81. State Again Chops New Welfare Reform Programs - Local News - GreatFallsTribune.c said another $8.8 million must be cut from the budget of Phase II of welfare reform.The programs in Phase II include worker training, housing assistance and http://www.greatfallstribune.com/news/stories/20020118/localnews/1488928.html

Home News Communities Explore ... Jobs Extra Sections Local News News from Great Falls and Northcentral Montana Obituaries Today's obituaries from the Tribune Local Sports Area high school and college sports Opinion Editorials from the Tribune Weather Forecast and latest conditions Technology Your guide to the 'Net, gadgets, games and more. Nation/World Breaking headlines from The Associated Press Friday, January 18, 2002 State again chops new welfare reform programs By MIKE DENNISON Tribune Capitol Bureau State welfare officials Thursday announced another round of cuts in new "welfare reform" programs, saying the money must be spent instead on direct payments to Montanans on welfare. Hank Hudson, head of the state Human and Community Services Division, said another $8.8 million must be cut from the budget of "Phase II" of welfare reform. The programs in Phase II include worker training, housing assistance and other items to help people get off welfare and find and keep jobs. The 2001 Legislature budgeted about $26 million for these programs over the next two years. But lawmakers also said if the number of people receiving direct welfare payments increases, money should be shifted from the self-help programs to cover the direct-payment cost. With the economy slowing, welfare caseloads in Montana have increased and that means cuts in the newer programs.

82. TAP: Vol 8, Iss. 32. The Hidden Paradox Of Welfare Reform. Christopher Jencks. Their alternative to Clinton s original welfare reform bill had tougherwork requirements, but it also cost more. Federal housing Subsidies. http://www.prospect.org/print/V8/32/jencks-c.html

This is an archived page of The American Prospect. For other pages: Print Issue Online Articles Tapped Home ... Moving Ideas Network The Hidden Paradox of Welfare Reform By Christopher Jencks Issue Date: 0.0.00 Print Friendly Email Article W hen Bill Clinton first sought the presidency, he promised to "end welfare as we know it." Instead of letting single mothers stay home until their children were fully grown, he argued that mothers who sought government help should go to work within two years. Polls showed overwhelming popular support for this change, but there were two big problems. First, some welfare recipients are only marginally employable. Second, welfare mothers who find jobs mostly earn between $5 and $7 an hour. Since that is not enough to support a family, they still need help paying their bills if they are to keep their families together. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, which the Republican Congress passed and Clinton signed last summer, assumes that raising the minimum wage to $5.15 and expanding the EITC will suffice to ensure that all working mothers can pay their bills. The law deals with mothers whom nobody wants to hire by allowing states to exempt up to 20 percent of their caseload from its five-year lifetime limit on welfare receipt. These solutions reflect the usual triumph of hope over experience. Raising the cost of altruism almost always reduces its frequency. Once legislators digest the fact that cutting TANF outlays by a dollar will add a full dollar to the funds available for more popular programs like schools, convention centers, or tax cuts, single mothers' share of their state's budget will almost inevitably shrink. Since the federal block grant will not rise with inflation, its real value will also shrink. To get out of the resulting fiscal bind, states will have to tighten their time limits, let benefits lag behind inflation, or both. More than a third of the states have already adopted time limits more restrictive than the ones Congress mandated. As the fiscal crunch intensifies, more and more states will presumably follow this path.

83. The Brookings Institution Is housing Mobility the Key to welfare reform? by James E. Rosenbaum and StefanieDeLuca September 2000, View Full Report (PDF—155.2K), About PDF files. http://www.brook.edu/es/urban/rosenbaumexsum.htm

Brookings Economic Studies Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy News Releases ... Contact Us Is Housing Mobility the Key to Welfare Reform? by James E. Rosenbaum and Stefanie DeLuca September 2000 View Full Report About PDF files Related Research Housing Research Abstract Since 1976, the Gautreaux program in Chicago has helped thousands of inner-city low-income black families move to new neighborhoods within the city itself and in the outlying suburbs. This survey examines the extent to which neighborhood characteristics affect household reliance on welfare (AFDC) receipt. Rosenbaum and De Luca find that families who moved into communities with more-educated neighbors were much more likely to leave public assistance after the move than their counterparts in areas with less-educated residents. SEARCH BROOKINGS Advanced Search MOST RECENT RELATED CONTENT Hindering Homeownership Keep HOPE (VI) Alive Welfare Reform and Immigrants Policy Briefs Achieving Compromise on Welfare Reform Reauthorization The Structure of the TANF Block Grant The Role of Education and Training in Welfare Reform Growth Management and Affordable Housing ... The New World of Welfare Events Block Grants: Past, Present, and Prospects

84. Welfare Reform: An Analysis Of The Issues Critics of the welfare system claim that the system does not provide sufficient state flexibility, does not encourage work, contributes to the breakdown of the family, and has done little to 1 A http://www.urban.org/welfare/overview.htm

Welfare Reform: An Analysis of the Issues Author(s): Isabel V. Sawhill Other Availability: Order Online Printer-Friendly Version Published: May 01, 1995 Citation URL: http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=306620 The nonpartisan Urban Institute publishes studies, reports, and books on timely topics worthy of public consideration. The views expressed are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the Urban Institute, its trustees, or its funders. INTRODUCTION No one likes the current welfare system. Governors complain that federal law is overly prescriptive and are willing to take less federal money in return for more flexibility. The public believes that welfare is anti-work and anti-family although polls show that the public wants welfare reformed in ways that do not penalize children. Welfare recipients find dealing with the system degrading and demoralizing; most would prefer to work . Experts note that welfare has done little to stem the growth of poverty among children. In all but two states, welfare benefits (including food stamps) are insufficient to move a family above the poverty line In short, the current indictment against the welfare system has four particulars:

85. Welfare, Children, & Families city ethnography. housing Assistance, housing Costs, and WelfareReform July 2002 — Policy Brief 024 PDF Format A Closer http://www.jhu.edu/~welfare/

Robert A. Moffitt Katie Winder April 2004 PDF Format Robert A. Moffitt et al. Working Paper 03-03 November 2003 PDF Format Robert A. Moffitt Working Paper 03-02 PDF Format Science 299 (7 March 2003): 1548-1552. Not By Jobs Alone The Correlates and Consequences of Welfare Exit and Entry Robert Moffitt and Katie Winder Working Paper 03-01 PDF Format View the papers from the August 17, 2002 American Sociological Association session on the three-city ethnography. Housing Assistance, Housing Costs, and Welfare Reform PDF Format A Closer Look at Changes in Children's Living Arrangements in Low-Income Families PDF Format The Characteristics of Families Remaining on Welfare PDF Format The Characteristics of Families Remaining on Welfare Working Paper 02-02 PDF Format Welfare Reform: What About the Children?

86. NewsHour:Welfare The Clinton administration approved last weekend a controversial Wisconsin welfarereform plan that on what happens to tenants when public housing projects fail http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/welfare/welfare.html

May 14, 2002 Welfare Reform Revisited After a report from Kwame Holman on the renewed debate over welfare reform, Jim Lehrer talks with Rep. Clay Shaw (R-Fla.), who was instrumental in passage of the welfare reform bill five years ago; and Rep. Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.), leader of his party's alternative welfare plan. May 14, 2002 Making Marriage Work Betty Ann Bowsers looks at a welfare program in Oklahoma that encourages marriage. May 3, 2002 Revisiting Welfare As the 1997 Welfare Reform Law comes up for reauthorization, Betty Ann Bowser looks at the impact it has had in the state of Connecticut. April 24, 2002 Moving On Spencer Michels reports from central California on paying welfare recipients to relocate to where jobs are more plentiful. August 23, 2001 Welfare Reform Ray Suarez discusses Welfare reform with four guests who have closely studied the 1996 law: Ron Haskins, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; Eloise Anderson, director of the Program for the American Family at the Claremont Institute; Peter Edelman, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center; and Gwendolyn Mink, a professor at Smith College and author of Welfare's End June 20, 2001

87. Children's Advocate Newsmagazine. Welfare, Family Income, Poverty Article Index. Working from the inside out, SeptemberOctober 2000 welfare reform Coalition wins Housingcrisis harmful to kids, September-October 1999 Advocates push for http://www.4children.org/welfare.htm

Home About Us Children's Advocate Master Calendar ... Building Welfare, Family Income, Poverty Articles are often listed under more than one category. Articles online have a link to take you directly to the story. Please contact us if you would like a copy of any articles not online or before 1997. Advocacy and Community Building see additional articles under Advocacy and Community Building Grassroots Snapshot: L.A. County adopts community coalition’s spending plan pdf version , March-April 2004. California Partnership wins on welfare service in L.A. , Marzo-Abril 2004. Victoria comunitaria de California Partnership sobre el presupuesto de L.A. "Taking from kids who have so little" pdf version , January-February 2004 Statewide coalition fights cuts to programs for low-income families. Budget issues: Social services pdf version , Spring 2003 Summarizes the governor's proposal on CalWORKs and child welfare, its effects on families, and advocates' responses. Asuntos del presupuesto: Servicios sociales , Primavera 2003 Grassroots Snapshot Families on welfare win checking accounts pdf version , September-October 2002 LA parents on welfare participate in a successful campaign to get welfare checks deposited directly into special bank accounts.

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