Temporary Assistance for Needy Families - More Policy Analyses and Research
CLASP: Enacted and Proposed Changes to the Child Support Program (2/9/06) CHN: State Fact Sheets - How Budget Cuts Will Affect Your State (1/13/06) CLASP: The TANF Provisions in the Budget Bill (powerpoint slides) (1/12/06) CBPP: Assessing the Effects of Budget Conference Agreement on Low Income Families (revised 1/9/06) CLASP: TANF Agreement Raises Work Participation by 69 Percent But Funds Only A Fraction of the Costs (revised 12/28/05) CBPP: Budget TANF Provisions Impose New Work Requirements and Will Result in Loss of Child Care (12/18/05) CBPP: Budget Conference Agreement Contains Substainal Cuts Aimed at Low-Income Families (12/18/05) CHN: TANF Has No Place In Budget-Cutting Bill (12/7/05) Missing the Point Entirely - A Misleading Argument for Including TANF in Budget Reconciliation (12/7/05) Brookings: Block Grants: Flexibility Vs. Stability in Social Services (12/6/05) (discusses TANF block grant) CCC: TANF Reauthorization Doesn't Belong in Budget Reconciliation (12/2/05) NWLC: House Welfare Proposal Deprives Low-Income Families of Crucial Child Care Assistance (12/2/05) CBPP: House Budget Bill Contains Highly Flawed TANF Provisions (11/30/05) Housing Assistance Council: State Housing Aid Eases Transition from Welfare to Work (11/29/05) CBPP: An Introduction to TANF (11/22/05) CBPP: House Budget Bill Undermines Goals of Promoting Work and Responsibility (11/8/05) CLASP: Families Will Lose Child Care Under House Ways and Means Committee Welfare Reauthorization Bill (10/31/05) CLASP: Ways and Means Committee Proposes Deep Cuts in Child Support Funding (10/25/05) CBPP: House Ways and Means Committee Proposal Targets Low-Income Programs (10/25/05) CLASP: New TANF Bill Provides Additional Funds for Katrina Relief - Improvements Needed (9/22/05) CLASP: Everybody's Best Interest - Reforming Child Support Distribution Makes Sense for Families and Government (9/16/05) Organizations Respond to Latest Data Showing Growth in Poverty, Uninsurance in 2004 (August 2005) Journal of Poverty Law & Policy: Improving TANF for Teens (8/23/05) Brookings: The Well-Being of Single Mothers After Welfare Reform (8/18/05) MDRC: Turning Welfare Into a Work Support: Six-Year Impacts of the Minnesota Family Investment Program (8/3/05) Annie E Casey: 2005 KIDS COUNT Report Shows Increase in Child Poverty (7/27/05) CBPP: What Does the Safety Net Accomplish? (7/19/05) MDRC: The Effects of Welfare and Employment Policies on Young Children (5/9/05) CLASP: The Child Support Program: An Investment That Works (5/5/05) Urban: How Have Households with Children Fared in the Job Market Downturn (April 2005) (discusses importance of TANF and other supports for those out of work) Nation: Learning Lessons from the Social Security Debate (4/26/05) (Discusses poverty line) CBPP: TANF Reauthorization in 2005 - A Brief Guide to the Issues (4/22/05) CLASP: The Senate's $6 Billion Child Care Provision - a Critical But Modest Investment (4/20/05) CLASP: Administration's TANF Proposal Will NOT Free Up $2 Billion for Child Care (4/15/05) National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy: Declining Teen Birth Rates Contribute to Improvements in Child Well Being (4/14/05) State-by-state data on this study are available here. Congressional Research Service: Side-by-Side Comparison of Current TANF Law with House and Senate Bills (3/29/05) CLASP: Testimony on TANF Reauthorization Before House Subcommittee (3/16/05) CLASP: Testimony on TANF Reauthorization (2/28/05) MDRC: The Interaction of Child Support and TANF (1/27/05) CLASP: TANF Spending in 2003 (1/18/05) CLASP: State-by-State TANF Spending in 2003 Tables (1/18/05)
2004
CBPP: Hunger, Crowding, and Hardship Widespread Among Families in Poverty (12/20/04) CBPP: State Policies to Assist Working-Poor Families (12/10/04) Mathematica: Benefits of Housing Subsidies for TANF Recipients (11/21/04) Brookings: The Challenge of Achieving High Work Participation Rates in Welfare Programs (10/31/04) Welfare Law Center: Manual for Using the ADA to Protect Rights of TANF Recipients (10/22/04) CBPP: Unemployment Insurance Does Not Explain Falling Welfare Caseloads and Rising Poverty (10/12/04) CLASP: Side by Side Comparisons of Fatherhood and Marriage Provisions in HR 4 (10/7/04) CBPP: Online Information About Key Low-Income Benefit Programs in States (9/10/04) NWLC: Child Care Assistance Policies 2001-2004 (September 2004) CLASP: State Policies on Child Support Pass-Through and Disregard for Families on TANF (8/31/04) CHN: Status of Human Needs Program Reauthorization for 108th Congress (8/5/04) CSNAP: Safety Net Has Powerful Impact on Babies' Health (8/5/04) CLASP: Child Support Provisions in Recent TANF Proposals (7/29/04) CHN: Why House TANF Legislation Poses Real Dangers (7/23/04) Ways and Means Committee: Decline in Teen Birth Rate Linked to Decline in Child Poverty (6/14/04) CLASP: Senate Bill Child Support Provisions Would Help Poor Families (5/13/04) CLASP: Proposed TANF Extension Would Pressure States to Cut Caseloads (3/22/04) CLASP: Welfare Caseloads Increase in 27 States Between June and September 2003 (2/17/04) CLASP: Why Congress Should Expand, Not Cut, Access to Long-Term Training in TANF (Feburary 2004) CBPP/CLASP: Budget Cuts Child Care for More Than 300,000 Children (2/25/04) => Back to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Main Page
