Welfare Reform welfare reform Information on the Internet. The following links to notfor-profit organizations, research groups, and government agencies provide users with a variety of positions and opinions on welfare reform legislation. complete text of gov. George Pataki's official welfare reform proposal. Personal Responsibility http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/workforce/welfare/wfnet.html
Extractions: Welfare Reform Information on the Internet The following links to not-for-profit organizations, research groups, and government agencies provide users with a variety of positions and opinions on welfare reform legislation. The information on these sites is solely the responsibility of the groups that sponsor the web sites. Inclusion of these links on our web site does not imply support or endorsement by the New York State Education Department. Please communicate directly with the cited group to express your own views. An extensive site created by the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research. Contains many articles and policy papers, the online journal
NCPA - Welfare - States Leading Welfare Reform welfare reformS THAT WORK. welfare reform is reportedly working in states that have tough work requirements, backed by sanctions and time limits. as a leader in welfare reform since 1987 when Republican gov. Tommy Thompson took office work for a paycheck from private employers, government agencies or sheltered workshops http://www.public-policy.org/~ncpa/pi/welfare/!wel42.html
Extractions: Welfare reform is reportedly working in states that have tough work requirements, backed by sanctions and time limits. Nationwide, caseloads have dropped by more than three million about 27 percent since Congress passed the 1996 Welfare Reform Act. California and New York are also among the 16 states that opted to keep noncitizens on state aid after they were cut from federal aid by the 1996 reforms. A General Accounting Office audit last fall revealed that children of illegal immigrants received more than $1 billion in cash payments and food stamps in fiscal year 1995. Source: Ben Boychuk, "Where Welfare Reforms Work,"
Social Service Organizations And Welfare Reform and welfare reform gov ernments increasingly provide services by purchasing them from private social service agencies, expanding the welfare state through these organizations. welfare reform http://www.mdrc.org/Reports2001/UC-SocialService/UCSocialServicesOrg&WelRefo
Contextual Variations In Welfare Reform If, for example, one of the characteristics of those local welfare agencies that perform well is close cooperation with local job training, economic http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/hsp/isp/tap45.htm
Extractions: Dr. Wolman is a Professor in the College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs and in the Department of Political Science at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He is serving as a visiting policy analyst in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation through the Intergovernmental Personnel Act. DHHS, quite understandably, tends to think of the world in terms of individuals, families and households to whom it delivers services. However, those whose concern is with economic development and labor market policy tend to see the world more in terms of places and variations among places. What might be the implications for DHHS concerns, particularly the ability to move from welfare to work, if it attempted to think systematically about the problem of service delivery to individuals, families and households within the context of places or areas which differ in important respects? Do differences among areas in their characteristics affect the ability of individuals to move from welfare to work? What are these place-related characteristics? If they do affect the ability to move from welfare to work, what are the implications, particularly as we consider substantial changes in the existing welfare system, in terms of policy and legislation, technical assistance, and research and evaluation?
OPM Welfare To Work Home Page We will be happy to assist agencies in developing your an email inquiry to w2w@opm.gov To White House welfare reform Information Page; To National Partnership http://www.opm.gov/wtw/
Extractions: New User About the Agency What's New Quick Index ... Career Opportunities You are here: Home wtw Welfare-to-Work New Regulations on Promotions Under TAPER Appointments Reporting Requirements Sample Vacancy Announcement Welfare to Work Hiring Statistics In his March 8, 1997 memorandum , President Clinton reiterated his commitment to providing employment opportunities to welfare recipients and directed the heads of the federal government's executive departments and agencies to lead by example and move people off the welfare rolls into federal jobs using available hiring authorities. The President asked Vice President Gore to oversee this effort. The Office of Personnel Management Welfare to Work web pages provide guidance regarding hiring authorities available for use in the efforts of Executive Departments and Agencies to provide employment opportunities for welfare recipients.
Government Employment For Welfare Recipients FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND agencies. SUBJECT Government Employment for welfare Recipients. Since I signed the historic welfare reform law, I http://www.opm.gov/wtw/html/welfarem.htm
Extractions: Since I signed the historic welfare reform law, I have urged businesses, nonprofit organizations, and religious groups across the Nation to help make its promise of opportunity real by offering jobs to welfare recipients. We are making great progress, but there is more to do. And today, I take action to ensure that the Federal Government, as the Nation's largest employer, contributes to the greatest extent possible to this national effort. In particular, I direct you to expand the use of the WorkerTrainee Program and other excepted service hiring authorities. The Worker-Trainee Program allows agencies to quickly and easily hire entry-level persons for up to 3 years, with the ability to convert the appointment to career status if the employee has performed satisfactorily. Though recently underutilized, the program allows agencies to bypass complex Federal personnel hiring rules and procedures to bring people into the junior grades of the work force.
U.S. Gov Agencies & Departments | Northwestern University Library U.S. Federal government agencies Directory( LSU and GPO Partnership) Catalogs. FedWorld. gov.Research_Center. Product Home Pages Briefing Room (SSBR) welfare reform. White House for Kids http://www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/resource/federal/agency.html
Welfare Reform Act Of 1996 officer of the State specifying which State agency or agencies will administer and A) have been consulted regarding the plan and design of welfare services in http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/laws/majorlaw/h3734_en.htm
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Extractions: Center for Law and Social Policy Analyzes changes in federal regulations and management that allow states to use TANF and state maintenance of effort (MOE) funds for new initiatives to help low income working families. Changing the 'Culture' of the Welfare Office: Report from Front-Line Workers http://www.nawrs.org/ClevelandPDF/marks.pdf Marks, E.L.; Aug 1999
Welfare Reform Is Not Working For Everyone years since our state enacted our welfare reform program, WorkFirst, gov. Gary Locke has pronounced it "one and the governor and state agencies should be commended for their efforts http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/respop.shtml
Extractions: SPECIAL TO THE POST-INTELLIGENCER In judging the success of welfare reform, it is important to remember that the goal is not to decrease the numbers of families on welfare, but to help families escape poverty so they can meet the basics of life: housing, food, clothing and medical care. Although it has been only two years since our state enacted our welfare reform program, WorkFirst, Gov. Gary Locke has pronounced it "one of the greatest success stories." Aside from the obvious criticism that it is too early to reach such definitive conclusions, there are plenty of warning signals that should make us skeptical and question some of the policies being implemented. According to the state's own telephone survey of families that have left welfare, the average hourly wage is $8.09, but the median wage is $7.22. That is, half the families leaving welfare due to work make less than $7.22 an hour. It should not be surprising, therefore, that 29 percent of those families had to use a food bank, and 33 percent reported that they had to "cut meal size sometimes or often." Thousands have lost their jobs after a few months and are applying for unemployment.
Welfare Reform And Beyond Resources city best practices related to welfare reform and workforce Federal government agencies top Administration for Children HHS) www.acf.dhhs.gov Responsible for http://www.brookings.edu/es/research/projects/wrb/resources/default.htm
93.595 - Welfare Reform Research, Evaluations And National Studies where applicants are limited to those agencies. in Compassion Capitol Fund, child welfare, welfare reform, evaluation of 3598, EMail KKOERPER@ACF.HHS.gov. http://www.cfda.gov/public/viewprog.asp?progid=1292
Census Bureau News 4571037 (TDD) e-mail pio@census.gov Art Jones to assess the impact of the 1996 welfare reform Act Federal agencies, researchers and others are expected to use http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2001/cb01-154.html
Extractions: EMBARGOED UNTIL: 12:01 A.M. EDT, SEPTEMBER 21, 2001 (FRIDAY) Public Information Office CB01-154 301-457-3030/301-457-3670 (fax) 301-457-1037 (TDD) e-mail: pio@census.gov Art Jones 301-457-3185 Census Bureau Releases Data Files from Survey Evaluating Welfare Reform The Commerce Department's Census Bureau today released data files from the Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD), a survey mandated by federal law to assess the impact of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act. Federal agencies, researchers and others are expected to use the data to refine initial assessments. "The data files released today, 1992-1998 Survey of Program Dynamics Longitudinal File Preparing to Measure Welfare Reform using the Longitudinal Survey of Program Dynamics: 2001 [pdf], which provides a first look at the kind of data available from the survey. Because of sample attrition, the SPD data in any one year should not be considered a nationally representative survey of the population and may not be comparable with other data sources. The value of these data are in the picture they give of changes over time. -X-
Internet Resources Guide / Dana Library HandsNet welfare reform Watch http//www.handsnet.org. US Federal government agencies Directory LSU Libraries http//www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html. http://newark.rutgers.edu/~whren/welfare.htm
Welfare Reform Strategies include the following Human service agencies, cultural institutions (eg supports needed by adults and children affected by welfare reform. http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/workforce/welfare/wfroles.html
Extractions: Welfare Reform: Roles that Education Can Play F ederal welfare reform legislation enacted on August 22, 1996 (the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 - P.L. 104-93) challenges every State to restructure welfare assistance for impoverished families in ways that quickly prepare and move adult recipients from welfare into retained employment, and to reduce the overall State welfare caseload over the next five years. W elfare reform affects every part of the education/vocational rehabilitation system. Education/vocational rehabilitation must be part of New York's welfare reform strategies to restructure federal assistance for welfare recipients (over 1 million children and adults in nearly 400,000 families) and the over 240,000 single able-bodied adults receiving State home relief assistance. Issue: Welfare recipients generally do not have the education or work readiness skills needed for long-term employment success. Over half of adult welfare recipients do not have a high school diploma or General Equivalency Diploma (GED); an estimated 40 percent read at less than an eighth grade level. Ford Foundation and Urban Institute research shows that a high school or GED diploma, job training, and prior work experience significantly increases the likelihood of employment; a high school diploma or GED nearly doubles the probability of working and staying employed.
Tribal Issues it provides funding across many agencies, rather than http//www.whitehouse.gov/library/ThisWeek.cgi?type=p date The 1996 welfare reform law, for the first time http://carbon.cudenver.edu/public/cwr/issues/Tribal.html
Human Resources Administration NYC.gov Banner agencies are paid for successfully placing and retaining participants in jobs as an integral component of the Mayor s welfare reform initiative. http://www.nyc.gov/html/hra/html/serv_welfarework.html
Extractions: New York City Welfare Reform Program "NYC WAY" Work Accountability You Beginning in 1995, New York City began a comprehensive plan to fundamentally reshape its welfare policy. NYC WAY is a comprehensive welfare reform model designed to encourage both self-reliance and accountability in the nation's largest welfare system. NYC WAY is designed to engage public assistance applicants and participants in work that assists them in gaining independence. NYC WAY also has data management components that maintain the fundamental integrity of the City's welfare system. NYC Human Resources Administration (HRA) is responsible for program operation and compliance. JOB CENTERS In March 1998, HRA began converting welfare offices in New York City into Job Centers. This bold re-organization of NYC's welfare system emphasizes "work first." All eligible applicants who enter a Job Center are assisted in exploring and pursuing alternatives to welfare. Job Centers provide on-site access to job search and placement services, childcare information, vocational, educational and training services, as well as referrals for Medicaid, Food Stamp and other emergency assistance benefits. Information, services and referrals may be offered as substitutes to cash assistance in order to minimize barriers to employment and negate the need for welfare.
Fact Sheet: President Announces Welfare Reform Agenda these support programs, which now operate under different agencies, different rules to reach a historic, bipartisan agreement to reform the welfare system. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/02/20020226.html
Controversial Issues reform http//www.acf.dhhs.gov/news/welfare welfare reform http//www.nacaa.org/welrecs.htmFrom the National Association of Community Action agencies, this site http://www.twinlakes.k12.in.us/info/library/connection/controW.htm
Business.gov with state and local agencies to identify Credit (http//www.doleta.gov/employer/wtwweb Social Security Administration (SSA) welfare reform Information Contains http://www.business.gov/busadv/maincat.cfm?catid=118
