ilies (TANF) block grant. TANF gives the individual states the option to aid all qualifying families. The PRWORA requires that their recipients work eligible for TANF benefits. Supplemental Security Income (SSI) supplies cash benefits monthly for those people whom are of the age 65 and older, blind, or disabled and do not have much to their name or a big income. The overall idea is that in order for progress to occur or for childhood poverty to decrease, they need to have programs that benefit the parents as well as their children. A child is an incredible gift. As a pre-parent, you anxiously wait for nine months for the biggest and toughest job of you lifeparenthood. Along with parenthood comes the largest amount of responsibility anyone has even been faced with. Their job is to raise their children, and show them the world. Everything is brand new to them, and as a parent, they are the ones who will be introducing their children to everything. The last thing any parent would want for their child is to have tem grow up in poverty. Every year we spend so much money to report to the public that there are children living in poverty. Why spend millions of dollars campaigning an issue which his already known worldwide? That money should be taken and used to help people lift their children and themselves out of poverty. Progress will not be made of we are just going to sit their and cry about it. Childhood poverty is a large issue, which has been and still needs to be dealt with....
