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HAMDT 328 (104th)

An amendment in the nature of a substitute to transform the AFDC program into a program that successfully moves recipients from welfare to work. It significantly increases the funding for education, job training, employment services, and child care for welfare recipients--in order to help them move into the workforce. It requires states to have an increasing percentage of their AFDC caseload participate in JOBS programs over seven years, rising from 15% in FY 1997 to 50% in FY 2003. It imposes a work requirement and rewards states that move recipients from welfare to unsubsidized employment. It contains provisions to ensure that welfare recipients are better off economically by taking a job than by staying on welfare. It contains no changes in School Lunch, WIC, and other child nutrition programs; Food Stamps; SSI; and benefits for legal immigrants. Finally, it finances its spending increases for education, job training, and child care programs by raising the top corporate tax rate by 1.25% to 36.25%.

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