what a clown. He thinks it’s afdc
Mike Johnson: "Medicaid is intended, remember, as a safety net for young pregnant mothers and the elderly and disabled and vulnerable populations, not for young able-bodied men without dependents. Those are the kinds of people we're taking off the program."
May 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
what a clown. He thinks it’s afdc
January 18, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, AFDC, food stamps, FDA, NIH, OSHA...
November 6, 2024 at 8:55 AM
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, AFDC, food stamps, FDA, NIH, OSHA...
Totally fair to hit PRWORA/TANF pretty hard, but AFDC was also a pretty flawed program.
(And the expansions of programs like SNAP, EITC, and Medicaid are good)
(And the expansions of programs like SNAP, EITC, and Medicaid are good)
March 30, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Totally fair to hit PRWORA/TANF pretty hard, but AFDC was also a pretty flawed program.
(And the expansions of programs like SNAP, EITC, and Medicaid are good)
(And the expansions of programs like SNAP, EITC, and Medicaid are good)
About 30 years ago they used this same line of defense to end Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) which allowed single and lower income parents to house, feed and raise their own children while also getting an education or training so they could one day be self sufficient.
April 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
About 30 years ago they used this same line of defense to end Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) which allowed single and lower income parents to house, feed and raise their own children while also getting an education or training so they could one day be self sufficient.
Bring back AFDC but only for spouses of low-income workers.
Fund with $ now going to childcare for single, low-income working parents.
Fund with $ now going to childcare for single, low-income working parents.
The plan would shift money away from working parents and their child care providers, causing some to raise rates or even close. About 80% of families who currently get care subsidies have single working parents, most of them mothers.
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...
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Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones (Gift Article)
The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.
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September 5, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Bring back AFDC but only for spouses of low-income workers.
Fund with $ now going to childcare for single, low-income working parents.
Fund with $ now going to childcare for single, low-income working parents.
I was responsible for the MA governor’s AFDC budget. I left that job, just before Clinton was first elected, to go to law school. When he and Congress gutted AFDC in 1996, I saw it as a fundamental betrayal of the Dem party and the millions of people it hurt. I will never forgive or forget.
June 8, 2026 at 5:51 AM
I was responsible for the MA governor’s AFDC budget. I left that job, just before Clinton was first elected, to go to law school. When he and Congress gutted AFDC in 1996, I saw it as a fundamental betrayal of the Dem party and the millions of people it hurt. I will never forgive or forget.
This would have been a ludicrously ill-informed thing to say even when there was such a thing as AFDC. But now???
December 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This would have been a ludicrously ill-informed thing to say even when there was such a thing as AFDC. But now???
Didn't we dismantle AFDC in the 90s to stop "rewarding" <cough> some <cough> people for having children they couldn't afford? I'm qwhite certain this proposes to do just that for a different demographic.
April 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Didn't we dismantle AFDC in the 90s to stop "rewarding" <cough> some <cough> people for having children they couldn't afford? I'm qwhite certain this proposes to do just that for a different demographic.
January 18, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Today is an important day. The day that a modern social safety net began to take shape. The SSA created OASI, the AFDC (ADC at the time), and the earliest form of our UI system. The SSA wasn't perfect. Its programs directly and indirectly excluded African Americans at first...
90 years ago today, FDR signed the Social Security Act of 1935 into law.
August 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Today is an important day. The day that a modern social safety net began to take shape. The SSA created OASI, the AFDC (ADC at the time), and the earliest form of our UI system. The SSA wasn't perfect. Its programs directly and indirectly excluded African Americans at first...
Facts. My mother was accused of that. My father wasn’t a very successful child support provider so my mother had to get AFDC, food stamps, and Medicaid to take care of us. Welfare Queens, they called poor women with deadbeat husbands who were trying to support their children.
April 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Facts. My mother was accused of that. My father wasn’t a very successful child support provider so my mother had to get AFDC, food stamps, and Medicaid to take care of us. Welfare Queens, they called poor women with deadbeat husbands who were trying to support their children.
Yep, following republican’s lead, Aid to families with dependent children (AFDC) was destroyed in 1996. Clinton signed the bill dismantling it. While AFDC was still the law, single women / girls had some support if they continued a pregnancy.
December 19, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Yep, following republican’s lead, Aid to families with dependent children (AFDC) was destroyed in 1996. Clinton signed the bill dismantling it. While AFDC was still the law, single women / girls had some support if they continued a pregnancy.
Thanks, Bill Clinton, who destroyed AFDC.
February 24, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Thanks, Bill Clinton, who destroyed AFDC.
Best riposte of the day. Yes, Mike Johnson doesn't understand the difference between AFDC and Medicare.
May 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Best riposte of the day. Yes, Mike Johnson doesn't understand the difference between AFDC and Medicare.
The welfare state was alive and well under Reagan. (Clinton is the guy who killed AFDC.)
I've debated his response on AIDS many times. It was a big funding priority at HHS in his time. He didn't want to touch the issue, true. Nor did his Democratic opponents at the time.
I've debated his response on AIDS many times. It was a big funding priority at HHS in his time. He didn't want to touch the issue, true. Nor did his Democratic opponents at the time.
Killing off huge portions of the welfare state and generally turning the clock way back on the social safety net has got to be on the list. Also ignoring AIDS while so many died is pretty heinous.
June 20, 2026 at 2:12 AM
The welfare state was alive and well under Reagan. (Clinton is the guy who killed AFDC.)
I've debated his response on AIDS many times. It was a big funding priority at HHS in his time. He didn't want to touch the issue, true. Nor did his Democratic opponents at the time.
I've debated his response on AIDS many times. It was a big funding priority at HHS in his time. He didn't want to touch the issue, true. Nor did his Democratic opponents at the time.
The historical evidence of on this is clear. Exactly what happened with AFDC=>TANF.
November 24, 2024 at 4:19 AM
The historical evidence of on this is clear. Exactly what happened with AFDC=>TANF.
NAFTA, Defense of Marriage Act, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, the death of AFDC
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November 12, 2024 at 10:51 PM
NAFTA, Defense of Marriage Act, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, the death of AFDC
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I'm glad Sen Durbin is making this request but it should be viewed as an absolute scandal that the publication of these legal opinions will be a matter of executive grace, not law. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000194-42e4-d454-afdc-4afff70d0000
January 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I'm glad Sen Durbin is making this request but it should be viewed as an absolute scandal that the publication of these legal opinions will be a matter of executive grace, not law. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000194-42e4-d454-afdc-4afff70d0000
I used AFDC to become in nurse in 1975.
April 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I used AFDC to become in nurse in 1975.
TANF was at least conceptualized as an AFDC fix? (I'd agree it didn't work and to some extent is a non-program today).
March 30, 2026 at 8:56 PM
TANF was at least conceptualized as an AFDC fix? (I'd agree it didn't work and to some extent is a non-program today).
To put a sharper point on it, fund AFDC for spouses of low-income workers with $ from the childcare program created at the end of AFDC to enable single parents to meet work requirements.
September 5, 2026 at 8:57 PM
To put a sharper point on it, fund AFDC for spouses of low-income workers with $ from the childcare program created at the end of AFDC to enable single parents to meet work requirements.
No, this was a permanent realignment of the party. The AFDC was disolved and TANF was founded, which has always required a work requirement since then. No period of Democratic control has ever remedied this because the ideological heart of the party's leadership agrees with it.
June 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
No, this was a permanent realignment of the party. The AFDC was disolved and TANF was founded, which has always required a work requirement since then. No period of Democratic control has ever remedied this because the ideological heart of the party's leadership agrees with it.
As a kid, before my family was on food assistance (AFDC at the time), some days my siblings and I wouldn’t eat. This was especially true in the summer when we didn’t have access to free lunch at school. It’s hard for me to fathom the evil needed to deprive children of food.
May 23, 2025 at 2:38 AM
As a kid, before my family was on food assistance (AFDC at the time), some days my siblings and I wouldn’t eat. This was especially true in the summer when we didn’t have access to free lunch at school. It’s hard for me to fathom the evil needed to deprive children of food.