Social workers told a subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee that work requirements in the Temporary Aid for Need Families (TANF) program doesn’t fully capture everything a client is doing to pull themselves out of poverty. “You can job search for 86 hours in a month, but it doesn’t measure what the customer…
Republicans Reexamining Work Rules in Clinton-Era Assistance Program
March 30, 2023
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Men, Work, and Family
Commentary Work and family are inextricably linked. Both are in deep trouble. COVID and the policy response to it—lockdowns and large stimulus payments—reduced the workforce. It raised the income and savings of those economically in the lower half of society. It increased the mismatch between the supply of workers and employers’ demand for them. Well before…
House Democrats’ Secure Inclusion of Four Weeks’ Paid Medical and Family Leave in Spending Bill
House Democrats’ have secured the inclusion of four weeks’ of federal paid medical and family leave in their $1.75 trillion compromise reconciliation bill, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.) announced Nov. 3. In a statement, the Massachusetts Democrat said the “historic” provisions had both been included as a part of the Build Back Better Act, as…
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