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The paper summarizes the research addressing the effects of TANF on family formation and suggests policies that would neither discourage marriage nor disadvantage children being raised in single-parent families.
It concludes with suggestions for state welfare agencies on improving access to services for families at risk for "disconnection".
This policy brief summarizes the research comparing women who have left welfare and are working, with "the disconnected" who tend to be very poor single mothers facing barriers to self-sufficiency, including less education, substance abuse, mental health issues, and domestic violence.
In particular, in 2008 one third of poor single mothers were neither working nor receiving cash assistance.
This paper explains that TANF has not successfully countered the effects of the recession between 2007-2010, or responded adequately to high unemployment. It includes comparison charts of state assistance levels and implications for unemployed families.
