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  2. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families - Wikipedia

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    Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF / t æ n ɪ f /) is a federal assistance program of the United States.It began on July 1, 1997, and succeeded the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, providing cash assistance to indigent American families through the United States Department of Health and Human Services. [2]

  3. Mothers' pensions - Wikipedia

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    Mothers' pensions were long-term cash provisions to impoverished single mothers. [3] Payments were generally inadequate to cover living expenses. [4] Nearly every state had a maximum allowable allowance ranging from 9 dollars to 15 dollars per month (approximately $120 to $275 in 2021 dollars) for the first child and 4 dollars to 10 dollars for any additional children. [5]

  4. Aid to Families with Dependent Children - Wikipedia

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    Seal of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, which administered the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program. Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was a federal assistance program in the United States in effect from 1935 to 1997, created by the Social Security Act (SSA) and administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that ...

  5. Black single mothers are struggling to find financial stability

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    New data shows Black single mothers are facing dire economic challenges, making even basic expenses too hard to cover. According to a nationwide survey by The Current Project, 66% of Black single ...

  6. Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act - Wikipedia

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    According to Edelman, the 1996 welfare reform law destroyed the safety net. It increased poverty, lowered income for single mothers, put people from welfare into homeless shelters, and left states free to eliminate welfare entirely. It moved mothers and children from welfare to work, but many of them are not making enough to survive.

  7. Texas fined $100,000 per day for failing to act on foster ...

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    A federal judge is fining Texas $100,000 per day for routinely neglecting to adequately investigate allegations of abuse and neglect raised by children in the state’s struggling foster care system.

  8. Yes, Texas mothers can legally surrender a baby under Safe ...

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    News of a newborn baby found dead in the front yard of a Fort Worth home begs the question of what options parents in crisis have.

  9. McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act - Wikipedia

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    The McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 is a United States federal law that provides federal money for homeless shelter programs. [1] [2] It was the first significant federal legislative response to homelessness, [3] and was passed by the 100th United States Congress and signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on July 22, 1987. [4]