Example sentences for: afdc

How can you use “afdc” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The decline in AFDC rolls started in 1994, when, for example, the poverty rate among African-Americans declined from 33.

  • Add other federal expenditure for AFDC families--food stamps ($12 billion), Medicaid ($17 billion, with another $13 billion in state spending), and harder-to-calculate expenditure for housing, child care, social services, and so forth--and total federal expenditure for AFDC families exceeds $50 billion a year, or roughly 4 percent of federal outlays.

  • AFDC payments ranged from 11 percent of the official poverty line in Mississippi to about 65 percent in New York's Suffolk County.

  • Of the 9.4 million children on AFDC in 1994, about 38 percent were African-American, 21 percent Hispanic, and 33 percent non-Hispanic white.

  • States also have to contribute 75 percent of the money that they used to spend on AFDC to the new Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program--the so-called Maintenance of Effort (MOE) requirement.


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