What’s love (styles) got to do with it?

The Uncertain Hour

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🗓️ 26 May 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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What do you think of when you think of welfare? Probably something along the lines of help or money given to families living in poverty. Or, work requirements to receive assistance.

But actually, in 2014 only 23 out of every 100 poor families received basic cash assistance. That’s partly because states have a lot of discretion in deciding how to spend federal welfare block grants, known as Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, or TANF.

States spend welfare money on the obvious things, like childcare and work-related activities. They also spend a significant chunk on some very surprising things, which you can see using this online tool from Marketplace.

We took a trip to Oklahoma to hang out in a marriage class for middle-income couples, funded by — you guessed it — your taxpayer dollars.

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	All right, so we're going to talk about love styles.
0:04.4	It's a Thursday night in Oklahoma City,
0:06.6	and I'm in a crowded conference room.
0:08.7	Love styles, right?
0:10.4	At the front, there's a guy with a white goatee in a polo shirt.
0:13.4	Let me ask you something.
0:14.4	His name is Scott Roby, and he's pointing at a slide
0:17.8	with the image of a big colorful heart on it.
0:21.3	The hearts divided up into different quadrants,
0:23.6	labeled with different love styles.
0:26.1	There's do be give encouraged talk and touch.
0:29.2	Those are the six different dimensions or love styles.
0:33.5	And we all have all of these within us.
0:36.7	But Scott says in every person, one or two love styles
0:40.8	really rise to the top.
0:42.5	Like if you're a doer, actions are an expression of love.
0:46.4	Maybe cooking a meal, doing a chore of theirs
0:50.2	that they typically do, doing a load of laundry.
0:53.0	Oh, I said the L word, but yeah, you know, something like that.
0:56.7	The audience is leaning in now.
0:58.9	People are nudging each other, giving knowing looks
1:01.6	when their love style comes up.
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