Ensuring Full Credit Under TANF's Work Participation Rate
This brief highlights ways that states may count or combine work activities to get full credit for their measured work participation rate.
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An overview of SNAP rules and eligibility in relation to college student access.
View ArticleA Job Creation and Job Quality Agenda for Labor Day
This report summarizes the recent trends in employment rate and job quality and provides policy recommendations. Despite employment recovery, many are still left behind and job quality is worse than...
View ArticleDeveloping Pathways Out of Poverty through Transitional Jobs: Expanding...
CLASP and the National Transitional Jobs Network (an initiative of Heartland Alliance’s National Initiatives on Poverty & Economic Opportunity) held a webinar on March 19, 2015 that discussed...
View ArticleEducation Tax Credits: Refundability Critical to Making Credits Helpful to...
This brief explains the tax provisions that would be affected by recent proposals, compares them all, and examines how different types of students would be affected under each proposal.
View ArticleTestimony for the Record to the U.S. House Subcommittee on Human Resources on...
Testimony of Elizabeth Lower-Basch, policy coordinator and director of the income and work supports, on the effectiveness of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) as a safety net program.
View ArticleTANF 101: Cash Assistance
This brief, part of the TANF 101 series, provides in-depth information cash assistance under Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant.
View ArticleTANF 101: Block Grant
This brief, part of the TANF 101 series, explains the fixed block grant awarded to states under Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
View ArticleTANF 101: Work Participation Rate
This brief, part of the TANF 101 series, describes the work participation rate which services as the only measure of performance states under Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
View ArticleModernizing Benefit Systems: Opportunities and Challenges
Elizabeth Lower-Basch presented at the NLADA Litigation and Advocacy Leaders Conference on modernizing benefit systems on July 9, 2016.
View ArticleStrengthening TANF at 20: A National View
Elizabeth Lower-Basch presented at the Philadelphia Shared Prosperity Roundtable on Strengthening TANF at 20: A National View on September 22, 2016.
View ArticleAdding Stumbling Blocks in the Path to Health Care: New State Option in House...
The new version of the AHCA introduces a provision that would allow states to institute "work requirements" as a condition of Medicaid receipt.
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