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'not only does TANF reach very few, and not only are typical benefits quite low, but those it reaches look nothing like common stereotype. one in four TANF recipients lives in a family with at least one *full-time* worker, four in ten live in a family with at least one person working either part time or full time, and six in ten live in a family where someone either currently works or is actively involved in searching for employment. for those families where no adult recipient of TANF is in the labor force, a disproportionate share of such cases involve households where the adult member of the family is at home caring for small children or the disabled. when it comes to households on TANF where no one is working, looking for work or disabled - in other words, households with an able-bodied adult who is 'doing nothing' in the eyes of the modern-day scrooges - only nine out of every one hundred recipient households fit this description. with about 1.2 million recipient households in all, this means only about 108,000 of them could even theoretically represent the image held by conservatives. at least ninety-two percent of such families fail to fit the image of those receiving welfare, yet the stereotype persists.' - tim wise
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