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Welfare Receipt (AFDC/TANF) Between 1996, the year in which federal welfare reform was implemented, and 2005, the number of children receiving benefits from welfare declined by more than half. This continued a downward trend that started after 1995...> View Indicator Long-term Welfare Dependence Among children in families receiving any welfare (AFDC/TANF), more than a third received it for six or more years out of 10, and 15 percent received it for 9 or more years.... > View Indicator Food Stamp Receipt In 2005, 12.4 million children received food stamps, increasing from 11.8 million in 2004. The number of children receiving food stamps dropped by nearly a third in the years immediately following the enactment of federal welfare reform in 1996, but has risen each year since 2000... > View Indicator
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