81. Untitled WASHINGTON With reauthorization of key “welfare reform” legislation due inthe coming year, activists are mobilizing to place the rights of minorities http://www.accuracy.org/ipam090401.htm

Rethinking Welfare Reform By Evan Woodward WASHINGTON With re-authorization of key “welfare reform” legislation due in the coming year, activists are mobilizing to place the rights of minorities and women foremost on the agenda. Many indict the current system established by the 1996 passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act as a racist and gender-biased structure that keeps the poor in poverty and further burdens disadvantaged families. The five-year-old legislation has in fact reduced welfare rolls. A White House report in 2000 said that the number of Americans on welfare had decreased from 5.5 percent in 1993 to 2.3 percent in 1999. An argument now rages over whether the point of reform is to reduce the welfare rolls or to reduce poverty. Some activists maintain that these numbers reflect a slashing of America’s “safety net.” “Welfare rolls dropped by more than half nationally since 1996, but poverty for single mothers is only down 0.7 percent,” reports Ann Withorn, professor of social policy at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. Withorn is a co-author of “An Immodest Proposal,” a series of demands collected by the feminist Women’s Committee of 100 that challenge the gender and race discrimination they find rampant in current welfare legislation. The document contains demands for an end to mandatory work outside the home, a “caregiver’s allowance” that reimburses mothers for work they do inside the home, and a substantial increase in labor standards for women.

82. Chai IMPACT Archive Senate to Consider legislation to Undermine Public and Assisted Housing Programs,5/29/97. AntiFamily welfare reform Bill Slated for Floor Action, 6/27/96. http://www.rac.org/take/chaiarchive.html

Chai IMPACT Action Alerts Archive Search our list of past Action Alerts by date or by issue Chai Impact Report: 105th Congress, 1997-1998 This report reviews the Chai IMPACT action alerts which the Religious Action Center issued over the past year, and reports on Congressional action regarding these issues. It is intended to inform Reform Jewish activists, and those in the larger community as well, about the outcome of the issues on which we mobilized our activists. By date Send Your Governor a Message: Suspend the Death Penalty Clinton Proposes Tax Relief for Working Families Support Campaign Finance Reform: Participate in the Elected Leadership Project 2000 Support the Wye Aid Commitment Patients' Bill of Rights to Reach House Floor This Week Support Campaign Finance Reform Urge Congress to Reject the "Unborn Victims of Violence Act" (H.R. 2436) Minimum Wage Vote Expected Week of September 21 Support the Patients' Bill of Rights House Floor Vote on RLPA Next Week; Act Now to Ensure Religious Liberty Support Hate Crimes Legislation House to Consider Gun Control Measures in Wake of School Tragedies Act Now to Protect Funding to Provide Nutritious Food to Women, Infants, and Children

83. ACF - Welfare Reform Updated September 2002. Dates for Transmitting Data for FY2003 HighPerformance Bonus awards; The President's welfare reform Proposal; http://www.acf.hhs.gov/news/welfare/

Questions? Privacy Site Index Contact Us ... Search Updated March 2003 Fifth Annual Report to Congress Retention of TANF Records FY 2001 Work Participation Information Memorandum ... The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) Guidance on application of Final Rule Final TANF Regulations Executive Summary - TANF Regulations ... 2000 State Maintenance of Effort FOR MORE INFORMATION Go to: the ACF Press Office the Department of Labor - Welfare to Work the Welfare Information Network OFA Internet ... Privacy This document was last modified on Mar- 5-2003 .

84. Press Release - Boehner, McKeon Praise Introduction Of Welfare Reform Legislatio Telephone (202) 2254527. Boehner, McKeon Praise Introduction of WelfareReform legislation. Personal Responsibility, Work and Family http://edworkforce.house.gov/press/press108/02feb/welfarereform020403.htm

News from the Committee on Education and the Workforce John Boehner, Chairman FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 4, 2003 CONTACTS: Kevin Smith or Dave Schnittger Telephone: (202) 225-4527 Boehner, McKeon Praise Introduction of Welfare Reform Legislation Personal Responsibility, Work and Family Promotion Act Strengthens Work Requirements, Boosts Child Care Funding WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Personal Responsibility, Work and Family Promotion Act Based on President Bush’s reform proposal, the measure would strengthen current work requirements and significantly increase child care funding. “The 1996 welfare reform has been a dramatic success, but a majority of welfare recipients today are still not working for their benefits,” said Boehner. “The bill introduced today marks the second phase of welfare reform. It will put even more Americans on the path to self-sufficiency.” “This is about helping welfare recipients achieve independence, to become self-reliant, and to be able to provide for their families,” said McKeon. “This bill will empower families by strengthening work requirements, increasing funding for childcare, and enhancing state flexibility.”

85. CSD Individual Development Accounts In Welfare Reform IDAs In welfare reform. Excerpt from the Personal Responsibility andWork Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. Section 404(h) Use http://gwbweb.wustl.edu/csd/Areas_Work/Asset_building/IDAs/Welfare_reform.htm

HOME SEARCH CONTACT US SITE MAP ... MIS IDA IDAs In Welfare Reform Excerpt from the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 Section 404(h): Use of funds for Individual Development Accounts (1) IN GENERAL A State to which a grant is made under section 403 may use the grant to carry out a program to fund individual development accounts (as defined in paragraph two) established by individuals eligible for assistance under the State program funded under this part. (2) INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNTS (A) ESTABLISHMENT- Under a State program carried out under paragraph (1), an individual development account may be established by or on behalf of an individual eligible for assistance under the State program operated under this part for the purpose of enabling the individual to accumulate funds for a qualified purpose described in subparagraph (B). (B) QUALIFIED PURPOSE- A qualified purpose described in this subparagraph is 1 or more of the following, as provided by the qualified entity providing assistance to the individual under this subsection:

86. American Civil Liberties Union : Rights Of The Poor : Welfare Reform 03/15/2002). Rights of the Poor Issues General Education Health careHousing Indigent defense Reproductive rights welfare reform http://www.aclu.org/PoorRights/PoorRightsList.cfm?c=154&ContentStyle=7

87. Commonwealth Department Of Family And Community Services | Australians Working T services. Background information on welfare reform is also available.© Commmonwealth of Australia, 2002 Last modified 12 July 2002. http://www.facs.gov.au/internet/facsinternet.nsf/whatsnew/29_9_99speech.htm

@import url( /internet/facsinternet.nsf/css/body/$File/body.css); @import url( /internet/facsinternet.nsf/css/body/$File/body.css); Home Newsroom Contact FaCS Search Australians Working Together The Federal Government has announced important changes to Australia's welfare and employment services - "Australians Working Together - Helping people to move forward". The Australians Working Together package provides new funding for employment and community services to expand and improve the assistance available to Australians looking for work. Extra help will be provided for parents, mature age people, Indigenous Australians and people with disabilities. The package provides new incentives for people to take up full-time, part-time or irregular casual jobs by allowing them to keep more of their income support payments when they start work. From July 2002 new requirements will apply to working-age people receiving income support payments. Taking account of their individual circumstances, working-age people receiving income support payments will be required to take up opportunities available to help them become job-ready and better able to take part in Australia's' economic and community life". The Australians Working Together Internet site has more information about the changes to Australia's welfare and employment services.

88. Senator Nelson Issue In The Spotlight welfare reform. Senator Nelson continues to work with a groupof centrist Senators to advocate the next generation of welfare reform. http://bennelson.senate.gov/issueswelfarereform.htm

Ben Nelson United States Senator, NEBRASKA Home Issues Committees Biography ... of the Capitol Issue In The Spotlight: WELFARE REFORM "It's clear that over the years welfare programs that were designed to be safety nets became spider webs. If we are going to help people out of that process it's going to require innovative thinking." Senator Nelson continues to work with a group of centrist Senators to advocate the next generation of welfare reform. The bipartisan effort aims to build on the success of the 1996 welfare reform bill by continuing the emphasis on a work-first approach. Senator Nelson's major goals include demanding work from welfare recipients, strengthening families , and providing flexibility and resources for individual states. Welfare Reform In The 108th Congress From Welfare Reform Legislation Congressional Record Passages On Welfare Reform Return To Issues Main Senator Nelson On Welfare Reform Press Releases Columns Multimedia As Nebraska's Governor More About Welfare Reform U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

89. United States Senator Rick Santorum-Welfare Children. I was privileged to be an author of the major welfare reformlegislation that brought about this and many other changes. The http://santorum.senate.gov/Issues/Community/Welfare/welfare.html

Welfare reform has been, and continues to be, one of my top legislative priorities, and it is a major issue before Congress this year. Legislation to this end has already been passed by the House of Representatives and several bills have been generated in the Senate. I have listened to a wide range of Pennsylvanians, from service providers to welfare recipients, and I look forward to working with my colleagues to produce legislation that moves more individuals off the welfare rolls and into self-sustaining employment. The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program was established in 1996 to replace a program called the Aid to Families with Dependent Children. I was privileged to be an author of the major welfare reform legislation that brought about this and many other changes. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, as this legislation was named, strengthens families, discourages illegitimacy, demands accountability from parents, and stresses personal responsibility. Under TANF specifically, welfare recipients are required to work in exchange for time-limited benefits, and states enjoy significant flexibility in designing the eligibility criteria and benefit rules. I continue to follow the implementation of this important law, and I am committed to ensuring its success over time. Thousands of welfare recipients have already made the difficult transition to employment, but individuals with even greater barriers to independence remain on the welfare rolls. To assist these individuals, I have supported and will continue to support funding for programs such as the Social Services Block Grant and the Child Care and Development Block Grant, which encourage individual self-sufficiency and help states transition recipients from welfare to work.

90. Jack Conway For Congress 2002: Press Releases - Conway Supports Third Approach T The Work and Family Act complements the successes of the 1996 welfare reformlegislation by continuing the “Work First” principle, raising the work http://conwayforcongress.com/news/release.php3?ReleaseID=15

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