Rector and Marshall       2       Federal Spending on TANF

• Temporary Assistance for Aid to Families- included work requirements and a time limit on aid- spent $17.1 billion
• spent $717 billion on all means- tested welfare programs

Rector and Marshall   2     War on Poverty

• Since the beginning of the War on Poverty in the mid 1960s, means-tested spending has increased
• this shows that the 1996 reform was too far narrow to slow the growth of the welfare system 

Rector and Marshall    3      Only Benfits the Poor

• material living conditions of the poor have improved, but dependence on public assistance (taxpayers) has grown
• they now live high compared to that of the past because of welfare

Rector and Marshall    4     Negative Effects of Welfare

• the result of welfare has been the disintegration of the work ethic, family structure, and large segments of the American population, which has turned into a dependency class

Rector and Marshall     4   Collapse of Marriage

• 71% of all officially poor families with children, the parents are divorced
• if unmarried mothers remain single, more than half will be poor, which means more people living off of welfare