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Publication Date: November 2003
Publisher: Center for Law and Social Policy
Author(s): Nisha Patel; Mark Greenberg
Research Area: Labor; Social conditions
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
This paper discusses a provision in an appropriations bill passed by the U.S. Senate that would rescind $211 million in Welfare-to-Work funding that states and localities had been authorized to spend over the next year. The loss of these funds would force states and localities to reduce or eliminate programs providing employment services for welfare recipients with serious employment barriers.
This paper urges the House-Senate conference committee to reject the Senate provision, because it would force reductions in needed services at a time when states cannot compensate for the lost funding. Moreover, states and localities were authorized to spend these funds over the next year; a rescission would violate the express terms under which states and localities were authorized to use these funds.