61. Mickey S Welfare - Welfare Reform - Poverty Resources and welfare Dependency General Assistance Programs The StateBased Part of the Safety Net State welfare reform Efforts welfare reform An analysis of the http://mickeys-place-in-the-sun.com/welfare.html

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62. Salt Of The Earth: Welfare Reform Statistics The welfare Information Network This page provides information on welfare reform including policy analysis and technical assistance. http://salt.claretianpubs.org/stats/welref/main.html

Welcome to Claretian Publications! Stat house Life after welfare reform Brief history On August 22, 1996, President Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, a welfare reform law that established the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program (TANF replaced the government's Aid to Families with Dependent Children [AFDC] program). Under this legislation, states are now responsible for implementing their own welfare programs to assist welfare recipients. However, the federal government has provisions for states related to moving families into work and self-sufficiency. Some of the provisions: Statistics and commentary U.S. Secretary Alexis Herman, speaking at the National Press Club, February 17, 1998 Between August 1996 and February 1988 U.S. Secretary Alexis Herman, speaking at the National Press Club, February 17, 1998

63. State Net - News And Analysis - The Welfare Project - State State Net Home Page About State Net Services News and analysis State Net Subscriber Services Capitol Journal welfare reform in California By John Borland http://www.statenet.com/news/welfare/ca/

64. State Net - News And Analysis - The Welfare Project - State State Net Home Page About State Net Services News and analysis State Net Subscriber Services Capitol Journal welfare reform in Florida By John Borland http://www.statenet.com/news/welfare/fl/

65. FRBSF: Economic Letter - Labor Market Effects Of Welfare Reform 8/29/97) To quantify the effect of welfare reform on the national workforce, the analysis moves to calculations of the labor force participation rate, or the percentage http://www.frbsf.org/econrsrch/wklyltr/el97-24.html

Home What's New Careers Glossary ... Economic Letter FRBSF Economic Letter 97-24; August 29, 1997 Labor Market Effects of Welfare Reform The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 Effects of welfare reform on labor force entry of targeted populations Welfare reform and the U.S. labor force participation rate Conclusion On August 22, 1996, President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act into law and ended the sixty-two year old federal entitlement system for the needy commonly referred to as welfare. Since then, welfare caseloads in the U.S. have fallen by 12 percent (see Figure 1 ). Over the same period, approximately 2.3 million individuals have joined the labor force, boosting the labor force participation rate (the percentage of working age men and women employed or seeking work) by 0.4 percentage point to 67.1 percent in July 1997. The coincidence of these two events with the passage of welfare reform naturally raises the question: "Are they related?" This Economic Letter examines these topics. The analysis assesses the extent to which welfare reform has induced targeted populations to enter the labor force and whether or not reform-related labor market entry has affected the U.S. aggregate labor force participation rate. The results suggest that welfare reform appears to have induced a portion of the targeted population to enter the labor market rather than move onto the welfare rolls, but that relative to the number of individuals entering the U.S. labor market during the past year, potential welfare recipients make up only a small fraction.

66. Compelling Case To Reauthorize Welfare Reform analysis of information from two national surveys showed that the longer low of poverty than mothers in states that had less rigorous welfare reform programs. http://www.brook.edu/views/articles/haskins/20040119.htm

Brookings Economic Studies Welfare Reform and Beyond News Releases ... Contact Us Compelling Case to Reauthorize Welfare Reform Houston Chronicle January 19, 2004 Bill Archer Former Chairman Committee on Ways and Means Ron Haskins Senior Fellow Economic Studies Rep. E. Clay Shaw Jr. Chairman Ways and Means subcommittee mailhide2('feedback', 'brookings', 'edu', 'Compelling Case to Reauthorize Welfare Reform') Ron Haskins Republicans scored a historic victory in the congressional elections of 1994, reoccupying the Senate after an eight-year hiatus and capturing the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years. It is now clear that the most important change in public policy resulting from the Republican victory was the massive overhaul of the nation's welfare programs. It is now clear that the most important change in public policy resulting from the Republican victory was the massive overhaul of the nation's welfare programs. The central welfare reform programs created by Republicans in 1996 have been due for reauthorization for the past two years, but the U.S. Senate has yet to enact legislation. When Congress gets down to business later this month, reauthorizing welfare reform should be at the top of its agenda. The results of the reforms have been too important for Congress to allow the programs to languish in the never-never land of continuing resolutions. Consider what has happened in the world of welfare since 1996. The central feature of the 1996 legislation was repeal of the nation's cash assistance program for the poor. This program embodied the concept of entitlement, under which able-bodied young adults with children had a legal right to cash and other benefits if they didn't work and, in most cases, didn't marry. Republicans thought rewarding nonwork and nonmarital births with entitlement welfare benefits was inconsistent with traditional American values and provided strong incentives against work and marriage. So they substituted work for entitlement. Specifically, they imposed a work requirement on individual recipients and required states to reduce or terminate the welfare benefit of any recipient who did not meet the work requirement. The length of stay on cash welfare was limited to five years, thereby sending a clear signal that welfare was temporary.

67. IRP Research On Welfare Reform academic entity such as IRP might contribute broader analysis and historical summarizing current knowledge in critical areas of the welfare reform debate; to http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/welreform/home.htm

National Studies Wisconsin Studies (W-2) Research Opportunities Overview No one would credibly argue that information, by itself, will resolve the most intractable of these disagreements. But information, when used properly, can narrow the scope and range of prevailing confusion and identify remaining points of contention more sharply. In some instances, it can temper the most blatant expressions of unsubstantiated opinion. If information is to make a difference, it must be seen as objective and credible. IRP has promoted discussion of the evaluation tools and strategies best suited to understanding the transformation of welfare, and affiliated researchers have several projects investigating the effects of welfare reform. Welfare Reform in Wisconsin Since major welfare reform began in Wisconsin in the mid-1990s, IRP researchers have been studying the experiences of participating families. They are intensively studying the Wisconsin Works (W-2) program, investigating what happens to those families that have left welfare as well as those that remain. Reports covering some of those studies are listed below under the heading Wisconsin Studies National Studies Informing the Welfare Debate: Perspectives on the Transformation of Social Policy The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) began this project in 1995 in the hope that an academic entity such as IRP might contribute broader analysis and historical perspective to a welfare debate sometimes characterized by opinion and partisan positioning. The goals of the project were to produce objective, credible, and readable documents summarizing current knowledge in critical areas of the welfare reform debate; to disseminate these documents widely among policymakers engaged in welfare reform efforts at the federal, state, and local levels; and, as feasible, to conduct workshops and conferences.

68. The Effect Of Welfare Reform On The Insurance Status And Health Of Low-Income Fa due to welfare reform had a different effect on insurance status than changes due to other factors. The authors conduct a similar analysis for children of http://www.nber.org/aginghealth/fall03/w10033.html

Jump to the Navigation Bar The Effect of Welfare Reform on the Insurance Status and Health of Low-Income Families The Effect of Welfare Reform on the Insurance Status and Health of Low-Income Families The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 enacted sweeping changes in the welfare program, including work requirements and lifetime limits on participation. As a result of PRWORA and earlier state reform efforts, as well as other factors such as a concurrent economic boom, the number of welfare recipients fell by 62 percent between 1993 and 2001, from 14.1 million to 5.4 million. One potential unintended consequence of welfare reform may have been to increase the number of low-income families without health insurance. Under the old system, families on welfare were automatically enrolled in Medicaid, a government health insurance program for poor women and children. After welfare reform, women transitioning from welfare to work may have taken jobs that did not offer private health insurance benefits. While many of these families remained eligible for Medicaid, at least on a transitional basis, they would now have to go through a separate, unfamiliar application process to enroll. In fact, there were striking changes in the health insurance status of low-educated single mothers during the 1990s, as illustrated in Figure 1 - many women moved off of public health insurance programs, some gaining private health insurance benefits and others becoming uninsured. In "

69. How Existing Welfare Reform Research Distorts Welfare Reality | WARP: Welfare Ad certainly answers questions about public assistance and lowwage work, but it omits the analysis of a Ending welfare reform as We Know It Briefing Materials. http://www.arc.org/welfare/welfareresearch.html

Ending Welfare Reform as We Know It How Existing Welfare Reform Research Distorts Welfare Reality Prepared by the Applied Research Center January 2001 Download Printer-Friendly Version (12 kb PDF file requires free Ending Welfare Reform as We Know It Briefing Materials Welfare researchers consistently fail to address the question of quality of life for welfare leavers, spending vast sums to answer irrelevant questions. 1. Are families better off with TANF? Tracking of TANF Clients: First Report of Longitudinal Study from the Center for Applied Research of Millsaps College in Jackson, MS under contract with the Mississippi Department of Human Services is an example of a study that fails to acknowledge the impoverished condition of families leaving welfare. The study’s own survey found that almost two-thirds of former welfare recipients were currently unemployed, but in its analysis of findings the report only states, "Many clients work full- or part-time after leaving TANF; however, relatively fewer clients in rural areas find full-time employment than clients in urban areas." Another study that examined economic wellbeing

70. Links To The World - Welfare welfare Policy Center welfare reform information and analysis from the Hudson Institute, the think tank that helped design Wisconsin s innovative welfare http://www.leg.state.mn.us/lrl/links/welfare.asp

Links to the World Welfare The sites listed on this page are not created, maintained, or endorsed by the Minnesota Legislature. Minnesota Information Information on Minnesota's family assistance programs and the Minnesota Family Investment Program from the Minnesota House of Representatives Research Department. Minnesota Department of Human Services This page contains information about the Department, its major programs, and publications (program manuals, reports, and fact sheets). There is also information about the Minnesota state TANF plan , and background on the Minnesota Family Investment Plan (MFIP) Public Welfare A guide to resources in the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library. Reforming Welfare and Rewarding Work: A Summary of the Final Report on the Minnesota Family Investment Program From the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, the full report on the effects of MFIP on Minnesota families is in two volumes: Effects on Adults and Effects on Children Welfare-to-Work: What Have We Learned? A report from the Joyce Foundation which presents research on the welfare to work transition in seven Midwestern states, including Minnesota Federal Information Administration for Children and Families Data on recipient characteristics , background on TANF , and links to a number of ACF programs.

71. Resources On Minnesota Issues Public Welfare January 2003, p. 28+. welfare reform Less than Meets the Eye. Policy analysis, April 2003, p. 130. welfare Timeline Evolution http://www.leg.state.mn.us/lrl/issues/welfare.asp

Last edited October 2003 Resources on Minnesota Issues Public Welfare This guide is compiled by staff at the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library on a topic of interest to Minnesota legislators. It is designed to provide an introduction to the topic, directing the user to a variety of sources, and is not intended to be exhaustive. In particular, it is focused on items available in the Legislative Reference Library. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 eliminated AFDC and replaced it with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. TANF differs from AFDC in that it gives each state a block grant that is used to provide cash assistance to needy families and in that it sets a time limit of sixty months for receiving cash assistance. Another component of TANF is a work requirement: adults receiving TANF are required to spend a specified amount of time engaged in work or work activities, such as seeking employment or on-the-job training. In order to comply with the federal law, policymakers in each state updated their welfare laws and developed a State TANF Plan Minnesota's welfare program, the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP), was signed into law by the governor on April 30, 1997. (

72. Welfare.html welfare reform. Is welfare reform Helping or Hurting Children? analysis from the Joint Center for Poverty Research. March 2002 Learn http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Swearer_Center/Literacy_Resources/welfare.html

Welfare reform policy, practice, information LR/RI's links and women and literacy pages contain links to resources and statistics related to welfare, welfare reform, legislation and related information; this page reflects concerns around federal and state policy, legislation and practice, and their effects on adult learning in RI and across other states. This page also contains links to information about developments in welfare policy and implementation nationally and internationally, and to related issues, such as childcare, domestic violence and employment. The page is divided into 5 sections: education implementation/implications families Rhode Island ... kids and disabilities, learning disabilities and welfare rights Learners, practitioners and others with experience of, opinions about and recommendations pertinent to welfare legislation and its impact on adult learning and community are invited to contribute to this page. Please send comments, reflections and suggestions to LR/RI by email , phone, fax or post. Contact information can be found at LR/RI's home page newly added/recent resources A Chance to Earn, A Chance to Learn: Linking Employment and English Training for Immigrants and Refugees New to English

73. Welfare Reform - Number 2, April 1998 This analysis also highlights an unanswered question If individuals are employed service agencies and states seeking to meet the mandates of welfare reform. http://srdc.msstate.edu/publications/reform02.htm

Box 9656 410 Bost Extension Building Mississippi State, MS 39762 Phone: (662) 325-3207 FAX: (662) 325-8915 Site Map Welfare Reform - Number 2, April 1998 Information Brief Number 2 April 1998 A Special Series on Welfare Reform in the South The Bottom Line: Welfare Reform, the Cost of Living, and Earnings in the Rural South Julie Zimmerman and Lori Garkovich University of Kentucky The Question of Welfare Reform In 1996, the U.S. moved into a new era for public assistance, one based on a fundamental redefinition of the meaning of the "social safety net." The social safety net is now temporarya 60 month lifetime limitand is built around mandatory work participation. These changes arose from one overriding supposition throughout the debate over welfare reform, that if we could move welfare recipients into jobs, they would no longer need public assistance. Nearly a year before the debate over welfare reform, Congress addressed the question of whether to raise the minimum wage. Advocates argued that inflation had depressed the purchasing power of the minimum wage, placing workers at economic risk. Opponents argued that raising the minimum wage would be an unreasonable economic burden for employers, forcing them to raise the prices on their goods and services or cut back on the number of workers they hire. In either case, opponents said, low income workers would be placed at economic risk. Throughout the minimum wage debate, a prevailing premise was that the majority of minimum wage workers were not the primary earners for their households. The legislation passed, and on September 1, 1997, the minimum wage was raised to $5.15 an hour.

74. Committee To Review Welfare Reform Research She is the author or editor of numerous books and articles, including welfare reform An analysis of the Issues (1995) and Challenge to Leadership Economic http://www.welfareacademy.org/pubs/eval/index.shtml

The Committee to Review Welfare Reform Research Committee Members Publications The coming years will see the publication of many reports evaluating the impact of the new welfare regime. To help the public, other scholars, practitioners, and policymakers understand this research and apply its lessons, the Committee to Review Welfare Reform Research assesses the most significant evaluation studies, identifying those findings that are sufficiently well-grounded to be regarded as credible. Committee Members Douglas J. Besharov is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and a professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Affairs. He was the first director of the U.S. National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. He is the author or editor of several books, including Recognizing Child Abuse: A Guide for the Concerned When Drug Addicts Have Children: Reorienting Child Welfare's Response (1994), and Enhancing Early Childhood Programs: Burdens and Opportunities Robert Boruch is University Trustee Chair Professor of Education and Statistics at the University of Pennsylvania. A fellow of the American Statistical Association, he has received awards for his work on research methods and policy from the American Educational Research Association, the American Evaluation Association, and the Policy Studies Association. He is the author of nearly 150 scholarly papers and author or editor of a dozen books, including

75. Welfare Reform: The Positioning Of Academic Work Work, teaching clinical interventions can emphasize the exploration of innovation analysis, methods, and useful resources for contextualizing welfare reform. http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR3-1/wallat.html

Welfare Reform: The Positioning of Academic Work by Carolyn I. Steele and Cynthia Wallat The Qualitative Report , Volume 3, Number 1, March, 1997 (http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR3-1/wallat.html) Abstract Current welfare reform legislation raises a number of questions about how the field of human services will broaden its analytical and educational functions in a context of uncertainty about what welfare will look like in the years to come. How can information and insights about the distribution of welfare dollars and the process of leaving welfare by a heterogeneous population of clients become the basis of contrastive analysis? We describe information sources which can provide a framework for positioning academic work to use longitudinal quantitative tracking sources to lay out qualitative inquiry suggestions for collecting process data that will emerge over time. We suggest that such data will be valuable to practitioners working with persons composing their own histories in the face of the admonishing welfare construct "get off welfare." Introduction On October 1 st 1996, the federal government took another step in its 60 year attempt to set out the content criteria and the procedure criteria in producing government welfare policy

76. Entrez PubMed CONCLUSIONS This analysis suggests that policies deterring Terms Adult; Health Care reform*; Human; Insurance data; Medicaid/trends*; Social welfare/legislation http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1

77. Meeting The Challenge Of Welfare Reform: Workgroup Process to welfare reform. Next Steps. In the interests of communication and wanting to share the output of this conference in a timely manner, no further analysis of http://www.cyfernet.org/welfare/workproc.html

Meeting the Challenge of Welfare Reform: Workgroup Process What follows is the summary of the thinking of 224 participants of the "Meeting the Challenge of Welfare Reform: Setting a National Research and Extension Outreach Education" conference held April 28-30, 1997 at the National 4-H Center, Chevy Chase, Maryland. Conference participants were divided into 10 work groups and focused on three topics: Family and Community Well-being Food and Nutrition ; and Child and Youth Through the leadership of two facilitators, the groups first identified extensive lists of people who had a stake in welfare reform and the well-being of children, youths, families and communities. From that beginning, they identified indicators of well-being measures of change and impact of change resulting from national and state welfare reform public policy. Agendas for Action After identifying indicators, groups generated lists of activities that comprise possible agendas for action at local, state and national levels. For reporting purposes, each of the three lists have been divided into five categories: Research Education Extension Outreach Capacity Building Public Policy The research actions form the basis for discovery of knowledge generation of original data as well as analysis and synthesis of other data. The other four categories represent the

78. Welfare Reform Impacts In SIPP (EXCERPT), Monthly Labor Review Online, November Joint Center on Poverty Research, 1999); Richard Bavier, welfare reform data from 2001 conference of the Association for Public Policy analysis and Management http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2002/11/art3exc.htm

[Accessibility Information] Related BLS programs Related articles November 2002, Vol. 125, No.11 Welfare reform impacts in SIPP Richard Bavier N early 6 years after enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 ( PRWO or simply "welfare reform") most analysts have found generally positive outcomes. Welfare dependence has declined; by 1999, average monthly welfare caseloads stood at less than half the 1994 pre-reform peak for the predecessor Aid to Families with Dependent Children ( AFDC ). In addition, the economic status of women who head families with children, the group affected most directly by welfare reform, has improved according to annual data from the March Current Population Survey ( CPS After a post-1995 dip, even the poorest families showed economic gains in 1999 and 2000, though these were lost in the recession year of 2001. Analysis of expenditure levels provides a more optimistic picture. Several samples specially created to monitor what happened under the new program, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families ( TANF ), have also reported income gains. The Urban Institute’s National Survey of American Families found that families leaving welfare in 1999 did as well or better economically than 1997 leavers.

79. Welfare To Work - Maryland Cooperative Extension welfare Information Network, A Clearinghouse for Information, Policy analysis and Technical Assistance on welfare reform. Summary http://www.agnr.umd.edu/ces/FCS/w2w.html

Maryland Cooperative Extension FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES - MCE OFFICE Welfare to Work The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 MCE Home FCS Home Search AGNR Home Maryland Specific Resources Maryland State Department of Human Resources Summary of Maryland's State Plan (Federal Human Services Reform) Analysis of Welfare Reform Selected Features of State Welfare Plans (Children's Defense Fund) Maryland General Assembly Homepage State of Maryland information, compiled by the American Public Welfare Association Cooperative Extension Resources Single Parent Families in Poverty, Ohio State Bulletin Welfare-to-Work Transition, Ohio State bulletin CSREES Welfare Reform Web Site What Extension Can Offer to Welfare Reform National Network for Family Resiliency Welfare Reform Page National Network for Child Care's Welfare Reform Page Welfare Reform At A Glance Summary of Reform Bill, Children's Defense Fund Welfare Reform Summary Chart, Association of Administrators of Human Sciences (AAHS) and Board on Human Sciences (BOHS) Welfare Information Network,

80. Ph.D. Program Ph.D.s On The Market MA Program concentration Social Policy Policy analysis Professional and research interests Poverty and inequality, welfare and welfare reform, child and http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ssw/phdprogram/onthemarket/

Ph.D. Home Ph.D. News Ph.D. Calendar Directory ... Adminstrative Extranet Ph.D.s on the Job Market We are pleased to introduce recent and prospective graduates of our Doctoral Program. These individuals, who bring a rich diversity of life experiences to their research and scholarly interests and achievements, are pursuing careers in academia, research, policy analysis, and social administration. Click on a name below to view a profile and CV or William M. Bannon, Jr., MSW Program concentration Professional and research interests: service utilization in child and family mental health services, racial socialization Briana Barocas, M.S. Program concentration: Professional and research interests: Paul Kevin Cavanagh, M.S.W. Program concentration: Professional and research interests: Developmental disabilities, child and family policy, poverty, welfare and welfare reform, administration in social work, program evaluation Kelly Taber Chasse, M.S.W.

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