Tanf
Syma Mian
PLSI 560
5/24/2006
Prof. Leveen.
FINAL EXAM
(1) TANF has been scheduled for reauthorization since 2002, but major disagreements about how to strengthen the program prevented Congress from adopting new legislation until this spring. Based on the evidence we have reviewed in class, what would you have recommended? What do you think is needed to make TANF more effective?
In 1996 Congress and President Clinton passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) ending sixty years of federal entitlement. The reforms under PRWORA greatly changed the nature of welfare. The largest and most important change was the termination of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). AFDC was a federal entitlement, meaning that anyone who satisfied eligibility requirements was entitled to receive aid (Schiller 2004). According to Schiller, the amount spent on welfare was unable to be anticipated since it depended on the "flow of welfare......
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