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Immigration has not had a big effect on the AFDC caseloads of most communities, although it has a substantial impact in places like California, where non-citizens account for about 15 percent of all persons on the program.
When AFDC started in the 1930s, two-thirds of children on welfare were there because of the death or incapacitation of a parent.
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.
[* Methodological fine print: "Welfare" means Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) or its successor program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
Critics of government welfare programs often ridicule the notion that people would starve in the streets or die of untreated diseases without AFDC, food stamps, Medicaid, etc.