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Examines the far-reaching & often disastrous impacts of the 1996 replacement of the federal Aid to Families With Dependent Children (AFDC) program & the JOBS (Job Opportunities & Basic Skills) program with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant, which gives federal funds to states to administer their own programs of limited benefits & stringent workfare requirements. This change may force millions of people into the desperate poverty that results from minimum-wage, no-benefit jobs, & will likely displace some higher-paid workers. Corporations see federal disinvolvement in welfare operations as an opportunity to reap the financial benefits of privatization proposals. Such attitudes have created the necessary conditions for the development of oppositional grassroots & legislative efforts, & popular resistance in the form of coalitions of workfare mothers, union members, feminists, low-income women, single parents, senior citizens, & minority groups & community organizations dedicated to obtaining health care, housing, child care, & education for those who need it. B. Wolfe

Assesses the Contract with America's Person Responsibility Act (PRA), which proposes to convert the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program into a federal block grant & to turn the program over to the states. According to Newt Gingrich Republicans, the PRA will end dependency by getting welfare recipients back to work & will strengthen family values by denying support to unwed teenage mothers. By showing how means testing stigmatizes welfare recipients, how key features of the PRA have already failed at the state level, & how forcing AFDC mothers into the work force will lead to a host of new problems, it is argued that the PRA will make the lives of the poor significantly more miserable than they already are by taking away their only economic lifeline. M. Maguire

The article studies the various mechanisms regarding paid family and medical programs in the United States. The author examines the (FLMA) Family and Medical Leave Act, the (AWSA) Alternative Work Schedules Act, National Defense Authorization Act, and (TDI) Temporary Disability Insurance programs. The author compares these programs in the United States versus comparable options in other nations such as Sweden or in European Union countries. The author then examines employers policies regarding paid leave, utilizing data found in studies regarding such polices, studying the gaps left by FMLA. The article explores both the benefits and costs to employees and employers, from which the authors apply a simulation model listing estimates, refuting arguments that state paid leaves programs are too costly; also including thoughts on employer opposition to FMLA and the road ahead. Adapted from the source document.