aid to families with dependent children

• Aid to families with dependent children

• 42 CFR 435.110 - Individuals receiving aid to families with dependent children.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 42: Public Health

• Sanctions As Everyday Resistance to Welfare Reform

In supporting welfare reform, a coalition of liberal and conservative advocates for abolishing the long-standing entitlement program for the poor, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, capitalized on and fostered racist and sexist stereotypes of black and brown "welfare queens" living off of the hard work of the white working and middle classes. [...] as O'Connor (2001) argues, the writing of prominent social scientists, both liberal and conservative (Ellwood, 1988; Murray, 1984), legitimized PRWORA's emphasis on individual behavioral change, rather than poverty alleviation, as the solution to welfare dependency that was bred, in their view, by decades of safety-net entitlements.

• Social Justice
• Vol. 35 Nbr. 4, October 2008

• Be the Decider

[Barack Obama]'s big win in Iowa proved that the first viable African American candidate can appeal to white voters. "They said this day would never come," he told the cheering crowd. "You've done what the cynics said you couldn't do. [Hillary Clinton] began her career working for the Children's Defense Fund and has, indeed, championed liberal and feminist causes. She likes to say that she has fought all her life to end child poverty. But her husband's signing of the welfare reform law that did away with Aid to Families with Dependent Children enraged Hillary's former mentor, Marian Wright Edelman, and "made a mockery," in Edelman's words at the time, of Bill Clinton's claim to want to help poor children. [Mike Huckabee] refers to [Romney] as someone who "looks like the guy who laid yo...

• Isthmus; Madison, Wis.
• August 24, 2009

• Poor Enough to Be Eligible? Child Abuse, Neglect, and the Poverty Requirement

An abused or neglected child must be poor to be eligible for federal funds for foster care maintenance payments. The income eligibility criteria forces agency workers to focus on the poverty status of a child's family. Ending the income eligibility for foster care maintenance payments, even if federal funding was not increased, could reallocate funds now wasted on income determinations to the shelter, clothing, and food needs of children in foster care. It would also formally disentangle child welfare from poverty and the now-defunct Aid to Families with Dependent Children standards. This article provides background to difficult empirical questions and to the debate on class in the child welfare system by describing the historical and current entanglement between public assistance and f...

• St. John's Law Review
• Vol. 81 Nbr. 3, July 2007

• Welfare Reform Redux ; Expand Opportunity by Applying '96 Lessons to 76 Programs

Ask Americans what federal spending they most want to cut, and many say "welfare." Sixteen House conservatives introduced a thorough welfare-reform bill March 25. Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, incorporated major parts of the bill in his budget proposal last week. If passed, new reforms promise to save over a trillion dollars within a decade while putting tens of thousands into meaningful jobs. Welfare as we know it encompasses 77 different federal programs. In 1996, Congress pressured President Clinton into signing reforms of the biggest of those, formerly known as Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). Over the next 12 years, caseloads fell from 12.3 million recipients to 3.7 million, and the official poverty rate fell in one decade by more than 10...

• The Washington Times
• April 12, 2011

• Transitions from AFDC to SSI before Welfare Reform

This article examines the interaction between the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) programs in the period before welfare reform (1990 to 1996). It also discusses the potential impact of welfare reform on the interaction between SSI and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which replaced AFDC.

• Social Security Bulletin
• Nbr. 64-1, April 2001

• Race, Place, and Opportunity

Shortly thereafter, the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 sanctioned the creation of a state-funded highway system subsidizing "white flight" from the city, demarcating neighborhoods along racial lines, destroying African American neighborhoods, and transporting jobs out of urban areas.\n Even supposedly universal policies bear the mark of New Deal racial accommodation. Most critically, the unemployment insurance provisions, such as Aid to Families With Dependent Children (AFDC) provisions were designed to ensure local control by sharing costs with the states, which in turn had discretion in setting benefit levels.

• American Prospect, The
• Vol. 19 Nbr. 10, October 2008

• The Effect of Welfare Reform on SSA's Disability Programs: Design of Policy Evaluation and Early Evidence

Recent legislation has affected the populations served by the Social Security Administration's (SSA's) disability programs. The Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996 mandated that persons whose disability determination was based on drug addiction or alcoholism be removed from the Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance rolls. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (later amended by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997) tightened the SSI eligibility criteria for children and converted the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program into a block grant, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. This article describes the design of three related studies evaluating the direct and indirect effects of these policy changes...

• Social Security Bulletin
• Nbr. 63-1, July 2000

• Pay Is Low, Progress Is Slow; W-2's Goal of Breaking Cycle of Dependency Only Partly Successful

Brenda Pittman a veteran of the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children program as well as the 8-year-old Wisconsin Works welfare reform system barely ekes out a living as a clerk at a central city check-cashing store. A single mother of three and grandmother of two, Pittman, 40, warned her daughters to delay having babies and to stay in school so they wouldn't have to face the hardships she's known.

• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• August 27, 2005

• The working poor and welfare recipiency: participation, evidence, and policy directions.

A study was conducted to analyze the participation rates of the working poor in Food Stamp and Aid to Families with Dependent Children benefits and to determine whether the lack of need is the main attributing factor to nonparticipation. The study's primary source of data is the US Census' Survey of Income and Program Participation which contains detailed information on welfare participation, earnings, income, assets and work behavior. Results revealed that many of the working poor do not receive assistance even if they qualify for these welfare programs.

• Journal of Economic Issues
• Vol. 31 Nbr. 3, September 1997