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On the recordMarch 22, 2021
Governor Scott Walker, Rep. Paul Ryan admonished us to accept the TANF program as a system that would provide a trampoline on poverty rather than welfare serving as a hammock.
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William Ryan
Democratic · New York

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Ryan urged acceptance of TANF as a means to escape poverty, contrasting it with welfare dependency.

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