Making Job Support and Child Care Work for TANF Families
A new report from the Urban Institute highlights the unique difficulty of providing workforce programs and quality child care to families receiving cash assistance through Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Supporting the Child Care and Workforce Development Needs of TANF Families finds that state TANF programs often fail to connect recipients to workforce development or child care, and that as a result TANF recipients make up less than 4 percent of adults receiving public workforce development services and just 14 percent of families receiving child care assistance through the Child Care and Development Fund. The authors recommend improved transparency and data sharing between TANF and other state programs for low-income families.