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Publication Date: March 2004
Publisher: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Sharon Parrott; Shawn Fremstad
Research Area: Social conditions
Keywords: Executive privilege; Economic inequality; Economic projections; Welfare
Type: Report
Abstract:
TANF reauthorization legislation passed by the House of Representatives last year includes a controversial provision known as the “superwaiver.†This provision would give sweeping new authority to the Executive Branch to override, at the request of a state governor, almost any federal law or rule governing a long list of low-income programs, including the Food Stamp Program and the public housing program.