The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program is consolidating itself as a fundamental pillar for the economic ...

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program is a cornerstone of the United States' social safety net, offering essential support to low-income families. Established to help parents ...

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program for 2022 is set to provide support for families in the United States at a time when inflation and energy bills are soaring, making it more important ...

It has been nearly a decade since the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program was fully reauthorized, and funding levels have been flat for even longer. The last time funding for TANF ...

One little-noticed provision in the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill that marked the final act of the last Congress was another straight extension of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families ...

The Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis. Indiana ended 2022 with more than 136,000 job openings partly because hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers don’t have the skills needed to join the workforce.

Nearly 20 years after the watershed 1996 welfare law, something is not right. The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program that replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) in ...

Mississippi Senate and House Democrats heard updates and reform recommendations Tuesday on the state's welfare program from advocates and state officials. Among chief concerns expressed at a TANF ...

Tennessee is sitting on more than $730 million in unused federal block grant funds designed to help poor working families, a figure the conservative Beacon Center of Tennessee says is concerning. The ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — TANF: Temporary Assistance to Needy Families Program: It’s been modified to deal with the needs of survivors of the Maui’s wildfires. Governor Josh Green M.D. announced that the ...

A scandal involving former NFL quarterback Brett Favre and the federal welfare program Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) exploded last week following new revelations that Mississippi ...

Think Progress continues its annual tradition of surveying states that drug test applicants for benefits under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, or welfare. Arkansas is one ...