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COVID-19 revealed the importance of these supports, yet ongoing funding cuts and restrictive policies reduce access for low-income households. Evidence shows work requirements fail to improve employment outcomes and disproportionately burden low-wage, immigrant, and Black and other families, while child care costs and caregiving needs remain unmet. 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This harms children’s well-being and reduces opportunities for both short- and long-term success.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"What does evidence say about whether work requirements improve employment outcomes?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"Evidence indicates that work requirements have failed to improve employment outcomes for participants and should not serve as a model for other assistance programs.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"Why are work requirements particularly difficult for low-wage and immigrant families?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"Employment documentation is often hard to obtain due to schedule instability, variable hours, cash payment practices, and limited access to pay stubs. 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These programs not only lift millions of children out of poverty each year, but also have positive long-term benefits. Children in families who accessed these programs have higher educational attainment, better health, and are likely to earn more as adults.1  \nUpon the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, these programs provided lifelines to millions of struggling families. As our country continues to recover, families face the challenges of low wages, skyrocketing rents, unaffordable child care, and the high cost of everyday goods such as food. Key assistance programs exist to supplement resources for families that are struggling to make ends meet.  \nWeakening these assistance programs by imposing funding cuts, work requirements, unreasonable time limits, and other unnecessary bureaucratic barriers undermines access to services for low income families and undercuts opportunities for their children. These actions often hurt children with the greatest need, creating categories of deservedness of children that negatively impact their well-being and harm their short-term and long-term success. Holding children back in this way has adverse consequences for our economy and doesn’t reflect the values of our nation.  \nData shows that in most low-income households with children, at least one family member is already working. For example, almost 90% of households with children work in the year before or after receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits and more than 60% work while receiving SNAP.2 Work requirements add a layer of bureaucracy by forcing families to document their existing employment.  \nThe racist roots of work requirements for benefit programs extend far back into our nation’s history, starting with the slave trade and continuing today, as racist stereotypes persist about Black and other people of color’s willingness to work.3 Policymakers specifically designed the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, which replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) in 1996, to limit assistance to Black mothers and children. TANF places extremely arduous administrative burdens on participants, such as strict work requirements, family caps, and time limits, and provides meager cash assistance in many places. Nearly 30 years of evidence show that TANF’s work requirements have failed to improve employment outcomes for program participants, and it should not be a model for other assistance programs.4  \nDocumenting work is especially onerous for low-wage workers who often have no control over their schedules and whose hours may vary from week to week. Workers in immigrant households are more likely to be paid in cash and to lack pay stubs or paychecks, making employment verification difficult. Certain employers may be unwilling to provide a letter of  \nFIRST FOCUS | WORK REQUIREMENTS AND OTHER OBSTACLES ON CHILDREN AND FAMILIES | APRIL 2023 1  \nTHE HARMFUL CONSEQUENCES OF WORK REQUIREMENTS AND OTHER OBSTACLES TO SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES  \nemployment verification.5 Furthermore, some parents are self-employed or may not have an employer available to provide verification. Work requirements also do not account for uncompensated childrearing and caretaking of family members, work that produces large benefits to the collective whole. Grandparents caring for grandchildren, or parents caring forchildren with disabilities or special health care needs face particular barriers to economic security.  \nRather than fostering economic mobility, work requirements prevent parents and caretakers from accessing assistance programs and support, hindering healthy child development and putting additional burdens on struggling families. A 2019 nonpartisan study ","cbCaivt08b6itI5U","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivt08b6itI5U","pdf",329772,"English","# Work requirements and access to services\n## Benefits for children and long-term outcomes\n## COVID-19 impact and current family challenges\n## How work requirements undermine economic security\n# Evidence on outcomes and administrative burdens\n## Employment verification barriers\n## Historical and racial roots of work requirements\n## Child care costs and developmental impacts\n## Policy risks for FY2024 budget","[{\"question\":\"What harms do work requirements and bureaucratic obstacles cause for children and families?\",\"answer\":\"They weaken access to assistance programs by adding barriers such as funding cuts, unreasonable limits, and administrative burdens. This harms children’s well-being and reduces opportunities for both short- and long-term success.\"},{\"question\":\"What does evidence say about whether work requirements improve employment outcomes?\",\"answer\":\"Evidence indicates that work requirements have failed to improve employment outcomes for participants and should not serve as a model for other assistance programs.\"},{\"question\":\"Why are work requirements particularly difficult for low-wage and immigrant families?\",\"answer\":\"Employment documentation is often hard to obtain due to schedule instability, variable hours, cash payment practices, and limited access to pay stubs. Some parents are also self-employed or lack employers who can provide verification.\"}]","THE HARMFUL CONSEQUENCES OF WORK REQUIREMENTS AND OTHER OBSTACLES ON CHILDREN AND FAMILIES - April 2023 update | PDF",1792048759,25]