Everything but the kitchen sink

The Uncertain Hour

Marketplace

Government, News

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

What do college scholarships, marriage counseling classes and crisis pregnancy centers have in common? In some states, they’re funded by federal welfare dollars.

We are continuing our cross-country tour where we drop in on states to investigate how they spend welfare money, known as Temporary Assistance to Needy Families or TANF. This week: Michigan. The state spends about $100 million a year in TANF dollars on college scholarships—and many recipients are from families that earn more than $100,000 year.

Meanwhile, just 18 out of every 100 families living in poverty receives basic cash assistance.

If you’re curious about how your state spends federal welfare dollars, check out this online tool from Marketplace.

Welcome back to “The Uncertain Hour,” the Wealth & Poverty desk’s new podcast hosted by Senior Correspondent Krissy Clark.

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0:00.0	Explained for somebody you can't see what's going on right now.
0:04.6	What the hell is going on?
0:06.6	Okay, so I guess you call it a rave dance.
0:11.4	There's people on your dancing and having fun with some glow lights right in front of them.
0:16.2	All our white t-shirts and everything are glowing right now.
0:19.6	I'm in a dark gymnasium on the campus of Adrian College, an expensive private college in
0:25.7	South Eastern Michigan.
0:27.6	It's crazy in here.
0:29.0	There are students engulfed in giant plastic bubbles playing soccer, students squirting
0:34.6	glow in the dark paint at each other.
0:37.0	And then Hunger Games archery, this people hiding around giant inflatable cones basically
0:45.2	shooting the opposition with toy arrows.
0:49.4	So this is pretty cool.
0:50.6	This is basically one of many Adrian College events that they put on for us.
0:56.2	So the reason I've come here to Adrian College, except the whole that thought, I'm going
1:01.2	to break the fourth wall now and turn down the rave music because it is hurting my brain.
1:07.3	Ah, much better.
1:09.1	Okay, so the reason I've come here to Adrian College is that it's part of a little cross country
1:14.9	tour I'm on.
1:16.3	And if you've been listening to this podcast series from the beginning, you already know
1:19.7	the general theme of that tour, welfare.
1:23.1	Yes, very sexy.
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