Welfare To Work

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d her rent; she would not have moved in with her brother where a handgun was available; she would have not only had the time to properly supervise her child, she surely would have done so and in a responsible manner. Therefore, the state is largely to blame for Kayla’s death.
During the year 2000, the year of Kayla’s death, there were a variety of social programs available to Tamarla Owens, which were designed to assist her with meeting the needs of herself and her family. All of these state programs were implementations of programs instituted at the federal level.
The first program available to Owens was Family Independence Program, or FIP. This was Michigan’s version of the federal welfare program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF. In 1996, the federal government added an additional component to TANF known as Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, or PRWORA. Michigan’s implementation of this component is known as Work First, although ...