Comments on: One Hand Clapping for DC TANF Families

By: Homelessness, Child Poverty Not Emergencies, DC Mayor and Council Decide « Poverty & Policy

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:02:07 +0000

[...] these are funds the Mayor had promised over two months ago. And they’ll delay the scheduled benefits cuts only until [...]

By: DC Mayor Plans to Bank Fund Surplus, Leave Poor Families in Crisis « Poverty & Policy

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:03:59 +0000

[...] the Gray administration has considerably more money than it thought it had when it said it could postpone the scheduled cuts in benefits for families in the Temporary Assistance for Needy [...]

By: Kathryn Baer

Kathryn Baer — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:13:56 +0000

Sylvia, I don’t think that District leaders are deliberately keeping residents in poverty. It is true, however, that the TANF program hasn’t helped families achieve self-sufficiency as well as it should have.

One of the big problems now is that the Gray administration has a plan for reform, but benefits cuts will go forward before all the long-term families have gotten the services the plan promises. The other problem is that the time-limit clock will keep ticking for families who cannot meet the regular work requirements.

By: Sylvia Randolph

Sylvia Randolph — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:41:57 +0000

I don’t think they have given the people who have been on the system these past 6 years the true value of TANF as it has been reformed. Unfortunalty many people have not been given opporotunity to advance themselvs to independent financial stabilitly and away from dependecy. I know for myself what is going on in DC. The African American Leadership in the DC is very poor and I would also go as far to say purposely keeping people in poverty. If in 5 yrs 6,0000 people and now left with children to fend for themselves. It takes the individuale person and the system working together for the greater good.