Welfare, not in the state of Texas

[Penelope]

In the state of Texas, there are almost 4 million poor people, by one recent count, but apparently few are penniless enough to meet the Lone Star State’s qualifications for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
To qualify for TANF in Texas, a single caretaker with two children must have less than $1,000 in assets and bring in less than $188 per month
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Texas, one of four states that denied at least 90 percent of its 2020 TANF applicants, had the lowest approval rate in the nation, approving only 7 percent.
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This is former President Bill Clinton’s conservative-appeasing welfare reform in action: Individual states, which were given the power to set their own rules for distributing welfare dollars, denying the poor life-sustaining help by drawing up the rules in a way that excludes most people who need help.

Opinion | How states got away with not spending $5b in aid to the poor

Clinton's welfare reform reduced the number of people on welfare with no corresponding reduction in the number of people who are poor.

www.msnbc.com

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see what I mean, they could care less about the kids once they are born. It's only the fetuses in the womb they pretend like they care about.

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Policy Basics: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

What Is TANF? Congress created the TANF block grant through the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, as part of a federal effort to “end welfare as we...

www.cbpp.org

States also have the flexibility to set their own benefit levels. TANF benefit levels are low and do not enable families to meet their basic needs. In every state, the maximum TANF benefit leaves a family of three below 60 percent of the federal poverty line. In more than one-third of states, it leaves a family of three below just 20 percent of the poverty line. States have not reinvested the savings from the steep caseload declines under TANF in raising benefit levels. In most states, benefits have dropped by at least 20 percent in inflation-adjusted terms since 1996.
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See what I mean, the republicans starve the kids.
Texas is not the worst state.

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

In the state of Texas, there are almost 4 million poor people, by one recent count, but apparently few are penniless enough to meet the Lone Star State’s qualifications for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
To qualify for TANF in Texas, a single caretaker with two children must have less than $1,000 in assets and bring in less than $188 per month
snip
Texas, one of four states that denied at least 90 percent of its 2020 TANF applicants, had the lowest approval rate in the nation, approving only 7 percent.
snip
This is former President Bill Clinton’s conservative-appeasing welfare reform in action: Individual states, which were given the power to set their own rules for distributing welfare dollars, denying the poor life-sustaining help by drawing up the rules in a way that excludes most people who need help.

Opinion | How states got away with not spending $5b in aid to the poor

Clinton's welfare reform reduced the number of people on welfare with no corresponding reduction in the number of people who are poor.

www.msnbc.com

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see what I mean, they could care less about the kids once they are born. It's only the fetuses in the womb they pretend like they care about.

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Policy Basics: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

What Is TANF? Congress created the TANF block grant through the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, as part of a federal effort to “end welfare as we...

www.cbpp.org

States also have the flexibility to set their own benefit levels. TANF benefit levels are low and do not enable families to meet their basic needs. In every state, the maximum TANF benefit leaves a family of three below 60 percent of the federal poverty line. In more than one-third of states, it leaves a family of three below just 20 percent of the poverty line. States have not reinvested the savings from the steep caseload declines under TANF in raising benefit levels. In most states, benefits have dropped by at least 20 percent in inflation-adjusted terms since 1996.
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See what I mean, they just starve the kids.

Hey idiot. Most of them are illegals over the years...lololol

I love your special kind of stoopid there P

 

[Claudette]

Penelope
Plenty of jobs out there all across the country. They need to get off their welfare grabbing asses and get a job.

Good for Texas. All States should follow their lead.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Every state should adopt this.
Especially when there are jobs everywhere.
When it comes to taking care of temporary poor it should be...
1) Family first... before the government kicks in.
2) Community 2nd... local charities, churches etc.
3) The government

Also - Stupid people who can't afford themselves shouldn't be having one kid - let alone 3,4,5

 

[beautress]

In the state of Texas, there are almost 4 million poor people, by one recent count, but apparently few are penniless enough to meet the Lone Star State’s qualifications for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
To qualify for TANF in Texas, a single caretaker with two children must have less than $1,000 in assets and bring in less than $188 per month
snip
Texas, one of four states that denied at least 90 percent of its 2020 TANF applicants, had the lowest approval rate in the nation, approving only 7 percent.
snip
This is former President Bill Clinton’s conservative-appeasing welfare reform in action: Individual states, which were given the power to set their own rules for distributing welfare dollars, denying the poor life-sustaining help by drawing up the rules in a way that excludes most people who need help.

Opinion | How states got away with not spending $5b in aid to the poor

Clinton's welfare reform reduced the number of people on welfare with no corresponding reduction in the number of people who are poor.

www.msnbc.com

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see what I mean, they could care less about the kids once they are born. It's only the fetuses in the womb they pretend like they care about.

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Policy Basics: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

What Is TANF? Congress created the TANF block grant through the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, as part of a federal effort to “end welfare as we...

www.cbpp.org

States also have the flexibility to set their own benefit levels. TANF benefit levels are low and do not enable families to meet their basic needs. In every state, the maximum TANF benefit leaves a family of three below 60 percent of the federal poverty line. In more than one-third of states, it leaves a family of three below just 20 percent of the poverty line. States have not reinvested the savings from the steep caseload declines under TANF in raising benefit levels. In most states, benefits have dropped by at least 20 percent in inflation-adjusted terms since 1996.
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See what I mean, they just starve the kids.

Oh, cute. You Democrats have put over three million welfare cases onto Texas soil in the last 10 years and you're now turning your results into the faults for the trillion dollars Texans antied up to take care of your malice against us through corruption in precincts in other states that you control freaks control?

OH, yeah, baby. Point your long, crooked and vicious fingers at your victims. You're begging for an enemy who will smite you. You better clean up your criminal acts. And you better do it now while you have the chance.

 

[Claudette]

Hellbilly
Not at all. I'm sick of paying freeloaders to sit on their ass at my and every other tax payers expense. I go to work every day and sure had no time off during the Covid adventure. I'm tired of paying for people who make stupid decisions and then expect everyone else to pay for their stupidity.

You should take in some of those welfare bums. Lets see how long it takes you to get rid of them. dumbass.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Hey idiot. Most of them are illegals over the years...lololol

I love your special kind of stoopid there P

Prove it, dumbshit. Show the stats..post the links that show most of the poor in Texas applying for TANF are illegals.
Of course, you can't.

Sadly your kind of stupid ain't special at all.

 

[Hellbilly]

Hellbilly
Not at all. I'm sick of paying freeloaders to sit on their ass at my and every other tax payers expense. I go to work every day and sure had no time off during the Covid adventure. I'm tired of paying for people who make stupid decisions and then expect everyone else to pay for their stupidity.

You should take in some of those welfare bums. Lets see how long it takes you to get rid of them. dumbass.

If businesses would pay a livable wage there wouldn't't be a shortage of workers.
Dumbass.

 

[fncceo]

must have less than $1,000 in assets and bring in less than $188 per month

That seems a bit high to me. I didn't think Texas was that soft.

 

[Coyote]

In the state of Texas, there are almost 4 million poor people, by one recent count, but apparently few are penniless enough to meet the Lone Star State’s qualifications for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
To qualify for TANF in Texas, a single caretaker with two children must have less than $1,000 in assets and bring in less than $188 per month
snip
Texas, one of four states that denied at least 90 percent of its 2020 TANF applicants, had the lowest approval rate in the nation, approving only 7 percent.
snip
This is former President Bill Clinton’s conservative-appeasing welfare reform in action: Individual states, which were given the power to set their own rules for distributing welfare dollars, denying the poor life-sustaining help by drawing up the rules in a way that excludes most people who need help.

Opinion | How states got away with not spending $5b in aid to the poor

Clinton's welfare reform reduced the number of people on welfare with no corresponding reduction in the number of people who are poor.

www.msnbc.com

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see what I mean, they could care less about the kids once they are born. It's only the fetuses in the womb they pretend like they care about.

----------------------------------------

Policy Basics: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

What Is TANF? Congress created the TANF block grant through the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, as part of a federal effort to “end welfare as we...

www.cbpp.org

States also have the flexibility to set their own benefit levels. TANF benefit levels are low and do not enable families to meet their basic needs. In every state, the maximum TANF benefit leaves a family of three below 60 percent of the federal poverty line. In more than one-third of states, it leaves a family of three below just 20 percent of the poverty line. States have not reinvested the savings from the steep caseload declines under TANF in raising benefit levels. In most states, benefits have dropped by at least 20 percent in inflation-adjusted terms since 1996.
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See what I mean, they just starve the kids.

No surprise coming from a state with one of the highest rates of teen pregnancies and lowest numbers of people with health insurance.

 

[fncceo]

one of the highest rates of teen pregnancies

You say that like it's a bad thing ...

 

[Claudette]

Hellbilly
There are jobs all over this county that pay a great wage. Check it out dumbass.

 

[Anomalism]

Are people starving in Texas?

 

[Hellbilly]

Hellbilly
There are jobs all over this county that pay a great wage. Check it out dumbass.

There are also a lot of jobs that don't.

 

[fncceo]

There are also a lot of jobs that don't.

Then, for your own sake, don't take those jobs.

 

[Penelope]

Are people starving in Texas?

Yes they are and the kids.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

There are also a lot of jobs that don't.

That is because they are not supposed to be.
Burger flipper is not a full time job to support a family

 

[Anomalism]

There are also a lot of jobs that don't.

So grow as a person and do something better than pushing carts or delivering pizza.

 

[Anomalism]

Yes they are and the kids.

Link?

 

[fncceo]

Are people starving in Texas?

Not if they're fond of rabbit ...