Temporary Assistance For Needy Families - Human Needs Report Archives
2008
More Access to Education Possible Under TANF Final Rule (2/15/08)
2006
New Regulations Issued for Temporary Assistance to Needy Families(7/06/06) House Cuts $38.8 Billion from Budget; Slashes Health Care, Student Loans, Child Support and Help for People with Disabilities (2/3/06)
2005
House and Senate to Attempt Passing a Final Bill Cutting Aid to Poor (12/9/05) House Leadership Can't Dig Up Votes to Slash Medicaid, Child Support, Food Stamps, SSI, and Foster Care (11/11/05) House Committees Slash Medicaid, Child Support, SSI and Foster Care; Reduce Planned Increases for Child Care (10/28/05) Senate Budget Committee Approves Nearly $40 Billion in Cuts to Entitlement Programs (10/28/05) Congress Enacts Legislation to Extend Medicare Premium Subsidies and Transitional Medicaid (10/28/05) House Presses for Even Larger Cuts to Low-Income Services (10/14/05) Hurricane Victims Needing Help Encounter Red Tape, Courtesy of Congress, White House (9/30/05) Washington Focuses on Aiding Gulf Coast Families (9/16/05) Reconciliation Delayed: Congress Puts Off Cuts to Medicaid and Food Stamps in Wake of Katrina (9/16/05) TANF Extended for the 10th Time (7/1/05) Reconciliation Instructions Put Human Needs Programs at Risk (5/20/05) Senate Subcommittee Looks at Early Childhood Programs (4/29/05) Congress Approves a Final Budget Resolution (4/29/05) Budget Conference Committee to Contemplate Deep Cuts to Human Needs Programs (4/15/05) Budget Politics Intrude on TANF (4/15/05) FY 2006 Budget Resolutions Clear House, Senate Floor (4/1/05) TANF on the Senate Floor? Maybe (4/1/05) House and Senate Budget Committees Pass Budget Resolutions for FY 2006 (3/11/05) Bipartisan TANF Bill Passes Senate Finance Committee (3/11/05) TANF Bill Moving (2/25/05) Deep Cuts in President's Budget; Committees Ready to Act (2/25/05) House TANF Bill Introduced; Hearing Planned (2/4/05)
2004
TANF Extended for Six Months (10/1/04) Human Needs Legislation Stuck in Gridlock (9/17/04) Yet Again - TANF Extended (7/2/04) Senate TANF Debate Starts With Strong Bipartisan Vote For Child Care Funding; Bill Then Stalls (4/9/04) TANF Bill to Hit Senate Floor Next Week (3/26/04) TANF Extension Bill Introduced in House: Threatens a Massive Increase in Work With No Resources (3/4/04) CHN Releases Analysis of President's Budget (3/4/04)
2003
TANF Bill Moves....Slowly (10/10/03) TANF Assistance to be Extended (9/26/03) TANF Bonus Funds Distributed to States (9/26/03) More Americans Living in Poverty (9/26/03) Senate Finance Committee Approves TANF Reauthorization (9/12/03) Chairman Grassley Floats A TANF Reauthorization Outline (7/18/03) House Passes Welfare Reauthorization Measure (2/14/03) Senate Proposes September TANF Extension, House Republicans Push for Accelerated Reauthorization (1/31/03) President Bush Re-Introduces Welfare Plan (1/17/03)
2002
Many Programs Benefiting Poor Face Reauthorization in 2003 (11/22/02) TANF Reauthorization Remains Unfinished (10/11/02) TANF Reauthorization Likely to be Postponed (9/27/02) Senators Urge Daschle to Bring Welfare to Senate Floor (9/13/02) Congress Adjourns for Recess Without Addressing TANF (8/2/02) Senate Committee Expected to Mark Up TANF Bill Next Week (6/21/02) Senate Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Low-Wage Workers (5/24/02) Finance Committee Debates Marriage and TANF (5/24/02) TANF Reauthorization Debate Heats Up (5/24/02) Congress Acts on Welfare Reauthorization (5/10/02) House Moves Forward on Welfare Reauthorization (4/26/02) Ways And Means Committee Hears Testimony on TANF (4/15/02) Thompson Defends Bush TANF Plan (4/15/02) Rep. Herger Introduces TANF Reauthorization Bill (4/15/02) Senator Rockefeller Introduces TANF Bill (3/29/02) Congress Holds Hearings On Welfare Reauthorization (3/15/02) President Bush Unveils TANF Reauthorization Agenda (2/28/02)
2001
Senate Finance Committee Approves TANF Supplemental (11/9/01) Representative Mink Introduces TANF Reauthorization Bill (10/26/01)
