http://okpolicy.org/blog/budget/what-if-we-threw-a-recession-and-no-one-showed-up-at-the-welfare-office/ Oklahoma Policy Institute Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:30:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://okpolicy.org/blog/budget/what-if-we-threw-a-recession-and-no-one-showed-up-at-the-welfare-office/comment-page-1/#comment-1515 Numbers You Need – May 2009 | OK Policy Blog Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:46:13 +0000 http://okpolicy.org/blog/?p=717#comment-1515 [...] As the downturn deepens, participation in the Food Stamp program and Medicaid continues to grow, but fewer people are receiving TANF cash assistance benefits (see our blog entry “What if we threw a recession and no one showed up at the welfare office?“); [...] [...] As the downturn deepens, participation in the Food Stamp program and Medicaid continues to grow, but fewer people are receiving TANF cash assistance benefits (see our blog entry “What if we threw a recession and no one showed up at the welfare office?“); [...]

]]> http://okpolicy.org/blog/budget/what-if-we-threw-a-recession-and-no-one-showed-up-at-the-welfare-office/comment-page-1/#comment-1143 Nothing but a strand of the net: One in 37 Oklahomans has food stamps, nothing else | OK Policy Blog Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:33:00 +0000 http://okpolicy.org/blog/?p=717#comment-1143 [...] in the 1990’s  did not just “end welfare as we know it”; to a large extent, it ended welfare, period. Oklahoma’s Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) program has expanded somewhat in recent [...] [...] in the 1990’s  did not just “end welfare as we know it”; to a large extent, it ended welfare, period. Oklahoma’s Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) program has expanded somewhat in recent [...]

]]> http://okpolicy.org/blog/budget/what-if-we-threw-a-recession-and-no-one-showed-up-at-the-welfare-office/comment-page-1/#comment-324 Numbers you can’t make sense of–the falling welfare caseload | OK Policy Blog Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:33:38 +0000 http://okpolicy.org/blog/?p=717#comment-324 [...] have remarked before on  participation in the cash assistance portion of TANF and noted that we help a [...] [...] have remarked before on  participation in the cash assistance portion of TANF and noted that we help a [...]

]]> http://okpolicy.org/blog/budget/what-if-we-threw-a-recession-and-no-one-showed-up-at-the-welfare-office/comment-page-1/#comment-258 Holes in the net | OK Policy Blog Tue, 19 May 2009 14:03:30 +0000 http://okpolicy.org/blog/?p=717#comment-258 [...] receive cash assistance, compared to 21 percent nationally. As we noted in a recent blog post ( “What if we threw a recession and no one showed up at the welfare office?”), TANF caseloads continue to decline in Oklahoma even as poverty rates rise, more people are out of [...] [...] receive cash assistance, compared to 21 percent nationally. As we noted in a recent blog post ( “What if we threw a recession and no one showed up at the welfare office?”), TANF caseloads continue to decline in Oklahoma even as poverty rates rise, more people are out of [...]

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