House
Jun 20, 2001

To expand the purposes of the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families to include poverty reduction, and to make grants available under the program for that purpose.

Summary

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Child Poverty Reduction Act -Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to: (1) make it an additional purpose of TANF to reduce poverty of families with children in the United States; and (2) require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make child poverty reduction bonus grants to any State whose child poverty rate for a completed calendar year is less than the rate the State achieved during the preceding calendar year.

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Introduced(6/13/01)
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.

Jun 20, 2001