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[Page: E110]  GPO's PDF
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• Mr. HILLIARD. Mr. Speaker, I rise to address the needs of the poor in America. We have distorted the meaning and purpose of our programs for the poor--our purpose should not be to get people off of public assistance, but to assist them in becoming economically secure and self-sufficient. When they become self-sufficient, they will be off the roles and make an economic contribution to American society. In this way, they pay us back for their opportunity.

• At present, the measurement of TANF is in the number of people removed from the welfare roles--it should be the number of people who have been trained and have become self-sufficient. Any other measure is not only inadequate, but self-defeating.

• I have long said that education is the key to the future, and TANF absolutely must accept education as an allowable work activity. Participation in educational training should ``stop the clock'' on expiration of benefits, because the jobs they would get in the future would pay society back many times.

• America must return to its historic role as the nation of hope, not the nation of dead ends.
  

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