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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-10 01:41 AM
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California proposes to eliminate CalWORKS (TANF) welfare program
Edited on Mon Jul-12-10 01:42 AM by Hannah Bell
The centerpiece of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s state budget proposals is the wholesale elimination of the CalWORKS program, the state’s welfare-to-work program begun in 1997.
Over 1.4 million low-income people, including 1.1 million children, are served by this program. The maximum monthly grant for a family of three is $694, or 45.5 percent of the federal poverty line, and is the exact amount that families received in 1989-90 without adjusting for inflation. For many, the CalWORKS check pays the rent or covers childcare expenses.

Included in Schwarzenegger’s proposals were cuts to other programs affecting the poor:

• $750 million from the state’s In-Home Supportive Services program

• $532 million from Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program

• $15 million from Healthy Families, California’s children’s health insurance program.


CalWORKs is the state’s Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program, established by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, which abolished Depression-era entitlements to “end welfare as we know it” carried out under the Clinton administration. With the exception of some disabled individuals, recipients must find jobs and work, undergo vocational training or participate in community service activities for at least 32 hours a week.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jul2010/calw-j12.shtml





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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-10 01:48 AM
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1. Boy, can you tell he can't be reelected! With everyone he's pissing off,
it must be getting to the point where his body guards are going to have to work ot!
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tabatha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-10 01:49 AM
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2. When can they start cutting the rich - or at least
collect the taxes needed from them.
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-10 05:22 AM
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3. The poor are meat in a grinder. Nt
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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-10 09:37 AM
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4. Wasn't this started during the Clinton years and proved to be HIGHLY successful?
I am so sick of these rich assholes running our country into the ground!
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