So the peckerwoods at the Arizona legislature did what they said they were going to do last year when the state budget was in shambles:
On Friday, Arizona became the most stringent state in the nation for aid to poor families raising children.
That's when a one-year lifetime limit on cash assistance kicked in for families receiving help from the Temporary Aid to Needy Families program. It means an estimated 2,500 people — including 1,500 kids — will no longer qualify for the modest stipends the program provides. The average payment is $278.
The feds allow states to provide up to five years of assistance under the TANF program, and many states do. As of last year Arizona was one of a few states that allowed only two years before they booted poor families off the program. That’s not two years in a row, it’s two years total.
It was bad enough last year when the Republican cabbage-heads passed this vile policy, claiming the reduction was necessary because the budget was in the toilet. But now the state is running a surplus, and even though Democrats and advocates for children and the poor have urged the legislature to reinstate the modest two-year limit, the GOP scumbuckets, prompted by Gov. Ducey, won’t budge.
"Are you kidding me?" asked Darlene Newsome, who runs the UMOM shelter for homeless families. "Are they telling people you can only be extremely poor for one year in your life?”
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