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Against AFDC/TANF
AFDC stands for Aid to Families with Dependent Children. TANF; which later replaced AFDC, stands for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. The Family Support Act of 1988 required each state to mandate participation in education by non-exempt custodial parents under age 20 on AFDC who had dropped out of college. It was referred to as workfare. The personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) replaced AFDC with TANF. It required that recipients not be under 18, unmarried, have child under 12 weeks old and does not have a high school diploma unless they are working towards an equivalent.
The bottom line is that according to recent studies, “While evaluations of these initiatives have not found some limited success on certain outcomes, none of these programs produced the s...
AFDC stands for Aid to Families with Dependent Children. TANF; which later replaced AFDC, stands for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. The Family Support Act of 1988 required each state to mandate participation in education by non-exempt custodial parents under age 20 on AFDC who had dropped out of college. It was referred to as workfare. The personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) replaced AFDC with TANF. It required that recipients not be under 18, unmarried, have child under 12 weeks old and does not have a high school diploma unless they are working towards an equivalent.
The bottom line is that according to recent studies, “While evaluations of these initiatives have not found some limited success on certain outcomes, none of these programs produced the s...
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