As a kid growing up, my mom need some money to pay for gas back and forth from work. She had a hard time paying the apartment, we lived in Bay City, Michigan. She had a hard time paying for food for us kids until the next pay check which was the upcoming Friday. My family had enough food to last us until then and we would usually eat the leftovers from the night before or we would make sandwiches for our lunch. While, I have felt the need, I never experienced the level of need that people using TANF have to deal with. TANF is Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, which is a program that first began in order to help single parent families in extreme poverty. The topic of poverty in the United States is a well-know issue and should be considered
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TANF was to block grant through the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. TANF was created to replace the Aid to Families with Dependent Children or AFDC, which was a program to help poor families with children since 1935. In order TANF to receive federal government funds, states have to spend some of their money on programs for needy families, if the state does not provide a program needy families then they will serve fiscal penalties. TANF provides temporary financial assistance for pregnant women and families with one or more dependent children. TANF also provides child care, education and job training, transportation, aid to children at risk of abuse and neglect, income assistance, and other services that will help low-income …show more content…
One of TANF strengths is “the spread of single-parent families has stopped,” which means the mother is raising the child in a couple relationship. Since March of 1997, the number of single parent families has been cut in half. Another strength is the positive impact on single mothers, due mix of a job market that allows single mothers to work, combined with welfare reform, as state, “experience and earnings rise, the less likely a woman is to slide back to welfare.” However one of the TANF weaknesses is that the federal funding is not keeping up with inflation. Since the program’s establishment, the number of money for grant is not keeping up with inflation because it lost one-third of its value and the growth is significantly weaker over time as a tool to prevent families against poverty. In 1996 there were more than 8 in 10 families with children under the poverty line that are helped by TANF, and today it is one in three families that are helped. “Wyoming provides a stark example with only four percent of children in poor families, receiving TANF in state.” (Boteach, Rebecca Vallas and Melissa. TANF has four main future goals, one of those future goals are to provide assistance for needy families so that way there children can be cared under their own homes or in a family relatives house. The second future goal is to end the dependence of needy parents on government benefits by promoting preparation, work, and
TANF was to block grant through the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. TANF was created to replace the Aid to Families with Dependent Children or AFDC, which was a program to help poor families with children since 1935. In order TANF to receive federal government funds, states have to spend some of their money on programs for needy families, if the state does not provide a program needy families then they will serve fiscal penalties. TANF provides temporary financial assistance for pregnant women and families with one or more dependent children. TANF also provides child care, education and job training, transportation, aid to children at risk of abuse and neglect, income assistance, and other services that will help low-income …show more content…
One of TANF strengths is “the spread of single-parent families has stopped,” which means the mother is raising the child in a couple relationship. Since March of 1997, the number of single parent families has been cut in half. Another strength is the positive impact on single mothers, due mix of a job market that allows single mothers to work, combined with welfare reform, as state, “experience and earnings rise, the less likely a woman is to slide back to welfare.” However one of the TANF weaknesses is that the federal funding is not keeping up with inflation. Since the program’s establishment, the number of money for grant is not keeping up with inflation because it lost one-third of its value and the growth is significantly weaker over time as a tool to prevent families against poverty. In 1996 there were more than 8 in 10 families with children under the poverty line that are helped by TANF, and today it is one in three families that are helped. “Wyoming provides a stark example with only four percent of children in poor families, receiving TANF in state.” (Boteach, Rebecca Vallas and Melissa. TANF has four main future goals, one of those future goals are to provide assistance for needy families so that way there children can be cared under their own homes or in a family relatives house. The second future goal is to end the dependence of needy parents on government benefits by promoting preparation, work, and