Saturday, June 16, 2012

This Week in Poverty: Disposable Families in Ohio


http://www.thenation.com/blog/168418/week-poverty-disposable-families-ohio
good example of why we should listen to the right and leave these kind of decisions to the states God help those with republican gov. 
Since January 2011, Ohio has thrown nearly 70,000 people—including 40,000 children—off of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) cash assistance program, called Ohio Works First (OWF). That’s nearly 25 percent of the state’s TANF caseload. The reason? The state faces up to $130 million in federal penalties if 50 percent of the adults receiving assistance don’t meet the federal work participation requirement by September 30.
“Seventy thousand people is more than the entire TANF roll in thirty-nine states,” saysJack Frech, director of the Athens County Department of Job and Family Services in Appalachian Ohio.
Since January 2011, Ohio has thrown nearly 70,000 people—including 40,000 children—off of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) cash assistance program, called Ohio Works First (OWF). That’s nearly 25 percent of the state’s TANF caseload. The reason? The state faces up to $130 million in federal penalties if 50 percent of the adults receiving assistance don’t meet the federal work participation requirement by September 30.
“Seventy thousand people is more than the entire TANF roll in thirty-nine states,” says Jack Frech, director of the Athens County Department of Job and Family Services in Appalachian Ohio
system rigged to penalize those for the right wing indulgence's like war that put the programs in jeopardy in the first place, sounds like making women give birth then don't lift a finger to help in any way not even prevention. yet America there is "NO WAR ON WOMEN".

the richest country in the world, the best country in the world, the mightiest country in the world, American exceptionalism, correct everything "except it's people"