Podcast: Re-imagining America’s Safety Net

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This American Enterprise Institute podcast features a presentation from Clarence H. Carter, the Director of the Office of Family Assistance and Acting Director of the Office of Community Services at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This presentation covers Director Carter’s vision for a re-imagined safety net which builds the capacity of TANF clients and how local service providers’ expertise and creativity can be leveraged.
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2019-08-15T20:00:00
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2019-08-16
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Welfare Rules Databook: State TANF Policies as of July 2018

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This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation annual compendium provides comparative analysis of TANF cash assistance programs within all 50 states and the District of Columbia and identifies changes in cash assistance rules that govern TANF state programs that have occurred over time or at a single point in time. The annual publication also presents tables that describe the dimensions of state policies thru July 2018 and longitudinal analysis of state policies between 1996 and 2018.
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2019-09-12T20:00:00
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2019-09-13
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TANF and MOE Spending and Transfers by Activity, FY 2018

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This Office of Family Assistance dataset identifies combined federal TANF and state maintenance-of-effort (MOE) expenditures at national and state levels. The dataset, which includes tables and national and state pie charts, illustrates how the TANF and MOE funds were used for basic assistance; work, education, and training activities; and child care. The dataset also identifies in tables those funds that were transferred to the Child Care Development Fund.
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2019-09-10T20:00:00
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2019-09-11
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TANF Caseload Data 2019

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The Office of Family Assistance published data tables which cover TANF and maintenance-of-effort separate caseloads by state and at the national level from October 2018 through March 2019. The tables are cross-tabbed to include total recipients, total families, total children, one-parent families, two-parent families, no parent families, adults, and monthly caseload data.
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2019-08-04T20:00:00
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2019-08-05
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Emerging Practice Series: New Hampshire TANF Career Pathways Partnership

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This brief highlights an innovative collaboration forged between a corporation, government agencies, and a community partner in New Hampshire to create a career pathway for TANF participants. Read more about how the partners designed a phased training model to directly integrate TANF program requirements and prepare participants for a pharmacy technician career.

This brief is part of the Emerging Practice Series of the Office of Family Assistance’s Integrating Innovative Employment and Economic Stability Strategies (IIEESS) initiative, which highlights the strategies of TANF agencies and their partners to help low-income individuals gain and sustain meaningful employment. Each brief describes an emerging practice that has been implemented in one site, an overview of the program model, and the results that have been achieved. Compelling stories of participants’ success and suggestions from TANF agency staff to their peers provide actionable insights and on-the-ground perspectives.

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2019-08-21T20:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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City/County
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2019-08-22
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Call for Proposals: Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency (RECS)

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The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation is accepting proposals for individual presentations, full conference sessions, and roundtables for the Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency (RECS) to be held in Washington, D.C. on May 27-29, 2020. Panels will cover the following topics: TANF Programs, Policies, and Populations; Employment and Mobility in the Labor Market; Youth Well-Being and the Transition to Adulthood; Strengthening Families, Fatherhood, Marriages, and Relationships; Evaluating Social Programs, Building Evidence, and Using Data; and Approaches to Alleviate Poverty and Expand Opportunity. Presentations will cover both basic and applied research targeted to a broad audience of researchers, practitioners, state and local administrators, and policymakers. The deadline for proposal submissions has been extended to September 6, 2019.

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2019-09-05T20:00:00
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2019-09-06
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Can Antipoverty Policies Change Neighborhood Outcomes in the Long Run?

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This Upjohn Institute policy brief analyzes the long-run outcomes of Earned Income Tax Credit and welfare time limits to increase employment and reduce public assistance; the brief also reviews the impact of anti-poverty programs on geographical locations where participants live. The research and analysis examine these anti-poverty programs and whether they have made a difference not only for individual households and participants, but also for disadvantaged neighborhoods.
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2019-04-30T20:00:00
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2019-05-01
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Wisconsin Poverty Report Update: Why Isn’t the Economy Doing More to Improve Poverty in Wisconsin?

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The Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin at Madison will host a webinar on July 17, 2019 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. CT to discuss the 11th Annual Wisconsin Poverty Report. Report findings will be presented, including why the poverty level in Wisconsin has not changed since the end of the Great Recession despite an overall improvement in the statewide economy.
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2019-07-17T10:00:00
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2019-07-17
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National Welfare Data

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This comprehensive dataset from the University of Kentucky’s Center for Poverty Research profiles state-level data on every state, reflecting numbers, rates, amounts, and/or percentages of population; employed and unemployed individuals; three food insecurity levels; personal income; low-income uninsured children; and recipients receiving workers’ compensation, AFDC/TANF, SNAP, SSI, Medicaid, and EITC credits from 1980 to 2017. This dataset was updated in May 2019 to reflect 2017 in this longitudinal data collection that assembles information from multiple sources into one place.
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2019-04-30T20:00:00
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2019-05-01
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