Single mothers with children are the majority of those receiving welfare. New federal regulations will limit their time for education, time with children, or even domestic-violence counseling.

Stiffer work and reporting requirements for the federal welfare program Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, fail to recognize mothers' needs for training, education and child care to make their families self sufficient, women's advocacy groups say.

"The new regulations are a continuation of the misguided 'work first' approach that has been the hallmark of welfare reform," says Erin Mohan, public policy director for Washington-based advocacy organization, Women Work! "This strategy forces women into low-wage, low-skilled, dead-end jobs; jobs that don't pay the bills and can't support families."

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As long as welfare payments are higher than the minimum wage these moms might earn if they did find work, there's no incentive for them to try to better themselves.

Thank you so much for this article Lefty! They are misguided also when it comes to disabled folks !

If these bureaucracies only went after oil companies, defense contractors and lobbyists with that much venom