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welfare went
Andrea Kane
05/08/2000 10:19 AM
Record Type:
Record
To:
Karin Kullman/OPD/EOP@EOP, Bruce N. Reed/OPD/EOP@EOP, Eric P. Liu/OPD/EOP@EOP, Anna
Richter/OPD/EOP@EOP
CC:
Margy Waller/OPD/EOP@EOP, Eugenia Chough/OPD/EOP@EOP
Subject: welfare event
Here's updated description of welfare event we've been trying to get on the the calendar.
Welfare to Work Progress:
We could:
1)
Release new welfare caseload numbers (from September 1999) showing the welfare rolls
have declined by 53% since the President took office and 46% since he signed the welfare reform
law. The number of people on welfare has fallen to 6.6 million (down by almost 300,000 since
the June 99 figures we released in December). We're now at the lowest level in 31 years (since
1968) and at the lowest percent of the population on welfare in 33 years (since 1966).
2)
Announce that under the federal welfare to work hiring initiative led by the Vice
President, the federal government has hired nearly 29,000 welfare recipients- more than
double our goal to hire 10,000 individuals by the year 2000. (OPM is holding)
3)
Announce that, in the four years since the official launch at the White House in May
97, Welfare-to-Work Partneship has grown to 15,000 business partners. This would allow us
to highlight May 20th anniversary.
4)
Push Congress to enact our iniatives that help families moving from welfare to work
and other low-income working families to succeed: the 3 transportation initiative highlighted
on 2/23 (food stamp vehicle asset limit, IDAs for cars, Access to Jobs), Fathers
Work/Families Win, Welfare-to-Work extension for current grantees, housing vouchers,
EITC, child care.
5)
Urge states to invest TANF funds in helping families move to self-sufficiency, not to
supplant state funds for unrelated purposes.
6)
Release two interagency guidances as examples of how the ongoing success of welfare
reform depends on everyone working together to help the 'hard to serve' remaining on the
rolls to make the transition to work and to help those who have entered the workforce to
succeed, move up, and stay off the rolls.
a) Updated HHS/DOT/DOL transportation guidance explaining how states and
communities can use TANF, Access to Jobs, and Welfare-to-Work funds for transportation
and the importance of coordinating these resource. This is updated version of guidance we
directed the agencies to do in 1998; it reflects final TANF rule, WtW amendments, latest
Access to Jobs information, and increased focus on cars. (This is in clearance now)
b) New HUD/HHS guidance for housing and welfare agencies on entering into
cooperative agreements to implement the public housing reform law. The law 1) requires
PHAs to make best efforts to enter into such cooperative agreements to target resources,
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