Human Services News

From Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:

The budget reconciliation bill that the House passed on November 18, H.R. 4241, includes a set of controversial provisions related to the reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant and the child care block grant. The TANF and child care provisions in the House bill would impose inflexible and expensive new mandates on states.

Those provisions would require states to operate large welfare-to-work programs without providing states either the flexibility to determine how best to help individual parents move from welfare to work or the resources needed to meet the new requirements. The Senate budget reconciliation bill, in contrast, contains no TANF or child care provisions.

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