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Georgia’s Increased TANF Work Participation Rate is Driven by Sharp Caseload Decline
Liz Schott
March 6, 2007

Overview Georgia’s success at increasing its TANF work participation rate has been touted as a welfare reform model for other states as they seek ways to meet the new work participation requirements associated with the Deficit Reduction Act changes to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant. An examination of available data on Georgia’s TANF program and …
Implementing the TANF Changes in the Deficit Reduction Act
CBPP: Sharon Parrott, Liz Schott and Eileen Sweeney
Center for Law and Social Policy: Allegra Baider, Evelyn Ganzglass, Mark Greenberg, Elizabeth Lower-Basch, Elisa Minoff, Vicki Turetsky
February 9, 2007

In the coming months, states will face key choices as they decide the next direction for their Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs. After a lengthy and contentious reauthorization process, Congress enacted changes to TANF in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) that substantially increase the proportion of assistance recipients who must …