Yes. For twelve years, conservatives have dismissed `sky is falling'
social welfare advocates who said that TANF was predicated on an economy
without recessions and steady, reliable low wage work. An extension of
the law is due in 2010. Democrats want to include education as a work
credit, but if the economy is still cratering in 2010, they're going to
have go further and end the five year lifetime term limit.
Joel
Jim Devine wrote:
from Harper's WEEKLY: >Welfare rolls were growing for the first time
in a dozen years;... and companies including FedEx, Motorola, General
Motors, and Resorts International were forgoing contributions to
employee 401(k) plans. "It has been a grand experiment," said an
economics professor of employee-investment plans, "and it has
failed."<
Speaking of failed experiments, the successful operation of the "end
of welfare as we know it" (TANF, temporary aid for needy families,
replacing AFDC, aid to families with dependent children) seems
predicated on the general and relatively steady increase of low-wage
employment. If so, it's quite likely that TANF will break in the near
future.
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