Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) originated from the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996. Twenty years later, TANF continues to fail to meet the needs of those living in poverty. Ever since welfare reform, states have been given too much flexibility in how to run local programs. As we know it, reform has not helped those it intended to: the people intertwined in systematic and cyclical poverty. ...