21. Potential Effects Of Congressional Welfare Reform Legislation On Family Incomes: incomes. Such welfare reform legislation is designed to decrease dependency on govern. Click to visit the Urban Institute s homepage http://www.urban.org/urlprint.cfm?ID=6154

22. Center For Immigration Studies Center Report March 2002. Abstract This paper examines the impact of the 1996 welfare reform legislation on welfare use in immigrant households. http://www.cis.org/articles/2002/borjas.htm

The Impact of Welfare Reform on Immigrant Welfare Use By George J. Borjas Center Report March 2002 Abstract Executive Summary From a historical perspective, the limitations on immigrant welfare use included in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) are but the latest in a long line of restrictions, dating back to Colonial days, designed to minimize the costs imposed by the potential immigration of public charges. The first federal restrictions were enacted in 1882, when Congress banned the entry of any persons unable to take care of himself or herself without becoming a public charge, and expanded in 1903 to allow the deportation of immigrants who became public charges within two years after arrival in the United States for causes existing prior to their landing. Despite the growth of the welfare state and the increasing use of welfare by immigrants, the public charge provisions of immigration law rarely were used in the past few decades. Congress instead chose PRWORA as the vehicle through which to reduce immigrant use of public assistance programs. In general terms, the legislation, as signed by President Clinton, contained two key provisions: Most non-citizens who arrived in the country before August 22, 1996 were to be kicked off of the SSI and food stamp rolls within a year. (This provision of the legislation, however, was never fully enforced).

23. About Welfare Program State welfare reform legislation mandated the implementation of a work first delivery model, based on the expectation that Texans support themselves and their http://www.twc.state.tx.us/welref/welrefabout.html

home site index about us contact information Search Welcome to TWC's Welfare Reform Initiatives Division The Texas Workforce Network was first envisioned in 1995 with the passage of House Bill 1863. This legislation consolidated 28 workforce-related programs from 10 different state agencies and created a new agency, the Texas Workforce Commission. It is the establishment of local control over large block-granted programs for employment assistance and self-sufficiency that stands as the cornerstone of the new workforce system. Coupled with this is the belief that local planning based on the economy and labor market needs of each area will produce results that in the end help Texans achieve and sustain economic prosperity. TWC, the 28 workforce development boards and their service providers, whether community based, faith based or private entities, are all part of the Texas Workforce Network. The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) administers a variety of programs to help adults and youth transition from a life of dependency to one of self-sufficiency. The Commission works closely with communities and businesses to enable families to become self-sufficient. State welfare reform legislation mandated the implementation of a work first delivery model, based on the expectation that Texans support themselves and their families. Both state and federal reform legislation emphasize personal responsibility, time limited cash benefits, and the goal of work instead of welfare. To support these philosophies the TWC and Local Workforce Development Boards have developed a service delivery model with primary emphasis on the goal of employment at the earliest opportunity for applicants and recipients of cash assistance. The Texas Workforce Commission goal for all welfare recipients and applicants is to get a job, find a better job, and then develop a career.

24. House Republicans Unveil Welfare Reform Legislation House Republicans Unveil welfare reform legislation. By Elizabeth Shogren Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON Launching what could become http://www-tech.mit.edu/V115/N2/welfare.02w.html

House Republicans Unveil Welfare Reform Legislation By Elizabeth Shogren Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON Launching what could become the defining debate of the 104th Congress, House Republicans unveiled Thursday welfare reform legislation calling for more extensive reductions in cash assistance and a more circumscribed role for the federal government than plans favored by President Clinton and congressional Democrats. While the broad outlines of the GOP legislation have been apparent for some time, the final measure includes a few new elements that Democrats characterized as particularly harsh, such as a provision that would significantly decrease the number of disabled children eligible for cash assistance. The bill's introduction sets in motion a landmark struggle over the extent to which Congress should scale back the government-administered safety net that increasingly is perceived as contributing to the cycle of joblessness, poverty and despair it was designed to ameliorate. "The welfare state failed because for too many years Congress equated compassion with money," said Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Fla. chairman of a key House panel that could begin voting on the measure as early as next week. The GOP initiative would reduce federal funding of welfare programs by $40 billion over five years, with some $15 billion coming from the consolidation of about 50 programs into three block grants to be administered by the states. In what would represent a dramatic change in the way the government regards its obligation to poor families, the measure would end welfare's protected status as a federal "entitlement" that promises benefits to all who qualify, regardless of the cost to taxpayers.

25. Welfare Reform: Progress, Pitfalls, And Potential The 1996 welfare reform legislation made remarkable headway in helping welfare dependents to move toward selfsufficiency. It dramatically http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/wm421.cfm

site map help contact us The Heritage Foundation ... Welfare Welfare Reform: Progress, Pitfalls, and Potential Policy Archive: view by date Policy Archive: view by issue ... Return Home Welfare Reform: Progress, Pitfalls, and Potential by Robert E. Rector WebMemo #421 printer-friendly format The 1996 welfare reform legislation made remarkable headway in helping welfare dependents to move toward self-sufficiency. It dramatically reduced the caseload of dependents, reduced child poverty, and increased employment among single mothers. Yet, as a result of lax enforcement and efforts to undermine the principles and goals of reform, the full potential of this legislation has not been realized. To ensure that reform is sustained and strengthened, action must be taken to promote three elements that have provided a gateway from poverty and dependency: marriage, work, and teen abstinence. Progress The welfare reform legislation passed in 1996 engendered significant progress in addressing critical problems that three decades of a flawed welfare system had either left unaffected or exacerbated. This legislation had three general goals: To reduce dependence and increase employment;

26. BG1468es: The Good News About Welfare Reform At the time of its enactment, liberal groups passionately denounced the welfare reform legislation, predicting that it would result in substantial increases in http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/BG1468es.cfm

site map help contact us The Heritage Foundation ... Welfare BG1468es: The Good News About Welfare Reform Policy Archive: view by date Policy Archive: view by issue ... Return Home The Good News About Welfare Reform by Robert Rector and Patrick F. Fagan Executive Summary #1468es Full Text Five years ago last month, President Bill Clinton signed legislation overhauling part of the nation's welfare system. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193) replaced the failed social program known as Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) with a new program called Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). The reform legislation had three goals: 1) to reduce welfare dependence and increase employment; 2) to reduce child poverty; and 3) to reduce illegitimacy and strengthen marriage. At the time of its enactment, liberal groups passionately denounced the welfare reform legislation, predicting that it would result in substantial increases in poverty, hunger, and other social ills. Contrary to these alarming forecasts, welfare reform has been effective in meeting each of its goals. Poverty has dropped substantially.

27. July 9, 1996 Action Alert: Welfare Reform The US Senate will soon be taking up welfare reform legislation again and the new version is as bad as the one President Clinton vetoed in January. http://www.now.org/issues/economic/welfref.html

July 9th, 1996 Action Alert on Welfare Reform For Updates, See NOW and Welfare The U.S. Senate will soon be taking up welfare reform legislation again and the new version is as bad as the one President Clinton vetoed in January. The new version in the Senate ( S. 1795 ) eliminates Aid to Families with Children (AFDC) as an entitlement program. AFDC would become a block grant to the states, with proposed cuts in spending of $53 billion over a 7 year period. The legislation places a five year lifetime limitation on cash assistance and requires that everyone have a job within two years after applying for AFDC eligibility. States could choose to make these time limitations even shorter. The Senate Finance committee adopted a bill which raises the required 25 hour work week to 35 hours; creates a limited exemption for parents of children under 11 who can't find child care, and imposes a 'family cap' provision [meaning that families who have more children while on welfare would be denied additional assistance, although states could "opt out" of this provision]. In addition, states can stop payments to unmarried teens if they don't remain at home and in school (even though the home environment may not be a good one) and cash grants will be given to states which reduce out of wedlock births without increasing abortions, thus giving an incentive to make abortions difficult to obtain. Welfare benefits will be denied to parents who don't cooperate in child support collection, compelling mothers to identify the fathers of their children even if it will put them at risk of violence. And poor women (and children under 13) who lose cash aid would lose Medicaid assistance as well.

28. LookSmart - Directory - Welfare Reform Research And Activism Principles Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich analyzes the consequences of welfare reform legislation on poor families in a weak economy in this 2000 essay. http://search.looksmart.com/p/browse/us1/us317916/us65566/us63968/us227590/us101

@import url(/css/us/style.css); @import url(/css/us/searchResult1.css); Home IN the directory this category YOU ARE HERE Home Society Poverty Welfare Welfare Reform Research and Activism - Articles and organizations discuss problems with welfare programs and changes that could be made. Directory Listings About American Prospect Online, The - Working Principles Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich analyzes the consequences of welfare reform legislation on poor families in a weak economy in this 2000 essay. Brookings Institution, The - The Politics of TANF Reauthorization Read the transcript of the January 25, 2001 discussion of the public policy implications of the 1996 welfare reform act and recommendations for the reauthorization bill. Center for Women Policy Studies - Poverty to Self-Sufficiency Read this April 2003 fact sheet about the effects of post-secondary education opportunities in welfare reform legislation. Center for Women Policy Studies - States, Bush on Welfare Reform Organization announces the release of its 2003 report, "From Poverty to Self-Sufficiency: The Role of Postsecondary Education in Welfare Reform." Download full report. Colorado Welfare Reform Network assembled at the Univ. of Colorado shares calendars, news, links, lessons and legislative updates regarding welfare law matters.

29. ACVE - Welfare Reform What S At Stake For Adult And Vocational In the context of the new welfare reform legislation, the author uses a case study to underline the need to continue advocating for education for economic self http://www.cete.org/acve/docgen.asp?tbl=tia&ID=119

30. 1996-01-09 President Veto Of Welfare Reform Bill HR 4 The final welfare reform legislation should provide sufficient child care to enable recipients to leave welfare for work; reward States for placing people in http://www.lectlaw.com/files/leg21.htm

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31. 357: Mississippi's 1997 Welfare Reform Legislation The Joint Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review. Report 357. A Review of Mississippi s 1997 welfare reform legislation. June 10, 1997. http://www.peer.state.ms.us/357.html

THE MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE The Joint Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review Report # 357 A Review of Mississippi's 1997 Welfare Reform Legislation June 10, 1997 Introduction The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, commonly known as the Federal Welfare Reform Act, mandated significant substantive changes in the operation of public assistance programs administered with federal funds throughout the states. From the states' standpoint, the most significant changes were: termination of the permanent entitlement program (Aid to Families with Dependent Children [AFDC]) and initiation of a temporary assistance block grant program for working participants (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families [TANF]); and, mandated strengthening of state laws dealing with collection of child support. The Mississippi Governor's Office, in conjunction with the state Department of Human Services, submitted its first TANF state plan for 1996-1997 to the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services on September 30, 1996. This necessitated legislative action during the 1997 session to conform state law with federal TANF legislation so that the state could receive maximum benefit from the block grant program. The PEER Committee authorized the staff to analyze the state's plan for welfare reform, to assist the chairpersons of the Senate and House committees charged with handling subsequent welfare reform legislation, and to prepare a post-session report on welfare reform.

32. Study Predicts Drastic Effects Of Welfare Reform: Legislation Will Impoverish Ha ecent federal welfare reform legislation and proposed state welfare reforms may cause more harm than good, having dramatic effects on families with children as http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol23/vol23_iss2/25.html

Where to Find It The School of Social Work Web is available on the and Index pages of ColumbiaWeb VOL. 23, NO. 2 September 12, 1997 Study Predicts Drastic Effects of Welfare Reform: Legislation Will Impoverish Half Million in N.Y. City Continuation of Home Relief Will Help Some Garfinkel. Record Photo by Amy Callahan. By Kim Brockway ecent federal welfare reform legislation and proposed state welfare reforms may cause more harm than good, having dramatic effects on families with children as well as on childless adults in New York, according to a study issued recently by the New York City Social Indicators Survey Center at Columbia's School of Social Work. The study was conducted by Jane Waldfogel, assistant professor; Irwin Garfinkel, Mitchel Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems, and researcher Patrick Villeneuve. Assuming that about 40 percent of those leaving welfare will be able to find work and that the state and city will cover child care costs for these families, the report says that five years from now, when federal reforms are in place, the legislation will: impoverish more than 500,000 residents of New York City: 100,000 will move into poverty and more than 400,000 who are already poor will move deeper into poverty;

33. Welfare Reform Potential Effects of Congressional welfare reform legislation on Family Incomes by Sheila Zedlewski, Sandra Clark, Eric Meier, Keith Watson; http://www.childwelfare.com/kids/welreform.htm

Welfare Reform Home Library Children and Youth Services Review Welfare of Children ... Suggest additions We are continually updating the information we provide. If you have any suggestions, please email us. see: Welfare and Families Welfare Reform - Research Children and Welfare Reform from The Future of Children Family Well-Being After Welfare Reform Welfare Reform Academy From Welfare to Work: What the Evidence Shows Robert A. Moffitt Welfare Reform and the Work Support System Welfare Reform Brief no. 17 I sabell Sawhill and Ron Haskins Welfare, Children and Families Red Flags- Research Raises Concerns About the Impact of "Welfare Reform" on Child Maltreatment (CLASP) Ongoing Major Research on Welfare Reform: What Will Be Learned by Peter H. Rossi Where are they now- What States' Studies of Welfare Leavers Tell Us Frequently Asked Questions about Working Welfare Leavers (CLASP) Fragile Families and Welfare Reform: Part I Children and Youth Services Review Fragile Families and Welfare Reform: Part II Moving Hard-to-Employ Recipients into the Workforce (March 2001) Attitudes on Family: Implications for Welfare Reform (March 2001) Welfare Reform's Effect on Child Welfare Caseload (February 2001) Will Welfare Reform Hurt Low-Skilled Workers?

34. 1997-98 State Welfare Reform Legislation And Relevant Committees 199798 State welfare reform legislation and Relevant Committees. LEGISLATION COMMITTEES. LEGISLATION Senate and Assembly welfare http://www.sen.ca.gov/ftp/sen/committee/STANDING/HEALTH/_home/WELFARE/legis.htm

1997-98 State Welfare Reform Legislation and Relevant Committees LEGISLATION COMMITTEES LEGISLATION Senate and Assembly welfare reform-related bills introduced during the 1997-98 legislative session are listed below. For more information about each bill, go the the legislative search engine , enter the bill number of the bill in which you are interested, and you will see the text of the bill, amendments, committee analyses, and how Members voted: SENATE BILLS SB 43 - Solis: Income taxes: credit: earned income (EITC) SB 83 (McPherson) Low income tax credits SB 118 (Haynes) AFDC truancy SB 130 (Thompson) Budget bill SB 152 (Johnston) UI alternate base period SB 158, (Rainey), Child Care/Welfare Reform SB 163 (Solis) TANF, relative caretakers SB 164 (Solis) SDI family care leave SB 166 (Solis) TANF, community college programs SB 167 (Solis), community colleges: child care SB 168 (Solis), community colleges SB 169 (Solis), TANF: work activities SB 173 (Watson), GAIN: training programs SB 202 (Solis) Comprehensive UI reform SB 233 - Solis: Unemployment compensation benefitsgood cause.

35. NationalPartnership.org welfare reform legislation. In 1996, Congress passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), leading http://www.nationalpartnership.org/Content.cfm?L1=7&L2=6.0&L3=1

36. WELFARE REFORM IMPACTS ON THE PUBLIC HOUSING PROGRAM: A PRELIMINARY FORECAST to work. Federal welfare reform legislation allows for a fiveyear assistance period to mandated households. However, states have http://www.huduser.org/publications/pubasst/welfare/intro.html

What's New Publications Periodicals Data Sets ... FAQ Welfare Reform Impacts on the Public Housing Program: a Preliminary Forecast Title I, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, effectively ended the Aid To Families With Dependent Children program (AFDC) a long-standing entitlement to unconditional, long-term welfare assistance based only on the income eligibility of households with minor children. In its stead, households are now eligible for relatively short-term income assistance conditional on participation in work activities. In fact, even before TANF, some states obtained waivers to AFDC requirements and made the receipt of benefits conditional upon work participation; many of them have chosen to continue their waiver programs instead of shifting entirely to Federal rules under TANF. The effects of state and Federal welfare reform actions can have reverberating impacts on all programs that traditionally have taken welfare income into account. This includes all HUD multifamily programs that require beneficiaries to contribute a portion of their incomes for rent. In particular, it includes HUD's Public Housing program for which the near-term impacts of welfare reform could be significant for program beneficiaries, administering Public Housing Authorities (HAs), and the Federal government. It is recognized that welfare reform can be expected to have a significant impact not only on the Public Housing Program but on other HUD housing programs as well. The Public Housing Program seemed a reasonable starting point for assessing welfare reform because of the potential impact on the Federal budget and because public housing is not a portable subsidy, meaning that most residents face limited options since they are likely to loose housing assistance if they move to take advantage of job opportunities because they are required to seek work. The assessment methodology utilized here may have the potential to be modified and extended to other HUD programs.

37. The Claremont Institute: A Tale Of Two States When Congress passed welfare reform legislation that President Clinton finally signed in 1996, it abolished the federal welfare entitlement to cash benefits http://www.claremont.org/writings/991217hinderaker_johnson.html

Writings is the home for general works by friends of the Claremont Institute that don't fall into any other site category, such as our projects or Precepts newsletter. Scott Johnson is a Minneapolis attorney and an adjunct fellow of the Claremont Institute, and co-author of the Powerline Web Log John Hinderaker is an attorney and a fellow of the Claremont Institute. He comments on current events for the weblog "Powerline" Also by Scott W. Johnson and John H. Hinderaker Walter Mondale Loses It Posted on December 21, 2003 The Party's Not Over Posted on December 4, 2003 Civil Rights Versus Racial Preferences Posted on April 3, 2003 Looking for something? Enter any text below to search our content. Or, find an article by author topic or date directly. Enter your email address below to join Precepts, our free weekly policy watch newsletter. A Tale of Two States Wisconsin and Minnesota Show the Best and Worst of Welfare Reform By Scott W. Johnson and John H. Hinderaker Posted December 17, 1999 A version of this article appeared in the January/February edition of The American Enterprise When Congress passed welfare reform legislation that President Clinton finally signed in 1996, it abolished the federal welfare entitlement to cash benefits for dependent families. Recognizing the incredibly destructive consequences that this entitlement program had wrought, Congress directed each of the 50 states to design its own program to replace welfare with workfare.

38. NCC Hosts Release Of New Book On Welfare "Reform" Legislation and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, popularly known as welfare reform. It explores the true costs of the new welfare reform legislation and how ending http://www.ncccusa.org/news/01news95.html

news@ncccusa.org Most Recent Stories NCC Home NCC HOSTS RELEASE OF NEW BOOK CHRONICLING 66 YEARS OF WELFARE 'REFORM' LEGISLATION Photo: At the Nov. 7 release of the book Washington's New Poor Law , NCC General Secretary Bob Edgar speaks about the Council's Poverty Mobilization. Professors Mimi Abramovitz of the Hunter School of Social Work and Herbert J. Gans of the Columbia University Sociology Department also spoke. November 7, 2001, NEW YORK CITY The National Council of Churches hosted a seminar and reception here today honoring authors Sheila D. Collins and Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg on the release of their new book, Washington's New Poor Law Collins and Goldberg are co-founders of an NCC partner, the National Jobs for All Coalition. The book tracks repeated failures to "reform" welfare from 1935 to 2001, including the current crisis over reauthorization of TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) in the face of an economic downturn. "TANF didn't work well, even by government standards, without a recession," Goldberg said.

39. "Evaluating The Impact Of Federal Welfare Reform Legislation In Indian Country: Title, Evaluating the Impact of Federal welfare reform legislation in Indian Country A Case Study of the Rosebud Sioux Reservation. http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/hpaied/pubs/pub_118.htm

PubID Author(s) Hargreaves, Margaret Barnwell and Hedy Nai-Lin Chang. Title "Evaluating the Impact of Federal Welfare Reform Legislation in Indian Country: A Case Study of the Rosebud Sioux Reservation. A Report to The Council of Energy Resource Tribes." Format Adobe PDF File Size Date April 1989 Description N/A Click to download the Adobe Acrobat software to view PDF documents. Please visit the Adobe website if you need further assistance. HOME OVERVIEW LINKS

40. "Evaluating The Impact Of Federal Welfare Reform Legislation In Indian Country." PubID, 971. Author(s), Lam, James. Title, Evaluating the Impact of Federal welfare reform legislation in Indian Country. . Format, Adobe PDF. File Size, 127K. http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/hpaied/pubs/pub_082.htm

PubID Author(s) Lam, James Title "Evaluating the Impact of Federal Welfare Reform Legislation in Indian Country." Format Adobe PDF File Size Date May 1997 Description N/A Click to download the Adobe Acrobat software to view PDF documents. Please visit the Adobe website if you need further assistance. HOME OVERVIEW LINKS

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