After 20 years, TANF provides little to poor families

by Ife Floyd

Photo: Mississippi Department of Human Services

Twenty years after Temporary Assistance for Needy Families’ (TANF) inception, few poor families actually receive cash assistance under it and, for those who do, state benefit levels are low and are losing value.  Our new series of maps illustrates the decline of this cash assistance safety net.

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