Over the past several years, the nation’s welfare system has experienced a dramatic overhaul as the federal government, in 1996, replaced the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program with the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program. In the process of reform, states were given a great deal of freedom to custom tailor their own welfare policy changes within their jurisdictions, subject to certain limits.

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