900 Lydia Street - Austin, Texas 78702 Phone (512) 320-0222 – fax (512) 320-0227 - www.cppp.org Funding State Services Conference State TANF Spending: Figuring Out Your State’s Priorities November 14, 2005 Eva De Luna Castro, Budget Analyst (deluna.castro@cppp.org)

Percent of Child Protection Funding in 2002 That Came from Federal TANF Funds (U.S. Average: 10%) 23% 17% 20% 19% 20% 24 16% 27% 27% 18% More than 15% 10% to 15% 6% to 9% 5% or less Sources: Urban Institute, The Cost of Protecting Vulnerable Children IV: How Child Welfare Funding Fared During the Recession, December 2004. Alaska, Delaware, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Tennessee, and Utah reported no federal TANF spending on child welfare.

& Transport./Supportive Svcs. Source: CBPP and CLASP analysis of ACF data reported by states. “All Other” includes Title XX transfers, Spending Authorized Under Prior Law, Individual Development Accounts, Refundable EITC and other Tax Credits, Nonrecurrent Short Term Benefits, Pregnancy Prevention, Two Parent Family Formation/Maint., and Administration and Systems.