摘要：The issue of social service program integration is not new, but it once again became prominent in 2002 in the context of welfare reform reauthorization. The Bush administration's proposal to reauthorize the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant¡ªthe primary federal cash assistance program for impoverished children¡ªincluded a provision authorizing federal agencies to approve waivers of existing federal regulations across a broad range of public assistance, workforce development, and other programs.1The administration asserted that the proposed waiver au-thority, the so-called "superwaiver," was designed to build on the federal government's past practice of permitting states to innovate and experiment with better ways of deliv-ering social services. Critics responded that the superwaiver approach was not an effective way to address larger underly-ing structural problems, and ran the risk of undercutting key federal protections and accountability
