Dad2three
Gold Member
Opposition to public housing is a policy? lol
Gun rights a policy?
Cold war policies? Oh you mean the policy the Dems started and followed from 1945-FORWARD? Nah, communism IS/WAS a failed policy dummy, USSR is gone, but Putin/Russia ARE still there!
ONE policy you did name :
The Failure Of Welfare Reform Hits New Records
The percentage of poor families with children, those meant to be the primary beneficiaries of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF, or welfare), who don’t receive benefits has reached a record high, according to a report from Legal Momentum.
In 1996, just 28 percent of poor families with children missed out on the benefits. But that share has since soared, and in 2012 it hit a record of 74 percent.
1996 is the year President Clinton signed welfare reform into law, dramatically transforming the program. It changed from cost-sharing model, where the federal government’s contribution to fund state welfare programs increased as need increased, to a block grant, in which the government now gives states a fixed amount and they have wider discretion over how to design their programs. That amount hasn’t changed since the reforms took place, losing 30 percent of its value to inflation. Meanwhile, states have used their latitude to redirect much of the funding and took actions to shrink welfare rolls in the face of budget shortfalls.
The 1990s reforms have hampered the program from rising to meet Americans’ needs. While the number of poor families initially declined, it started increasing again in 2000 and has been growing, yet fewer and fewer families can rely on welfare to help them get by when they fall into poverty. “Over the last 16 years, the national TANF caseload has declined by 60 percent, even as poverty and deep poverty have worsened,” notes the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
The Failure Of Welfare Reform Hits New Records
Welfare reform has increased the financial incentives for state governments to promote movement by recipients of assistance from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families to the Supplemental Security Income program. Trends in TANF benefits show an increase in the gain for recipients from doing so.
Disability, Welfare Reform, and Supplemental Security Income
For both states and the individuals involved, it is generally financially advantageous for adults and children with disabilities to transfer from TANF to SSI. States gain because the federal government pays for the SSI benefit, and states can then use the TANF savings for other purposes. The families gain because the SSI benefits they acquire are greater than the TANF benefits they lose. The payoff to states from transferring welfare recipients to SSI was substantially increased when Congress replaced AFDC with TANF in 1996. States retained less than half of any savings achieved through such transfers under AFDC, but they retain all of the savings under TANF. Also, the work participation requirements under TANF have obligated states to address the work support needs of adults with disabilities who remain in TANF, and states can avoid these costs if adults have disabilities that satisfy SSI eligibility requirements. The incentive for TANF recipients to apply for SSI has increased over time as inflation has caused real TANF benefits to fall relative to payments received by SSI recipients.
The TANF/SSI Connection
AGAIN, ONE POLICY CONS HAVE GIVEN US, THAT HAS WORKED OR BEEN ON THE CORRECT SIDE OF US HISTORY???
