Other states offer second chances to the parent. While few want to toss children out in the street, there are a number of conservative California lawmakers who believe hard choices must be made given the tough fiscal times for taxpayers. Of those being helped in the state, nearly , are families. Nationally, about 1. The Urban Institute reports that in the calendar year, , children in California received aid even though their parents were ineligible.
Nationally, there were , children being aided in households with no parent qualifying for assistance. California recipients can qualify for a partial grant even if they go to work, depending on how much the job pays. The state explains that policy this way: allowing families to have a small paycheck from a job offers an incentive to re-enter the workforce and move to self-sufficiency quicker. The state also picks up the tab, if slots and funding are available, for a number of expenses recipients incur while preparing for a job.
Those include subsidized day care, training fees, transportation, books and uniforms,. Under the program, called Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, or TANF, the federal government caps block grants to states instead of open-ended amounts.
Congress also gave states more authority to establish their own spending policies. As a result, some states spend more on services rather than direct grants. Arizona in June reported helping nearly 40, recipients. It has a month time limit for most recipients, but does keep aiding their children when parents are disqualified. Texas does provide noncash help, such as child care and transportation. Washington as of June had , recipients.
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These overhauls were widely recognized as a big success, as welfare rolls plummeted and millions of former aid recipients entered the workforce. In fact, California recipients of state aid receive a disproportionately large share of it in no-strings-attached cash disbursements. Immigrants are falling into it: 55 percent of immigrant families in the state get some kind of means-tested benefits, compared with just 30 percent of natives, according to City Journal contributing editor Kay S. Self-interest in the social-services community may be at work here.
As economist William A. Niskanen explained back in , public agencies seek to maximize their budgets, through which they acquire increased power, status, comfort, and job security. With , full-time-equivalent state and local employees in , according to Governing , California has an enormous bureaucracy—a unionized, public-sector workforce that exercises tremendous power through voting and lobbying.
Many work in social services. Californians spent more than one-third of their incomes on housing in , the third-highest rate in the country. A shortage of housing has driven prices ever higher, far above income increases.
And that shortage is a direct outgrowth of misguided policies. CEQA costs have been known to shut down entire home-building projects. Extensive environmental regulations aimed at reducing carbon-dioxide emissions make energy more expensive, also hurting the poor.
Housing affordability is a problem throughout California, even in areas where housing costs are lower, because incomes are also lower in these areas. While inflation-adjusted median household rents increased by This decline in hourly wages for most workers is only one component of a broader picture of changes in the labor market — including a decline in employer-sponsored retirement plans, a drop in union representation, and a small but rising share of workers engaged in gig work — such that many Californians can no longer count on their jobs to provide economic security.
Housing costs in many parts of California are higher than the national average, as reflected in the relatively high poverty thresholds for many metro areas within the state under the SPM. At the same time, the measurable impact of public supports in reducing poverty suggests that smart public investments to help individuals meet basic needs, together with a strong economy, can help more Californians achieve economic security.
State policymakers have taken several important steps in recent years to help address the challenges that residents with low incomes face in making ends meet. Thoughtful public policies can help make basic necessities like housing, child care, and health care more affordable; can help ensure that incomes for all Californians, not just the highest-paid workers, better match the rising cost of living; and can help restore the promise that all California workers get to share in the economic prosperity that they help to create.
The state-level figures released today reflect average annual supplemental poverty rates during a three-year period, from to
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