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Accelerating Individuals into the Workforce Act
(Sec. 2) This bill amends title IV (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of the Social Security Act to require the Administration for Children & Families (ACF) to make grants to states for demonstration projects that provide wage subsidies to enable low-income individuals to enter and retain employment. At least one of these demonstration projects shall fund programs that offer apprenticeships registered under the National Apprenticeship Act.
States may use grant funds to subsidize an individual's wages for up to 12 months. The subsidy may be up to 50% of an individual's wages. Individuals are eligible for subsidized wages if they: (1) are recipients of TANF or similar state assistance or a noncustodial parent of a child receiving such assistance, (2) are unemployed when the subsidy begins, and (3) have an income below 200% of the poverty line.
States must ensure that participants in subsidized job programs do not displace current workers.
The ACF must reserve funding to carry out the bill from amounts in the Contingency Fund for State Welfare Programs.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 2842 as passed House amended on Jun 23, 2017. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Jun 23, 2017Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveJun 23, 2017
House Jun 23, 2017 · the primary vote
Accelerating Individuals into the Workforce Act
Passed
377 Yea 34 Nay 20 not voting
Crossed both parties 34 of 411 voting members broke with their own party: 21 Democrats, 13 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
431 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 2842 and vote against it. 1 signed when it was filed.