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In 1994, AFDC provided cash assistance to about 4.2 million single mothers and their children and about 335,000 two-parent families through the AFDC-Unemployed Parent program.
President Clinton ended the welfare program called Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) in 1996.
AFDC costs the federal government about $14 billion a year and states another $12 billion.
[* Methodological fine print: "Welfare" means Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) or its successor program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
States are free, for example, to redirect the money that they used to spend on matching federal AFDC grants (about 45 percent of the total) to provide help for families who have lost their "temporary assistance" coverage.