“Tightening the belt on Georgia’s TANF Program: Doing more with less in FY 2008 and beyond”

“This report tracks the federally funded Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF) appropriations across the Department of Human Resources. As TANF caseloads have dropped, higher funding priority has been directed toward child welfare programs rather than child care, transportation, and job training programs that would directly help families achieve economic self-sufficiency. As the TANF budget faces federal funding shortfalls in the coming years, policy makers will have to decide between further reducing work assistance programs and/or making larger investments of state funds to critical child welfare programs.”

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