TITLE: Issues in TANF Reauthorization: Helping Hard-To-Employ Families

CIS-NO: 2003-S361-13  
SOURCE: Committee on Finance. Senate  
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony  
DOC-NO: S. Hrg. 107-842  
DATE: Apr. 25, 2002  
LENGTH: iii+46 p.  
CONG-SESS: 107-2  
ITEM-NO: 1038-A; 1038-B  
SUDOC: Y4.F49:S.HRG.107-842  
 
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-29533-0.

SUMMARY:
Hearing before the Subcom on Social Security and Family Policy to examine issues related to reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) State block grant program, established to reform welfare system and facilitate the movement of public assistance recipients into the workforce.
 
Focuses on strategies to assist TANF beneficiaries characterized as hard-to-employ and as facing serious barriers to reemployment, which may include substance abuse, mental illness, and other disabilities.
 
Supplementary material (p. 19-46) includes witnesses' written statements and submitted statements.

CONTENT-NOTATION: Welfare programs reform initiatives, reauthorization issues

DESCRIPTORS:  
   SUBCOM ON SOCIAL SECURITY AND FAMILY POLICY. SENATE;  DRUG ABUSE AND TREATMENT; EMPLOYMENT; FEDERAL AID TO STATES-PUBLIC WELFARE PROGRAMS; HANDICAPPED; MENTAL HEALTH AND ILLNESS; PUBLIC WELFARE PROGRAMS; TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES

03-S361-13 TESTIMONY NO: 1     Apr. 25, 2002 p. 3-28
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   METCALF, NATASHA K. (Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Human Services)
   LAUREANO, MICHELLE (parent)
   SMITH, STEPHANIE (Chief Operating Officer, Goodwill Industries of Southern Arizona)
   BUTLER, DAVID (Vice President, Manpower Demonstration Research Corp)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Views on strategies to promote self-sufficiency of hard-to-employ TANF beneficiaries; analysis of employment barriers for hard-to-employ, emphasizing need to address employment barriers in TANF assistance programs; recommendations regarding TANF reauthorization.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Welfare programs reform initiatives, reauthorization issues
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   MANPOWER DEMONSTRATION RESEARCH CORP.; TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES

LOAD-DATE: July 30, 2003