The Frayed Social Safety Net

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assistance, due to cuts to social safety net programs. The Obama administration’s expansion of programs such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

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[...] The Frayed Social Safety Net “The Institute for Women’s Policy Research recently released a study (PDF) showing that a shocking number of poor women with children do not receive adequate assistance, due to cuts to social safety net programs. The Obama administration’s expansion of programs such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) has not done enough to offset cuts to the programs in the 1990s. [...]

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You ain't seen nothing yet. Wait'll Social Security is cut. We've become a third world nation thanks to the Bush policies and Obama's
continuation of them.
Can we stop the corporate wars? The corporations have enough money of ours at this point to fight them themselves. go for it, boys

Except the Bush's policies have little to do with it. This war against the have-nots started under the Republican Congress while Clinton was still president. The Welfare Reform enacted by the Republicans wasn't as bad as it could have been had the repubs entirely got their way, but it was devastating to moms with children.

Yes, it's been bipartisan, this takedown of the New Deal and the attempted theft of everything we, the people have.
but it WAS also Bush's polices that put Shock Doctrine into hyperdrive. It just WAS.
The way he threw our money around with reckless abandon and every governor in the states pretty much followed his lead; was guaranteed to produce this financial mess we're in.
What I'd like to emphasize is the nation is now being run my money and power ADDICTS and is suffering from the same kind of selfishness an alcoholic wreaks on the family.

Greed doesn't cut it; It's ADDICTION plain and simple.
You can't excuse Bush's 8 years and blame the two presidents on either side of him, that's flat out disingenuous to act like Bush's 8 years just…didn't count.
The Bush policies had EVERYTHING to do with it; he let the addicts out of treatment to run wild

I am in no way defending George Bush or any of the myriad of things he did to this country, but Welfare Reform was passed by a republican congress while Clinton was president. While I appreciated the hard fought concessions the democrats and President Clinton got out of the republicans, Welfare Reform was mean spirited legislation against those who can't fight back. Because the largest majority of those receiving any kind of public assistance are mothers with children, welfare reform hurt those families the most. While each state had to write their own plan within the confines of the legislation, the rules they had to put in place made getting any help onerous and scarce. People applying for assistance frequently had to fill out more paperwork than someone applying for a loan. Some states had 16 or 17 pages. If you received any help, you were required to either work, do “make work” or in some states, be receiving training for work. It is very mean spirited legislation. Depending what state you live in, you may receive as little as a couple, three hundred a month for a mom with two kids- up to 800 something in others. You are time limited- after five years you are cut off. The only exceptions may be for those who are incapable of working due to mental or physical illness. As I said earlier,Bush did plenty to make things even worse for everyone, especially the poor, but the failure of the safety net for those with the least began with Welfare Reform passing.

Geez, let's not start the 'blame game', and getting politics into the discussion; its a bipartisan problem, and it deserves a bipartisan solution. In fact, the solution to poverty and need in the USA will likely *not* be a function of our broke[n] government at all. 'Everyday' people like you and I can make a difference, though…
See [ http://web.me.com/warmgeoff/RISN.html ] for a concept that could help us help others.

I hope the Government strongly support the poverty line and welfare of the family assistance!!!

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Having a child is a choice. Women who can't afford to raise a child, can't find a mate willing to support them, need to be told that the world doesn't need any more children. We should pay poor women not to breed, it would be cheaper in the long run. Maybe a tax break for those without children, and ending all tax breaks for having them would work. There are churches, extended families, and many charities that help children. It should not be the policy of the government to discriminate against those who can't or won't breed children they can't support by denying them benefits extended only to breeders.

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