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Illegal immigrants are not eligible for AFDC, although their U.S.-born children are.
AFDC costs the federal government about $14 billion a year and states another $12 billion.
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.
[* Methodological fine print: "Welfare" means Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) or its successor program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
When AFDC started in the 1930s, two-thirds of children on welfare were there because of the death or incapacitation of a parent.