{"id":413373,"date":"2010-03-10T18:18:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T23:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/murray-amendment-defeat-spells-small-hope-welfare-reform-40656\/"},"modified":"2010-03-10T18:18:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T23:18:53","slug":"murray-amendment-defeat-spells-small-hope-for-welfare-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/413373","title":{"rendered":"Murray Amendment Defeat Spells Small Hope for Welfare Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"
On 03.10.10 12:00 PM posted by Kiki Bradley<\/p>\n

\n<ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pat-murray-d-wa100310.jpg">\"\"<\/p>Yesterday the Senate beat back an amendment offered by Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) to the tax extenders bill that would have continued for another six months a policy aimed at undoing welfare reform.<\/p>\n

The policy was originally created as part of last year\u0092s infamous Stimulus package in the form of the TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) Emergency Fund.* It was supposed to be a \u0093temporary\u0094 measure, however, the President in his 2011 budget and now Congress are actively looking for ways to extend it. This anti-reform fund pays states \u0093bonus\u0094 money for increasing the size of their welfare caseloads without any incentives to place people into jobs and off of the dole. *This fund, if continued, will <ahref="http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Family\/wm2819.cfm">undermine the great successes of the 1996 welfare reform.<spanid="more-28487"><\/span><\/p>\n

<ahref="http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Family\/wm2819.cfm">The 1996 welfare reform law fundamentally changed how welfare worked.* The old system known as Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was an open-ended entitlement that reimbursed states on a per case basis.* Welfare reform ended this practice and instead put in place a fixed block grant through which states received the same amount of funding year to year without regard to the actual size of their caseload.* In addition, states were required to have at least 50 percent of their caseload engaged in some kind of work or work preparedness activity or else face a fiscal penalty.<\/p>\n

<ahref="http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Welfare\/wm1183.cfm">Because of this reform, millions of families moved out of inter-generational poverty and into self-sufficiency and employment.* Between 1996 and 2009 over 2.8 million families left the welfare rolls.* In addition, the child poverty rate dropped and in particular the black child poverty rate hit historic lows.* Employment for never-married mothers rose rapidly.<\/p>\n

<ahref="http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Welfare\/wm1183.cfm">Unfortunately, since taking office, President Obama has sought to curb this success in the name of \u0093stimulus.\u0094* His 2011 budget requests to continue this program for another year costing $2.5 billion.* Fortunately, Senator Murray\u0092s amendment that would have extended the program for another 6 months was defeated yesterday.* But beware, there are sure to be more attempts in the near future to attach this measure to other legislative vehicles.<\/p>\n

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On 03.10.10 12:00 PM posted by Kiki Bradley <ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pat-murray-d-wa100310.jpg"><\/p>Yesterday the Senate beat back an amendment offered by Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) to the tax extenders bill that would have continued for another six months a policy aimed at undoing welfare reform. The policy was originally created as part of last year\u0092s infamous Stimulus package in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}