Tanf Emergency Fund

Arthur Delaney

GOP Blocks Reauthorization Of 'Important Social Safety Net Program'

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Tuesday tried to push a three-month extension of a stimulus bill jobs program that is set to expire on Thursday, jeopardi...

Arthur Delaney

Stimulus Jobs Program's End 'Totally Unbelievable'

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Siobhan Kolar can't believe that thousands of jobs, including her own with an unemployment advocacy nonprofit called Chicago Jobs with Justice, are on...

Arthur Delaney

Welfare-To-Work Program's Demise 'Really Demoralizing'

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Jaquayla Burton's job will end this week unless the Senate does an about-face and decides to preserve a welfare-to-work program that created more than...

Arthur Delaney

Dems Revive 'Tax Extenders' Bill, Would Save Welfare-To-Work Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) has revived "tax extenders" legislation that, in addition to providing a plethora of business tax cuts, would close a loopho...

Lucia Graves

Casey Makes Last Effort To Save Jobs-Creation Program Set To Expire In Two Weeks

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

U.S. Senator Bob Casey joined Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter in calling for a one-year extension of a subsidized jobs program, highlighting a lette...

Arthur Delaney

Last-Minute Lobbying Drive To Save Jobs Created By Welfare To Work Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Advocates of a welfare-to-work program that has created an estimated 240,000 jobs are lobbying frantically to get Congress to reauthorize funding for ...

Arthur Delaney

End Near For Welfare-To-Work Program That Created 240,000 Jobs

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Advocates of a welfare-to-work program created by last year's stimulus bill are calling on Congress not to jeopardize some 240,000 jobs by letting the...

Lucia Graves

TANF Emergency Fund: Pelosi Slams Senate Republicans For Letting Jobs-Creation Program Expire

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed Senate Republicans Thursday for failing to reauthorize funding for a subsidized jobs program that has created 240,0...

Arthur Delaney

TANF Emergency Fund: Congress Allowing Jobs-Creating Program To Expire

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Congress is set to increase unemployment by not reauthorizing a fund for a subsidized jobs program that will expire on September 30, jeopardizing 240,...

Subsidized Jobs Programs Peaking as Expiration Looms

LaDonna Pavetti | Posted 05.25.2011

LaDonna Pavetti

The TANF Emergency Fund provides jobs at a very low cost. But if the Senate doesn't act, most of the people who've gotten work through the program will soon become unemployed.