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kevin.aslanian

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  Make Data Available to the Public

  I have requested TANF data from HHS way back in March. They promised to have it mid April, but that was an unkept promise. FOIA tracking number is 032720092006. We need data to evaluate the performance of Government and make suggestions, recommendations. The federal government does not like to hear suggestions and recommendations and make sure we cannot float ideas that make sense by withholding information from the ...more »

  I have requested TANF data from HHS way back in March. They promised to have it mid April, but that was an unkept promise. FOIA tracking number is 032720092006.

  We need data to evaluate the performance of Government and make suggestions, recommendations. The federal government does not like to hear suggestions and recommendations and make sure we cannot float ideas that make sense by withholding information from the public.

  NEW PROPOSED RULE: All information received from the States shall be posted on the net as received. Federal agencies often withhold the information before they get permission from the states to release Public Information. It is public when it leaves the State.

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  Submitted by kevin.aslanian 4 years ago

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  TANF

  Before TANF 70% of the money was used for "payments too families". Now 30% of the money is used payments for families. States are cutting TANF so they can use the money to balance their budgets. In California TANF has already contributed $15 billion to the California General Fund according to the Schwarzanegger Administration who is proposing to eliminate CalWORKs. Under TANF participation is a state option. So if sadistic ...more »

  Before TANF 70% of the money was used for "payments too families". Now 30% of the money is used payments for families.

  States are cutting TANF so they can use the money to balance their budgets. In California TANF has already contributed $15 billion to the California General Fund according to the Schwarzanegger Administration who is proposing to eliminate CalWORKs.

  Under TANF participation is a state option. So if sadistic Schwsarzanegegr decides to abolish the TANF program what happens to all of the kids.

  PROPOSAL: (1) Mandate that at 70% of the TANF money be used for "payments to families" ; (2) If the State does not want to operate the TANF program, then the federal government should; (3) maybe the federal government should operate the TANF program so more of the money would go to the poor and not waste so much money on the huge state welfare bureaucracy.

  SSI used to be operated by the states, now it is done by the feds better than the States. Stop wasting money on the bureaucracy and use the money for the families.

  Moreover, more money given to the poor, the higher the economic stimulus is.

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  Submitted by kevin.aslanian 4 years ago

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