TANF Emergency Fund, Welfare-To-Work Program That Created 240,000 Jobs, Nears End

Advocates of a welfare-to-work program created by last year’s stimulus bill are calling on Congress not to jeopardize some 240,000 jobs by letting the program expire at the end of September.

Republicans and a handful of moderate Senate Democrats blocked a reauthorization of TANF Emergency Fund back in March. The progressive Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reported Thursday that as the program’s Sept. 30 horizon looms, “states are ramping down their subsidized jobs programs, stopping new placements and giving notice that existing jobs will end.”

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