House GOP Bill Would Actually End Welfare Reform Work Requirements
Source: Talking Points Memo
Republicans have embraced a widely debunked premise to attack President Obama for gutting welfare reform. But a House GOP bill that has already cleared a major committee would actually ax the welfare programs work requirements, according to Congress nonpartisan referee.
The legislation H.R. 4297, The Workforce Investment Improvement Act was unveiled in March by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and cosponsored by six Republican colleagues. Among them was Education & Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN), who passed the bill through his committee in June.
The measure is aimed at streamlining workforce training by letting states slash redundant programs and consolidate them with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) welfare program into one Workforce Investment Fund (WIF). States would be given so much flexibility that the restrictions in the 1996 welfare law need no longer apply, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.
Thus, for example, if TANF funds were consolidated into the WIF, TANF program requirements (e.g., work requirements) may no longer apply to that portion of funding because the TANF funding would not exist (i.e., it would be part of the WIF and thus subject to WIF program requirements), CRS concluded in a memo.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/PDF/CRS-TANFWaiverAuthorityMemo.pdf
Read more: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/house-gop-bill-end-welfare-reform-work-requirent.php?ref=fpa
goclark
(30,404 posts)oldsarge54
(582 posts)Stop doing what we suggest. Stop offering compromises. AND STOP FACT CHECKING US.
mac56
(17,567 posts)Unbelievable.
patrice
(47,992 posts)by means of which he supposedly single-handedly brought down the Soviet Union, that is, kind of like "the good santa", spend them into financial ruin and, thus, in this instance, break the federal government and a variety of federal programs up by over-extending it and them.
trailmonkee
(2,681 posts)montanacowboy
(6,089 posts)Virginia Foxx - no more needs to be said
So what they accuse the President of, they do themselves - when is this madness going to end
KinMd
(966 posts)...just more babble from the House kooks