May 29, 2012

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House Passes Bombs-Not-Bread Bill To Spare Military, Cut Food Aid

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 05.10.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The House on Thursday passed its plan to spare the military's growing budget from mandatory cuts, instead slashing Medicaid, benefits fo...

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Bombs Not Food: Republicans Aim To Save Military By Cutting Food Stamps

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Food Stamp Cuts, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Republican Budget Cuts, Food Stamps, Budget Cuts, War on Food Stamps, Tanf, Budget Reconciliation, Snap, Video, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The latest Republican plan to reconcile the budget and preserve defense spending extracts even deeper cuts from programs to help the poo...

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The Bad Research Behind Georgia's Welfare Drug Testing Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Aclu, Welfare, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Video, Drug Testing, Florida Drug Testing, Tarren Bragon, Welfare Drug Testing, Georgia Welfare Drug Testing, Politics News

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) signed a law last week that will soon require welfare applicants to pay for drug tests and pass them in order to be eligi...

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Paul Ryan Wants 'Welfare Reform Round 2'

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Welfare, Video, Food Stamps, Welfare Reform, Paul Ryan, Paul Ryan Budget, Politics News

Congressional Republicans' budget guru said Tuesday that he wants Congress to overhaul food stamps and other safety net programs in the way welfare wa...

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Nevada Safety Net Has Holes For Mitt Romney To Fix

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 02.02.2012

Read More: Welfare, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Video, Unemployment, Social Security, Food Stamps, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney Nevada, Unemployment Benefits, Nevada Caucuses, Mitt Romney Poor People, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance, Politics News

Republican presidential candidate candidate Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he is "not concerned about the very poor" because government programs alre...

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House Republicans Want To Ban Welfare Debit Card Use At Strip Clubs, Liquor Stores

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Welfare, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, House of Representatives, Video, Charles Boustany, Welfare Reform, Welfare Strip Clubs, Welfare Drug Testing, House Republicans, Strip Clubs, Politics News

Struggling families will no longer be allowed to withdraw welfare funds at automated teller machines in liquor stores, casinos or strip clubs if Repub...

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Indiana Lawmakers Advance Drug Testing For Welfare Applicants And Themselves

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Welfare, Jud Mcmillin, Video, Indiana General Assembly, Jud Mcmillin Indiana, Ryan Dvorak Indiana, Ryan Dvorak, Drug Testing Indiana, Drug Testing, Indiana Drug Testing, Welfare Drug Testing, Drug Testing Welfare, Politics News

The Indiana House of Representatives approved a bill Tuesday that would drug test people who apply for welfare, along with members of the Indiana Gene...

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Welfare Drug Testing Bill Withdrawn After Amended To Include Testing Lawmakers

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Drug Testing, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Welfare, Indiana Drug Testing, Unemployment Drug Test, Video, Class Warfare, Welfare Drug Testing, Politics News

A Republican member of the Indiana General Assembly withdrew his bill to create a pilot program for drug testing welfare applicants Friday after one o...

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What Happens To The Social Safety Net In A Government Shutdown?

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Welfare, Social Security, Food Stamps, Government Shutdown, Unemployment Insurance, Social Safety Net, Medicare, Safety Net, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- What happens to the social safety net if the government shuts down on April 8? The Obama administration won’t say whether beneficia...

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Federal Government Cuts Off Recession Relief Money To States

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Federal Funding, Welfare, Poverty, Unemployment, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Homelessness, Tanf, Politics News

Despite soaring unemployment and the 19 million Americans currently living in "deep poverty," federal funds for the Temporary Assistance For Needy Fam...

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Stimulus Act Jobs Set To Expire, Thousands Facing Unemployment

New York Times | MICHAEL COOPER | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tens of thousands of people will lose their jobs within weeks unless Congress extends one of the more effective job-creating programs in the $787 bill...

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Conservatives Just Killed 240,000 Jobs

Terrance Heath | Posted 05.25.2011

What do conservatives have against a program that put 240,000 people to work in the middle of an unemployment crisis?

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Welfare, Tanf Emergency Fund, Unemployment, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Tanf, Welfare-to-Work, Politics News

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...

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What Labor Day Means to Me

Jim Gibbons | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Goodwill Industries of Kentucky, Government, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Welfare, Barbara Delbridge, Unemployment Rate, TANF Emergency Contingency Fund, Goodwill Industries of the Redwood Empire, Labor Day, Jim Gibbons, Employment, Goodwill, Tanf, Healthy Living News

Labor Day often represents the end of summer, which means the end of summer vacation, back to school and one last barbecue or block party. But what do...

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Report: Thousands In Welfare Cash Tapped At California Strip Clubs

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, California Welfare, California Welfare Strip Clubs, Los Angeles News

California welfare recipients have been able to get taxpayer cash -- meant to feed and clothe needy families -- from ATM machines at strip clubs acros...

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These Three Words Could Save Your Life

Alexia Parks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jobless, Unemployment Benefits, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Unemployed, Economic Opportunity Act, Unemployment, Federal Government, Impact News

The cry of an unemployed woman at the end of her financial rope struck a national nerve. "I feel like I'm drowning," she told a reporter who was writi...

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Californians in Crisis: Nothing Left to Sacrifice

Irasema Garza | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Welfare, California Budget, Unemployment, Calworks, Poverty, California Economy, Tanf, California Poverty, California Budget Crisis, Los Angeles News

For years the poorest people in California, turned to the state's CalWORKs program to make ends meet. But in order to reduce the billion deficit, Schwarzenegger has proposed a range of cuts.

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Congress Needs to Listen to the Voices of Real People -- Not Sound Bites

Deborah Weinstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Workforce, Children, Jobs, Politics, Recession, Unemployment Insurance, Medicaid, Congress, Wages, H.R. 4213, Coalition on Human Needs, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Low-Income, Mark Zandi, Unemployment, Tanf, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Economy, Politics News

Yesterday the Coalition on Human Needs sent out an alert asking people to call their congressional representatives in support of a bill that will exte...

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Renew a Federal Stimulus Program That's Creating Local Jobs Now

Gavin Newsom | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economic Stimulus Package, California, Gavin Newsom, Don Knabe, Economy, President Obama, Jobs, Democrats, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Jobsnow, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Politics News

The new jobs bill is an enormous opportunity for lawmakers to give a boost to a program from the stimulus that LA and San Francisco are using to create thousands of jobs.

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