Stamp and Other Cuts on Table (11/3/05) HNR: House Committees Slash Medicaid, Child Support, SSI and Foster Care; Reduce Planned Increases for Child Care (10/28/05) HNR: Senate Budget Committee Approves Nearly $40 Billion in Cuts to Entitlement Program (10/28/05) WashPost: Republicans Cut Student Aid; Foster Care; Child Support and Other Programs (10/26/05) HNR: House Presses for Even Larger Cuts to Low-Income Services (10/14/05) HNR: Low-Income Programs Threatened with Across-the-Board Cuts (10/14/05) USAToday: Evacuee Benefits Differ by State (10/10/05) HNR: Hurricane Victims Needing Help Encounter Red Tape, Courtesy of White House, Congress (9/30/05) HNR: Washington Focuses on Aiding Gulf Coast Victims (9/16/05) HNR: Reconciliation Delayed: Congress Puts Off Cuts to Food Stamps and Medicaid (9/16/05) WashPost Op-Ed: The Lagging Poor (9/6/05) The NewStandard: Debate Over Welfare Reform Reveals Cracks in System (8/16/05) WP Op-Ed: In Defense of Success: Government Really Can Lessen Poverty (7/19/05) HNR: Senate Appropriators Cut Census Survey of Income, Poverty Data (7/1/05) HNR: TANF Extended for the 10th Time (7/1/05) HNR: Bill Funding Departments of Labor, HHS, and Education Moves in House (6/17/05) NYTimes: Child Care a Focus in Welfare Overhaul (5/31/05) HNR: Reconciliation Instructions Put Human Needs Programs at Risk (5/20/05) HNR: Congress Approves a Final Budget Resolution (4/29/05) HNR: Senate Subcommittee Looks at Early Childhood Programs (4/29/05) HNR: Budget Politics Intrude on TANF (4/15/05) HNR: Budget Conference Committee to Contemplate Deep Cuts to Human Needs Programs (4/15/05) WP: As Teen Pregnancy Dropped, So Did Child Poverty (4/14/05) HNR: TANF on the Senate Floor? Maybe (4/1/05) HNR: FY 2006 Budget Resolutions Clear House, Senate Floor (4/1/05) HNR: House and Senate Committees Pass Budget Resolutions for FY 2006 (3/11/05) HNR: TANF Bill Moving (2/25/05) HNR: Deep Cuts in the President's Budget; Committees Ready to Act (2/25/05) C-SNAP Testimony: New Welfare Work Requirement Will Put Children at Risk (2/10/05) HNR: House TANF Bill Introduced; Hearing Planned (2/4/05) NYTimes: One More "Moral Value": Fighting Poverty (1/30/05)
2004
Nation: Working and Poor in the USA (12/17/04) LATimes: The Poor Have More Things Today, Including Wild Income Swings (12/12/04) WP Op-Ed: Holes in Welfare Reform (12/2/04) HNR: Congress Passes Massive Spending Bill (11/24/04) HNR: TANF Extended for Six Months (10/1/04) WP: Poverty Up as Welfare Enrollment Declines (9/26/04) HNR: Human Needs Legislation Stuck in Gridlock (9/17/04) HNR: Congress Unlikely to Complete Appropriations Before Adjournment (9/17/04) HNR: House Committee Approves Bill Funding Departments of Labor, HHS and Education (7/16/04) HNR: Yet Again - TANF Extended (7/2/04) HNR: Senate TANF Debate Starts With Vote For Child Care Funding; Bill Then Stalls (4/9/04) HNR: TANF Bill to Hit Senate Floor Next Week (3/26/04) HNR: TANF Extension Bill in House Threatens Increase in Work With No Resources (3/4/04) CHN Releases Analysis of President's Budget (3/4/04)
2003
HNR: TANF Bill Moves....Slowly (10/10/03) HNR: Action Needed to Preserve SSBG Funding Restoration (10/10/03) HNR: TANF Assistance to be Extended (9/26/03) HNR: TANF Bonus Funds Distributed to States (9/26/03) HNR: More Americans Living in Poverty (9/26/03) HNR: Senate Finance Committee Approves TANF Reauthorization (9/12/03) HNR: Charitable Giving Act Moves Forward in the House Without SSBG Funding (9/12/03) HNR: Chairman Grassley Floats A TANF Reauthorization Outline (7/18/03) HNR: House Passes Welfare Reauthorization Measure (2/14/03) HNR: Senate Proposes Sept. TANF Extension, House GOP Push Accelerated Reauthorization (1/31/03) HNR: President Bush Re-Introduces Welfare Plan (1/17/03) => Back to Welfare Main Page
