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Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (or TANF) is supposed to be a financial lifeline for Maryland's poorest families. But a recent investigation shows that only about 25% of funds are distributed as direct cash assistance.
Read more at foxbaltimore.com/spotlight-on-maryland/most-of-marylands-tanf-dollars-dont-go-directly-to-needy-families-what-we-know
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Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (or TANF) is supposed to be a financial lifeline for Maryland's poorest families. But a recent investigation shows that only about 25% of funds are distributed as direct cash assistance.
Read more at foxbaltimore.com/spotlight-on-maryland/most-of-marylands-tanf-dollars-dont-go-directly-to-needy-families-what-we-know
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Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (or TANF) is supposed to be a financial lifeline for Maryland's poorest families. But a recent investigation shows that only about 25% of funds are distributed as direct cash assistance.
Read more at foxbaltimore.com/spotlight-on-maryland/most-of-marylands-tanf-dollars-dont-go-directly-to-needy-families-what-we-know
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Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (or TANF) is supposed to be a financial lifeline for Maryland's poorest families. But a recent investigation shows that only about 25% of funds are distributed as direct cash assistance.
Read more at foxbaltimore.com/spotlight-on-maryland/most-of-marylands-tanf-dollars-dont-go-directly-to-needy-families-what-we-know
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#HoustonTX - #UrbanHarvest Mobile Market
"Launched in the summer of 2020, the Urban Harvest Mobile Market Program is committed to providing individuals in food-insecure areas with expanded choice and purchasing power, promoting healthy dietary habits, and fostering a robust local food ecosystem in Houston.
Feeling the pinch? Urban Harvest has expanded Double Up to help!
Show your #SNAP, #WIC, #TANF, or other federal assistance card (no balance required) — or mention your health or community resource agency — and get $1 in free produce for every $1 you spend at any Mobile Market site.
Eligible payments for the Double Up match include SNAP, cash, or card.All Urban Harvest Mobile Market and Farmers Market sites:
BakerRipley Gulfton
4th Tuesdays
6500 Rookin St.
10am – 1pmNortheast Community FM at LBJ
1st and 3rd Saturdays
5656 Kelly, Entrance 4, Houston, TX 77026
9am to noonTrinity United Methodist Church
4th Saturday
2600 Holman St., Houston, TX 77004
10:00am – 1:00pm "Source:
https://www.urbanharvest.org/mobile-market/#SolarPunkSunday #MobileFarmersMarket #FoodInsecurity #FoodSecurity #MobileMarkets #BuildingCommunity
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#HoustonTX - #UrbanHarvest Mobile Market
"Launched in the summer of 2020, the Urban Harvest Mobile Market Program is committed to providing individuals in food-insecure areas with expanded choice and purchasing power, promoting healthy dietary habits, and fostering a robust local food ecosystem in Houston.
Feeling the pinch? Urban Harvest has expanded Double Up to help!
Show your #SNAP, #WIC, #TANF, or other federal assistance card (no balance required) — or mention your health or community resource agency — and get $1 in free produce for every $1 you spend at any Mobile Market site.
Eligible payments for the Double Up match include SNAP, cash, or card.All Urban Harvest Mobile Market and Farmers Market sites:
BakerRipley Gulfton
4th Tuesdays
6500 Rookin St.
10am – 1pmNortheast Community FM at LBJ
1st and 3rd Saturdays
5656 Kelly, Entrance 4, Houston, TX 77026
9am to noonTrinity United Methodist Church
4th Saturday
2600 Holman St., Houston, TX 77004
10:00am – 1:00pm "Source:
https://www.urbanharvest.org/mobile-market/#SolarPunkSunday #MobileFarmersMarket #FoodInsecurity #FoodSecurity #MobileMarkets #BuildingCommunity
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#HoustonTX - #UrbanHarvest Mobile Market
"Launched in the summer of 2020, the Urban Harvest Mobile Market Program is committed to providing individuals in food-insecure areas with expanded choice and purchasing power, promoting healthy dietary habits, and fostering a robust local food ecosystem in Houston.
Feeling the pinch? Urban Harvest has expanded Double Up to help!
Show your #SNAP, #WIC, #TANF, or other federal assistance card (no balance required) — or mention your health or community resource agency — and get $1 in free produce for every $1 you spend at any Mobile Market site.
Eligible payments for the Double Up match include SNAP, cash, or card.All Urban Harvest Mobile Market and Farmers Market sites:
BakerRipley Gulfton
4th Tuesdays
6500 Rookin St.
10am – 1pmNortheast Community FM at LBJ
1st and 3rd Saturdays
5656 Kelly, Entrance 4, Houston, TX 77026
9am to noonTrinity United Methodist Church
4th Saturday
2600 Holman St., Houston, TX 77004
10:00am – 1:00pm "Source:
https://www.urbanharvest.org/mobile-market/#SolarPunkSunday #MobileFarmersMarket #FoodInsecurity #FoodSecurity #MobileMarkets #BuildingCommunity
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#HoustonTX - #UrbanHarvest Mobile Market
"Launched in the summer of 2020, the Urban Harvest Mobile Market Program is committed to providing individuals in food-insecure areas with expanded choice and purchasing power, promoting healthy dietary habits, and fostering a robust local food ecosystem in Houston.
Feeling the pinch? Urban Harvest has expanded Double Up to help!
Show your #SNAP, #WIC, #TANF, or other federal assistance card (no balance required) — or mention your health or community resource agency — and get $1 in free produce for every $1 you spend at any Mobile Market site.
Eligible payments for the Double Up match include SNAP, cash, or card.All Urban Harvest Mobile Market and Farmers Market sites:
BakerRipley Gulfton
4th Tuesdays
6500 Rookin St.
10am – 1pmNortheast Community FM at LBJ
1st and 3rd Saturdays
5656 Kelly, Entrance 4, Houston, TX 77026
9am to noonTrinity United Methodist Church
4th Saturday
2600 Holman St., Houston, TX 77004
10:00am – 1:00pm "Source:
https://www.urbanharvest.org/mobile-market/#SolarPunkSunday #MobileFarmersMarket #FoodInsecurity #FoodSecurity #MobileMarkets #BuildingCommunity
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#HoustonTX - #UrbanHarvest Mobile Market
"Launched in the summer of 2020, the Urban Harvest Mobile Market Program is committed to providing individuals in food-insecure areas with expanded choice and purchasing power, promoting healthy dietary habits, and fostering a robust local food ecosystem in Houston.
Feeling the pinch? Urban Harvest has expanded Double Up to help!
Show your #SNAP, #WIC, #TANF, or other federal assistance card (no balance required) — or mention your health or community resource agency — and get $1 in free produce for every $1 you spend at any Mobile Market site.
Eligible payments for the Double Up match include SNAP, cash, or card.All Urban Harvest Mobile Market and Farmers Market sites:
BakerRipley Gulfton
4th Tuesdays
6500 Rookin St.
10am – 1pmNortheast Community FM at LBJ
1st and 3rd Saturdays
5656 Kelly, Entrance 4, Houston, TX 77026
9am to noonTrinity United Methodist Church
4th Saturday
2600 Holman St., Houston, TX 77004
10:00am – 1:00pm "Source:
https://www.urbanharvest.org/mobile-market/#SolarPunkSunday #MobileFarmersMarket #FoodInsecurity #FoodSecurity #MobileMarkets #BuildingCommunity
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Federal Funding for People in Poverty Is Going to Anti-Abortion Centers Instead
Most of the money Missouri gives to its crisis pregnancy centers comes from federal funds meant to assist families experiencing poverty with basic necessities and child care, Republican Rep. Jason Smith said on the U.S. House floor in January.
As many as $3 of every $4 for pregnancy centers in Missouri was from the federal #TANF ("Temporary Assistance for Needy Families") program in 2024,
and in the 2026 fiscal year, it will be $2 out of $3.The amount of #TANF funding has steadily increased since 2022, from $4.3 million then to $10.3 million in fiscal year 2026.
⚠️ At least eight states have given TANF funds to crisis pregnancy centers in recent years
-- even before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal protections for abortion rights in 2022.According to data from the consulting firm Health Management Associates,
more than $102 million from TANF went to the centers in those eight states between 2017 and 2023,
including $22.5 million in Ohio,
$11.75 million in Indiana
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Federal Funding for People in Poverty Is Going to Anti-Abortion Centers Instead
At least eight states gave Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds to crisis pregnancy centers in recent years. -
Federal Funding for People in Poverty Is Going to Anti-Abortion Centers Instead
At least eight states gave Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds to crisis pregnancy centers in recent years. -
Federal Funding for People in Poverty Is Going to Anti-Abortion Centers Instead
At least eight states gave Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds to crisis pregnancy centers in recent years. -
Federal Funding for People in Poverty Is Going to Anti-Abortion Centers Instead
At least eight states gave Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds to crisis pregnancy centers in recent years. -
Federal Funding for People in Poverty Is Going to Anti-Abortion Centers Instead
At least eight states gave Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds to crisis pregnancy centers in recent years. -
Judge: Trump administration can't block child care, program money for Colorado, 4 other states
Rep. Diana DeGette —'(Trump’s) effort is illegal, and I will continue to fight against his blatant politicization of funds that help the most vulnerable families in our state’
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Judge: Trump administration can't block child care, program money for Colorado, 4 other states
Rep. Diana DeGette —'(Trump’s) effort is illegal, and I will continue to fight against his blatant politicization of funds that help the most vulnerable families in our state’
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The hidden history of demonizing SNAP recipients : Code Switch : NPR
#SNAP #TANF #AFDC #welfare #WelfareReform #Clinton #Reagan #WelfareQueen
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/08/nx-s1-5600027/the-hidden-history-of-demonizing-snap-recipients -
US urged to ‘think bigger’ on healthcare amid Trump onslaught on sector
An academic journal may inject some optimism into US health policy – a scarce commodity amid the Trump administration’s mass layoffs, funding freezes and the ideological research reviews.
A new issue of Health Affairs Scholar argues the conversation around healthcare can change – and radically – if academics think “bigger” and policymakers invest in their communities.
“We saw what happened in the public outcry of the murder of the United HealthCare CEO,” said Dr Victor Roy, a family physician and director of the health and political economy project at the New School in New York City.
“There is a sense people are fed up and people are looking forbigger alternatives. People have really visceral feelings around these issues and we have a way to tackle them if people come up with ideas on the scale of the challenges people are experiencing.”
Health policy has quickly become a major touchstone of the Maga-right, as the Trump administration undertakes a shock and awe campaign that has dramatically altered public health institutions.
In just a few weeks in office, the administration has scrubbedgovernment health websites of information on women and racial minorities, reviewed billions in scientific grant applications for conformity to the president’s agenda, and confirmed the nation’s foremost vaccine critic, Robert F Kennedy Jr, as the nation’s top health leader at the Department of Health and Human Services.
The administration has also said it will pull the US out of the World Health Organization (WHO), which it helped found in 1948.
Additionally, congressional Republicans have floated major cuts to Medicaid, a health insurance program for the low-income and disabled that insures about 72 million Americans, to extend tax cuts that largely benefit the wealthy.
But even outside recent upheaval, the scale of challenges to American healthcare is something to behold:
the US spends more on healthcare than almost any other country as a share of gross domestic product,
yet has some of the worst outcomes among developed democracies.It is a global outlier for failing to offer universal healthcare and one of the few countries that allows its citizens to be bankrupted by medical debt.
How to fix it?
Don’t tinker around the edges, Roy argues.
Instead, look upstream for solutions to health problems.
Abandon narratives about “deserving-ness”.
Examine what is working in cities and states.
In an interview, Roy cited the example of the "Philadelphia Joy Bank" – a small program that provides pregnant and postpartum women with a $1,000 basic income.
This money comes with no questions asked, which is a world of difference from traditional “welfare”, or temporary assistance for needy families ( #TANF ).
TANF once provided temporary cash assistance to the poor. Since Clinton-era welfare reforms,
the program has been drained of resources;its scant payments have lost venue with inflation and work requirements have saddled many with insurmountable bureaucratic barriers.
In Connecticut, lawmakers established first-in-the-nation
“baby bonds”,
a small investing account for each low-income child born in the state.The program provides $3,200 per child that is invested in the market, and can be used to buy a house, start a business, or pay for higher education or retirement.
In Washington DC, reformers at the American Economic Liberties Project are using the lessons of recent anti-trust victories to push for a proposed
“Glass-Steagall for healthcare”.The initiative, called "Break Up Big Medicine", refers to the New Deal-era Glass-Steagall legislation that separated investment banks from commercial banks.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/22/us-healthcare-trump?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
Brett Favre stole over a million dollars from the #TANF program aka food stamps. He got $5 million of TANF funds diverted to pay for a volleyball court at the college where his daughter was on the team. He still owes the state $700,000.
There was a time when getting caught stealing from the poor meant political candidates wouldn't be seen on stage with you. Not any more, thanks to #Trump who is eagerly campaign with this actual example of human #garbage.
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Community Organizers Win Trust and Support Through Service
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/05/07/community-organizers-win-trust-and-support-through-service/
#communityorganizing #findmybenefits #TANF #snapbenefits -
Community Organizers Win Trust and Support Through Service
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/05/07/community-organizers-win-trust-and-support-through-service/
#communityorganizing #findmybenefits #TANF #snapbenefits -
#Biden Administration to Overhaul #Welfare Following ProPublica Reporting
==The Administration for Children and Families has quietly proposed closing loopholes in the nation's cash assistance program for the poor that a 2021 ProPublica investigation found states had exploited for years.
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"[US] law says that a state must have 50% of all families and 90% of two-parent families receiving assistance engaged in either work or activities."
-- The Congressional Research Service
PDF:
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN12150
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#welfare #WorkRequirements #tanf #CRS #congress -
"Under the TANF block grant, the federal government requires states to (1) meet the annual work participation rates determined by the federal government and (2) ensure that every recipient is working (as defined by the state) as soon as the state determines he or she is able or after 24 months of benefit receipt, whichever is earlier. States that do not meet the federal requirements may be sanctioned financially"
-- The Urban Institute
PDF:
https://wrd.urban.org/wrd/Data/databooks/2020%20Welfare%20Rules%20Databook%20(final%2002%2023%202022).pdf#page=147
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#tanf #WorkRequirements -
CW: Domestic Violence (mentioned)
Work requirements don’t work for domestic violence survivors – but Michigan data shows they rarely get waivers they should receive for cash assistance https://theconversation.com/work-requirements-dont-work-for-domestic-violence-survivors-but-michigan-data-shows-they-rarely-get-waivers-they-should-receive-for-cash-assistance-206489
They said they got no training on what domestic violence does to survivors’ ability to work, or guidance on when to grant the waivers. They also said there were no standard screening practices.
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#News is that Pres #JoeBiden is considering Speaker #KevinMcCarthy's demands to decrease funding, add #WorkRequirements, & raise the age of "abled body adults" from 18-50 to 18-56 on #SocialServices like #FoodStamps (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program / #SNAP).
I need my friends & followers to write the President. We need to tell him to keep hands OFF on #SocialWelfare programs, like SNAP, #TANF, #WIC, #AffordableHousing assistance, #HeadStart, & others.
Go to: whitehouse.gov/contact
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https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/biden-mccarthy-meet-us-debt-ceiling-talks-come-down-wire-2023-05-16/ Maybe someone smart can explain to me how making the already-working-two-min-wage-jobs single mom fulfill even more "work requirements" does anything to reduce the costs of her #SNAP and #TANF benefits, besides making her ineligible and lose those benefits when she can't... oh, I get it now.
"Reducing costs" to Republicans always means "stop helping so many poor people." It never means "repeal rich people's tax cuts" or "end corporate subsidies."
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I’ve often complained that when the US “ended welfare as we know it” (in 1996) no one kept track of what happened to the people who were on welfare. How many lost their apartments? Became drug addicts? Went to jail? Died?
There’s no doubt in my mind all of these things happened as a consequence. But we’ll never know the numbers. People with money and power didn’t want to talk about it. They didn’t want to know.
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#poverty #inequality #WorkRequirements #FoodStamps #TANF #uspolitics #usa -
$11.75/hr, 8-10hr shifts, Saturdays as needed, injuries to hands and fingers are common, earplugs and steel-toed boots required, 30F temperature, drug test, no benefits, temporary status. This is a bad job: a temp job at a sausage factory with poor working conditions and low pay.
But if you're poor and you want your Temporary Assistance for Needy Families check, you have to take it, or you won't get your check
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/the-uncertain-hour/chapter-6-the-welfare-to-temp-work-pipeline/
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#poverty #inequality #TANF #welfare #work #employment #GOP -
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4th, #Republicans want to cut #GovernmentSpending on #SocialWelfare prgms incl #SocialSecurity, #Medicare/#Medicaid, #SNAP/#FoodStamps, & COVID relief. It's #ClassWarfare blaming poor for #nationaldebt. Yes #SocialServices is a fair % of the budget, but so is the military & they arent cutting that. Besides for every $1 the gov puts into SNAP we get about $1.79 in economic activity. It's true for other #PublicAssistance prgms like #TANF, #Section8 & others.
#news #debtceiling #KevinMcCarthy -
@hosford42
One example: a woman briefly profiled in this podcast episode -- she had a low-paying, no benefits job, lost it when her car broke down and she couldn't afford to fix it, and wound up on TANF
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/the-uncertain-hour/chapter-1-the-dream/
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#poverty #TheUncertainHour #inequality #work #economics #welfare #TANF -
TANF: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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CW: Long thread/15
The (predominantly) women who do unpaid care work are heavily reliant on programs like #TemporaryAssistanceForNeedyFamilies (#TANF), which is not indexed to inflation and has fallen in real terms every year since 1996 - a total drop of 40% in a generation.
Even if you don't care about gender equity, equity for disabled people, or a dignified old age for our elders, this should concern you.
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CW: This is a brutal series about seeking TANF cash assistance benefits. These people exist, they need help. These programs don't work. Our society is collapsing. US is more and more a failed state. Our #SafetyNet is getting worse and worse.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbHQZP82_nyj5LUf2o0SJbISYWCkcTVus
#SocialCollapse #TANF #MutualAid #SocialWork @socialwork