also look at what TANF actually does, getting rid of it while massively expanding and reforming an anti-poverty program to be far more effective is no great loss
in one sense this is embezzlement and fraud being described, but it's not like the money is being taken away from needy families, mississippi takes advantage of the block grant set up to reject viruallly all applicants and instead spends it on whatever
https://twitter.com/jdcmedlock/status/1257693775524016128
The block grant flexibility frees up states whose government are ideologically opposed to capital-w Welfare but have funding issues to spend it on "Public and private pre-school, child welfare, and college scholarships" cbpp.org/blog/louisiana…
the degree to which tanf *by design* has withered way into irrelevance and ineffectiveness can't be overstated. yes, other programs have expanded to fill the gap (namely SNAP) but cash welfare, as we know it or not, is basically dead
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