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Caring for the children of another poor woman and vice-versa, that constitutes as work under tanf. i want to talk about women who are getting temporary assistance for needy family or not getting it in the jaws of this recession. impact wool exports from new zealand, textile production in spain, and the use of medical technology in the u.s.? at t. rowe price, we understand the connections of a complex, global economy. it's just one reason 75% of our mutual funds beat their 10-year lipper average. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. request a prospectus or summary prospectus with investment i...

To be lazy and dependant. it aculturated you to not be part of the normal mainstream society, so you had to be pushed out into the workforce. and whether it's good policy or not. it seems to me like there's a double standard about what we call work. that when it's a very poor mother with three kids at home, it is not work. she needs to learn how the dignity of work. but when it is an extremely wealthy woman with five kids at home and again that is work. being in the home with kids -- as the father of a 4 1/2-month-old, there's no question, that's work. i find the double standard that has crept...

But that hasn't always been the tune of republicans on this issue. an entire massive sea change in federal policy, the welfare and reform act of 1996 was predicated on the fundamental notion that mothers on welfare needed to get out of the home and go to work. and that staying at home and caring for their children did not count as work. in fact, as recently as this year, mitt romney himself campaigned on the proposition that meaningful welfare reform should require parents with children to get out of the home and into the workforce, listen to how he talked about work and stay at home parents j...

Last year the house of representatives passed legislation to build on the successes of the 1996 welfare reform law. they did so because they want more americans to know the pride and success that come from hard work. the law passed the house, that passed the house requiring 40 hours of work each week. >> the first stage of welfare reform brought unprecedented success. millions of americans now knows the rewards of work. welfare mothers have found their long-lost self-esteem. >> he want to stop the dependency that government has created with all of these entitlement programs. we want to give pe...

This privatized cost of figuring out what on earth you're supposed to do when you go back to work, if you're lucky to be able to stay at home for a little bit while your child is an infant. what are you supposed to do. you know, are you rich enough to afford a nanny? are you able to do child, you know, center-based child care? are you going to join some sort of waiting list that is interminable for head start. even the vast majority of poor families are not able to get into subsidized child care. we're the only industrialized country that just doesn't think it should be a public concern. >> it...