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In 1996, Congress passed and President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA; P.L. 104–193). This act replaced the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) entitlement program, dissolved Emergency Assistance (EA), eliminated the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training (JOBS) Program, and substituted a single capped block grant for states, the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program, the funding of which is based on prior state welfare spending (Corbett, 1997; Zaslow, Tout, Smith, & Moore, 1998). The intent of this new welfare law is to turn custodial parents into breadwinners; public assistance is intended to become only a short-term phase of transition to self-sufficiency (Kondratas, 1997, p. 1).
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Lerner, R.M., Sparks, E.E., McCubbin, L.D. (1999). The Importance of Diversity in Welfare Reform. In: Family Diversity and Family Policy: Strengthening Families for America’s Children. Outreach Scholarship, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5206-9_6
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