Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

is Dead” to talk about the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. The AFDC was a sixty-year-old program that provided cash assistance to families with children, implemented up until 1996 when it was replaced with the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program. The program first began in 1935 during the midst of the Great Depression. Back then, people had access to the program just by proving they were in need of economic assistance. There were no time limits…

the hierarchy of gender, men have always dominated women. Their advantages in the workforce is often greater than women despite education level, hours, and career. More specifically, in the words of a University of Illinois assistant professor of families studies, Karen Karmer, “Single mothers earn about two-thirds of what a single father would make” (College of ACES). As single fathers do make more than single mothers, this puts single mother in a position where raising a child alone is…

Homeless trespassing was an issue that Luis Moctezuma, a pastor of the Huntington Park Mision Evangelica church, and I spoke about few weeks ago. He mentioned homeless people trespassed into the church when no one was around. His was concerned that they were going to destroy the outside of the church. Moreover, they were not going to respect the church and do malicious acts such as drinking alcohol in the backyard. No reports were made because he did not have any evidence of the incidence. Since…

1935 Social Security Act to state and local government to assist them and families with dependent children. The Aid to Dependent Children program also known as the mothers’ pension, mothers’ aid and mothers’ assistance program which provided economic aid to families who were poverty-stricken due to lack of a father 's support. The program was focused toward families headed by single women to be able to afford the basic family needs and to stay at home to care for their children in lieu of…

DuCanto in the American Journal of Family Law. (Delinquent Child Support- Making a Federal Case, p. 138). Many of these fathers are therefore scrutinized and labeled as “deadbeat dads” when in reality all they are, are “dead broke dads,” as coined by Blane Hardenjan in “Dead Broke Dads’ Child…

Problem Solution Selection The independence of the single mother will set the tone for how her children from a divorced family will be raised, educated, and overall value of life. When the mother chooses to be more than just an divorced mother, she will make better choice as to how to raise her children and lead her family after the divorce whether the father has a heavy presence or not. There are several state and local government, corporations, colleges and universities, and other non-profit…

In the United States, many families and their children are going hungry and some are losing their homes due to many factors including; lack of support from our government, flaws of the welfare system and social misconceptions of the poor in general. We will discuss some of the causes and possible solutions to America's poverty issues that often tend to get overlooked. First, priority shifts in government assistance have affected several homeless families and the resources available to them.…

those who find themselves there. The Federal government has established many programs to assist those in poverty. According to the Congressional Digest (2009) the federal government funds the following programs: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), School Meal Programs, The School Breakfast Program (SPB), Special Milk Program, Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Earned Income Tax Credit…

There are programs like Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF). This program says that people receiving aid should actively look for work, work a minimum of 6 hours per day, and only receive funds for a limited time period. The problem is that for every dollar the person earns, a dollar is…

Transaction: Yamile is going through multiple transitions in her the life specifically with her recent separation from her husband, her impending status of becoming a grandmother, separation from her family, maturing into middle adulthood, and moving to another country to better provide for her family. The capacity to manage these multiple stressors is overwhelming for Yamile and contributing to her feelings of vulnerability amid all the transitions. Client Strengths and Strategies for…