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<blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 2217460" data-attributes="member: 18225"><p><a href="http://www.marketplace.org/2016/06/09/wealth-poverty/how-welfare-money-funds-college-scholarships" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>How welfare money funds college scholarships.</strong></span></a></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>..."For budget experts, however, it's a curious case of how federal welfare money has been redirected since the 1996 welfare reform law created a program called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. Publicly available data show that Michigan spends the greatest chunk of its welfare money on out-of-wedlock pregnancy prevention, about 33 percent of the $700 million it receives from federal government each year. What does reducing unmarried pregnancy have to do with higher education? </em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>Turns out, just under $100 million of that federal welfare money goes toward college scholarships for Michigan students. Not just low-income students. Half of the scholarship money is available to middle and upper-middle class families. And yet, Michigan spends just a little more — $167 million in state and federal funds— on traditional welfare checks for poor families..."</em></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrownArmy, post: 2217460, member: 18225"] [URL='http://www.marketplace.org/2016/06/09/wealth-poverty/how-welfare-money-funds-college-scholarships'][SIZE=4][B]How welfare money funds college scholarships.[/B][/SIZE][/URL] [SIZE=4][I]..."For budget experts, however, it's a curious case of how federal welfare money has been redirected since the 1996 welfare reform law created a program called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. Publicly available data show that Michigan spends the greatest chunk of its welfare money on out-of-wedlock pregnancy prevention, about 33 percent of the $700 million it receives from federal government each year. What does reducing unmarried pregnancy have to do with higher education? Turns out, just under $100 million of that federal welfare money goes toward college scholarships for Michigan students. Not just low-income students. Half of the scholarship money is available to middle and upper-middle class families. And yet, Michigan spends just a little more — $167 million in state and federal funds— on traditional welfare checks for poor families..."[/I][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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