This article highlights the gross misappropriation of federal antipoverty funding in the United States through the welfare program Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, known as TANF. A large proportion of the TANF block grants given to states are used for other state programs instead of alleviating poverty. This misuse of antipoverty funding would not occur under a basic income, since there would be no bureaucratic middleman to withhold antipoverty funds from the poor.
Scott Santens, “TANF is Terrible”, 1 April 2015.
