Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

Should be Required to Pass a Drug Tests Public assistance is granted to those in a time of need. A time of need is normally thought of as situational or temporary. The need can be due to, but not limited to, a job loss, temporary illness, or the death of a financial provider. Public assistance can be in many forms; such as, food stamps, medical/dental/prescription coverage, housing allowance, education vouchers for their children, daycare assistance, disability, free transportation and…

Introduction: In 1996, the U.S national welfare system switched from the idea of welfare as an entitlement program, to welfare as a time limit- work based concept. Through the implementation of The Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), previous federal programs were replaced by block grants. This modern policy complicates the opportunity to gain a higher education and income for mothers on welfare. This study focuses on 64 mothers on welfare participating in CalWORKS. The program allows an adult…

The policy that I’m reviewing is the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, it was enforced in 1975. WIC was established from the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. The purpose of WIC is to support low-income families that consist of new mothers with infants or children ages five and younger. This program provides nutritious education and supplement foods to enrich children's lives and promotes healthy habits. WIC has a crucial position in reconstructing health in women’s, infants, and children’s…

myself and our oldest son. When I started back to college, a choice was made to use my extra time (family time) to complete my assignments. This trade-off was and is still hard. If I don’t maintain my focus, I will not meet the weekly deadlines established by Bethel University’s On-line platform. I’ve completed thirty-three hours in my program of choice. My time is valuable to me. My family and I have given up a lot of it to…

Programs like Medicaid, Women, Infant, and Children (WIC), and Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) were created to reduce the negative impact that poverty has on families (History of United States Welfare Programs, n.d.). The Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) gives single mothers the opportunity to live a stable life without going to work. Several years later AFDC was changed to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Yet, we see that even with this change,…

poverty rate was 13.5 percent in 2015, which is 43.1 million people living in poverty within the United States (Proctor et. al, USCB, 2016). Research has shown that there are three main causes of poverty in the United States; the economy, changes in family composition, and government spending (TFOC, Princeton University, 2007). The United States is one of the most developed countries in the world yet poverty continues to be a very serious problem. Consistent employment in the United States is…

welfare is temporary assistance program for needy families Known as TANF. Section 8 and Medicaid is also a program that goes along with these programs. These programs are very helpful to most families who can’t afford much for their family. Supplemental nutrition assistance provides food benefits to individuals and also with in the eligibility criteria. This is one program that helps people who need food that can’t afford food, but the amount that is distributed to individuals and families are…

life style and temporary side step during a time of hardship for others. Welfare is used by all races and has been around for centuries and still active right to this day. The controversy is this: A lot of people dislike the thought of welfare as a whole…

upon us,” in hopes of creating the fundamental standards of a nation that stands for righteous living, and one that values the troubles of their citizens.With this in mind, the thought of thousands living in poverty with little to no government assistance is quite astonishing. Barbara Ehrenreich, a widely read author, addressed in her entry “How We Cured ‘The Culture of Poverty,’ Not Poverty Itself,” that public policies were being created to “cure, not poverty, but the 'culture of poverty’”…

various means of assistance from not only the federal government, but from state legislature as well. However, as part of a recently formed Congressional Committee, I am faced with the decision of choosing to eliminate one of three vital welfare programs due to their being no option for reconstruction of any one of these programs. Options at hand for removal include Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program…