Subject: Re: Welfare policy
From: "Ann O'Leary" <[email-masked]>
To: Mike Pyle <[email-masked]>
Cc: Jake Sullivan <[email-masked]>, Michael Shapiro <[email-masked]>, Neera Tanden <[email-masked]>, John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 13:39:54 -0800

Great. Our social mobility/poverty group also is writing a memo along these
lines. Let me check where they are with it and circle back.

Ann O’Leary
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On Feb 20, 2016, at 11:28 AM, Mike Pyle <[email-masked]> wrote:

Kamin, Shapiro, and I were talking about this earlier today -- as a result
of Annie's article.

In addition to direct TANF reform options, may also be sensible to discuss
making our CTC expansion fully refundable (the proposal now on the table is
only partially refundable with a phase-in).  Making it fully refundable
would be a (modest) step toward a basic income for families with small
children.

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On Feb 20, 2016, at 1:27 PM, Jake Sullivan <[email-masked]>
wrote:

We’ll look at some options.

*From:* Michael Shapiro [mailto:[email-masked]]
*Sent:* Saturday, February 20, 2016 1:23 PM
*To:* Neera Tanden <[email-masked]>; Michael Pyle <[email-masked]
>
*Cc:* Jake Sullivan <[email-masked]>; Ann O'Leary <
[email-masked]>; John Podesta <[email-masked]>
*Subject:* Re: Welfare policy

+Pyle, who's been making a similar case.

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Neera Tanden <[email-masked]> wrote:

Annie Lowry wrote a piece yesterday on bringing welfare back:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/02/bring-welfare-back.html

Rather than fully bringing it back, can we really reform it?  I think this
is something Sanders could really drive - in attacking 90s Clinton
centrism, as he did the other day.

CAP has put out ideas to help fix TANF.  They are here.

My advice is to do something real here and add it to the children's agenda;
get rid of 5 year limit - allow it to go to married couples; would also do
this jobs idea:
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/poverty/report/2015/01/29/105622/a-subsidized-jobs-program-for-the-21st-century/

Think we should consider doing this soon.

-- 

Michael Shapiro

Hillary for America

Policy

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