Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is one of the most important cash assistance programs for low-income ...

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is a crucial program that offers financial support to families experiencing economic hardship across the United States. Federally funded but administered ...

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With all the big changes happening politically and economically, many American families are worried that programs they have counted on in the past may go away — and they could go hungry because of it.

Food insecurity and poor nutrition afflict millions of Americans with low incomes. Three policy approaches to address these challenges are widely debated: modifying existing cash-like food assistance ...

We estimate and compare impacts of cash and in-kind transfers on the consumption of temptation goods in the same population, and explore normative implications. We use two decades of data from South ...

Starting this month, New Yorkers receiving cash assistance could be at risk of losing their benefits if they don’t show that they are working, enroll in a job search program — or show that they can’t ...

Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Fall 2025 Magazine. You can subscribe here. When he ran for president, Bill Clinton promised to “end welfare as we know it.” In 1996, Clinton signed ...