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2010
Center for American Progress: Congress Should Pass Key Children's Legislation During the Lame Duck Session (11/18/10) CHN: Issues to be Resolved in the Lame Duck Session (11/4/10) HNR: Senate Passes 1-Year Extension of TANF But No Action on TANF Emergency Fund or Child Support Funding (11/29/10) Children’s Advocates Write to Congress About Urgent Children’s Economic Security Needs (11/16/10) HNR: Congress Lets Successful Job Creation Program Expire (10/5/10) HNR: Congress Enacts Measure to Avert a Government Shutdown (10/5/10) CBPP: Walking Away From a Win-Win-Win (9/2/10) CHN issues letter to House in strong support of the TANF Emergency Fund extension, expected to be part of the American Jobs, Closing Tax Loopholes and Preventing Outsourcing Act (H.R. 4213) (5/20/10)
2008
HNR: More Access to Education Possible Under TANF Final Rule (2/15/08)
2007
CHN: Testimony on TANF & Family Income Support (3/20/07)
2006
CBPP: TANF At 10: Program Results are More Mixed Than Often Understood (8/17/06) Washington Post: Welfare Changes a Burden to States (8/7/06) CBPP and CLASP: Analsis of New Interim Final TANF Rules (7/21/06) CEPR: Welfare-To-Nothing (7/10/06) HNR: New Regulations Issued for Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (7/6/06) Federal Register: Reauthorization of the TANF; Interim Final Rule (6/29/06) CBPP Statement: The New TANF Regulations Issued Today By the Department of Health and Human Services (6/28/06) Center for Public Integrity: Few States Claiming TANF Money for Katrina Victims (3/8/06) HNR: House Cuts $38.8 Billion from Budget; Slashes Health Care, Student Loans, Child Support and Help for People with Disabilities (2/3/06)
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: Welfare Reform Doesn't Belong In Budget Bill (12/6/05) Portland (Me) Press Herald: Tougher Plan for Welfare is Slammed (12/6/05) Buffalo News: Don''t Hide House Changes as Part of Effort to Slip It by Americans (12/4/05) Tennessean: Proposed Welfare Cuts Demand A Full Debate (12/3/05) Orlando Sentinel: The House Is Being Sneaky and Cheap on Welfare Reform Changes (12/1/05) The Virginian-Pilot: Welfare Reform By Dark of Night (11/29/05) WashPost: House Bill Raises Welfare Work Requirement (11/27/05) Sacremento Bee: GOP's Attack on the Poor: Three Northern Californians Lead the Charge (11/18/05) 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) 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 (10/25/05) WashPost: Republicans Cut Student Aid; Foster Care; Child Support and Other Programs (10/26/05) WashPost: House GOP Leaders Postpone Vote on Reductions in Spending (10/20/05) HNR: House Presses for Even Larger Cuts to Low-Income Services (10/14/05) HNR: House and Senate Fail to Extend Help to Low-Income Medicaid and Medicare Recipients (10/14/05) 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) 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: TANF Extended for the 10th Time (7/1/05) Online Journal: House Proposal Would Make Welfare Moms Graduating This Spring Last of Dying Breed (6/11/05) NYTimes: Child Care a Focus in Welfare Overhaul (5/31/05) HNR: Reconciliation Instructions Put Human Needs Programs at Risk (5/20/05) HNR: Senate Subcommittee Looks at Early Childhood Programs (4/29/05) HNR: Congress Approves a Final Budget Resolution (4/29/05) WP: GOP Leaders Reach Budget Deal (4/28/05) 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) Washington Times: Welfare-Reform Program Led Moms to Wed (4/10/05) HNR: TANF on the Senate Floor? Maybe (4/1/05) HNR: FY 2006 Budget Resolutions Clear House, Senate Floor (4/1/05) HNR: Bipartisan TANF Bill Passes Senate Finance Committee (3/11/05) 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) SouthCoastToday.com (Massachusetts): Single Moms Oppose New Welfare Plan (1/28/05) Boston Globe Op-Ed: Hungry for Data (1/24/05)
2004
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 (9/27/04) HNR: Human Needs Legislation Stuck in Gridlock (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)
2003 HNR: TANF Bill Moves....Slowly (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: 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)
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