Family Support Act Of 1988 Hearing Before The Subcommittee On Human Resources Of The Committee On Ways And Means House Of Representatives One H

Author : United States Congress
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260101655
Total Pages : 214 pages
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Download or read book Family Support Act of 1988 written by United States Congress and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Family Support Act of 1988: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, March 15, 1994 The Family Support Act of 1988 also established a new education, training, and employment program, called the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training (jobs) program. The program provides States flexibility within Federal guidelines to help needy families with children reduce the degree to which they depend on afdc for income and avoid long-term enrollment in the afdc program. State jobs programs must provide a broad range of services, including education, job training, and job readiness activities. Programs also must include at least two out of the following four activities job search, community work experience (work in exchange for welfare), grant diversion (welfare used to provide and subsidize a job), or oh-the-job-training. Under the jobs program, States are required to achieve certain rates of participation among afdc families. Some afdc parents, mainly the ill or disabled and those caring for young children, are exempt from participation, but may volunteer. States must require the nonexempt to participate, to the extent resources are available. In general, Federal funding for jobs program costs is available as a capped entitlement. The entitlement level equals billion for fiscal year 1994 In order to access Federal funds, States are required to match Federal spending at a rate that varies by State, but generally is no more than 40 percent. Federal matching is reduced if a State fails to target 55 percent of funds on specified priority populations families in which the parent is under age or if the State fails to meet participation standards. At the hearing, the Subcommittee will receive testimony from researchers and representatives of the States about the progress States have made in implementing the jobs provisions, about the various approaches States have taken and their experiences to date, about their ability to meet Federal participation standards and to pursue their particular State philosophy, and about what is known of the jobs program's effectiveness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.