Evaluating Comprehensive State Welfare Reform

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Evaluating Comprehensive State Welfare Reform

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Author : Burt S. Barnow
language : en
Publisher: Rockefeller Institute Press
Release Date : 2000-03-01

Evaluating Comprehensive State Welfare Reform written by Burt S. Barnow and has been published by Rockefeller Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03-01 with Political Science categories.

The recent delegation of authority for welfare programs from the federal government to the states has stimulated increasingly complex and comprehensive reforms which seek in part to generate social messages that discourage dependency on public assistance, promote work, and influence family formation decisions. The message-sending emphasis of the new reforms and their comprehensiveness often makes them hard to evaluate through conventional experimental designs using treatment and control groups. This book offers a lucid discussion of issues involved in evaluating the new reforms, and applies those issues to the evaluation of welfare reform in one state, Wisconsin, which offers a leading example of comprehensive welfare reform. The book opens with an overview of the different types of program evaluation and summarizes clearly the basic issues that are involved in their conduct. A discussion of general evaluation strategies for the new welfare reforms, such as the selection and use of counterfactuals, is followed by consideration of both implementation and impact evaluations of the Wisconsin program. The final section considers the evaluation of specific impacts of the Wisconsin program on economic well-being, family structure, child care services, child support, child welfare, and children with disabilities.

Evaluating Comprehensive State Welfare Reforms

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Author : University of Wisconsin--Madison. Institute for Research on Poverty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997

Evaluating Comprehensive State Welfare Reforms written by University of Wisconsin--Madison. Institute for Research on Poverty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Public welfare categories.

Family Caps Abortion And Women Of Color

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Author : Michael Camasso
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2007-08-22

Family Caps Abortion And Women Of Color written by Michael Camasso and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-22 with Social Science categories.

Fifteen years ago, New Jersey became the first of over twenty states to introduce the family cap, a welfare reform policy that reduces or eliminates cash benefits for unmarried women on public assistance who become pregnant. The caps have lowered extra-marital birth rates, as intended but as Michael J. Camasso shows convincingly in this provocative book, they did so in a manner that few of the policys architects are willing to acknowledge publicly, namely by increasing the abortion rate disproportionately among black and Hispanic women. In Family Caps, Abortion, and Women of Color, Camasso (who headed up the evaluation of the nations first cap) presents the caps history from inception through implementation to his investigation and the dramatic attempts to squelch his unpleasant findings. The book is filled with devastatingly clear-cut evidence and hard-nosed data analyses, yet Camasso also pays close attention to the reactions his findings provoked in policymakers, both conservative and liberal, who were unprepared for the effects of their crude social engineering and did not want their success scrutinized too closely. Camasso argues that absent any successful rehabilitation or marriage strategies, abortion provides a viable third way for policymakers to help black and Hispanic women accumulate the social and human capital they need to escape welfare, while simultaneously appealing to liberals passion for reproductive freedom and the neoconservatives sense of social pragmatism. Camasso's conclusions will please no one along the political spectrum, making it all the more essential for them to be studied widely. A classic example of what can happen to research and the researcher when research findings become misaligned with political goals and strategies, Family Caps, Abortion and Women of Color is sure to foment a contentious but vital discussion among all who read it.

Evaluating Welfare Reform

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Author : New York (State). Office of the State Comptroller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997

Evaluating Welfare Reform written by New York (State). Office of the State Comptroller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Public welfare categories.

Managing Welfare Reform In Five States

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Author : Sarah F. Liebschutz
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2000-10-01

Managing Welfare Reform In Five States written by Sarah F. Liebschutz and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-01 with Political Science categories.

Analyzes the responses of five states—Florida, Mississippi, New York, Washington, and Wisconsin—to the challenges of implementing welfare reform.

Nominations Of D Nathan Sheets Ramin Toloui And Maria Cancian

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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014

Nominations Of D Nathan Sheets Ramin Toloui And Maria Cancian written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.

The Public Employment Service In The United States

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Author : OECD
language : en
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Release Date : 2000-03-16

The Public Employment Service In The United States written by OECD and has been published by OECD Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03-16 with categories.

This publication provides an in-depth look at the public employment service and recent policy initiatives in the United States. Areas of concern about recent reforms are outlined and options for making policies more effective are presented.

Browsing Through My Candy Store

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Author : Tom Corbett, Ph.D.
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2014-10-14

Browsing Through My Candy Store written by Tom Corbett, Ph.D. and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-14 with Political Science categories.

Tom Corbett takes us on a wild ride over the past four decades of welfare reform and antipoverty policy making. Drawing on his personal experiences in both academia and government, he exposes the raw realities of doing policy. Tom celebrates his policy life as an adventure, both challenging yet totally rewarding. He tells this story with a deft and light touch, bringing the characters and events to life with wit, wisdom, and sensitivity. It is a journey accessible to all who care about our nation and about our most vulnerable citizens.

The Boat Captain S Conundrum

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Author : Tom Corbett, PhD
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2016-10-14

The Boat Captain S Conundrum written by Tom Corbett, PhD and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-14 with Political Science categories.

In The Boat Captains Conundrum, author Tom Corbett completes an intellectual journey that reflects on his four-plus decades as a scholar and doer of social policy. That journey starts with Ouch, Now I Remember in which he recounts his early days growing up in a closed, working class, ethnic community from which he underwent several transformative experiences that broadened his worldview. In Browsing Through My Candy Store, the author shared his struggles while confronting many of the most vexing poverty and welfare battles of the last half century. This final volume, the Boat Captains Conundrum, completes the trilogy. This work takes the reader on quite a different journey, a path that goes deeper into how to think about the big policy issues and social challenges of our times. In the end, Corbett makes a number of compelling points. Becoming a successful policy wonk is more than conquering the technical skills of doing quantitative analysis. It demands that we do more than merely dissect issues with analytical acumen. Rather, doing good policy work requires creativity, imagination, breadth of interests, a nimble and acquisitive mind, historical depth, and just a little rebellious risk-taking. But if you can conjure up such traits, there is no better way to spend your professional life. Follow the author as he shares his take on how to do policy work well and even make a contribution to the public good. Get inside his head as he struggled to make sense out of the more daunting social challenges of the late twentieth century. Above all, enjoy his wistful and sometimes witty wanderings as seen through a policy wonks eye where he touches upon mind-numbing conundrums with deft insight. It is a great journey to be enjoyed both by students of policy and all those concerned with public life.

Quicker Better Cheaper

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Author : Dall Forsythe
language : en
Publisher: Rockefeller Institute Press
Release Date : 2001-10-18

Quicker Better Cheaper written by Dall Forsythe and has been published by Rockefeller Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-10-18 with Political Science categories.

This volume is a rich compendium of experience and diverse views about systems for introducing greater rationality in American governmental systems. With contributions from skeptics as well as proponents, it adds to the debate over the utility of performance management in American government. Focusing on the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA), the authors also analyze performance budgeting and management in states and local governments. Exploring the performance management movement, the book sets out the point and counterpoint between critics and supporters and provides a common vocabulary for discussion. Steps to improve performance measures are outlined, as well as a discussion of states' progress in managing for results. New survey data reporting on states' performance budgeting is also included. The book reports on GPRA implementation at the Social Security Administration, advocates linking evaluation research with performance management systems, and discusses the limitations of performance incentives in the 1982 federal job training law. Practitioners address the New York City Police Department's innovative "COMPSTAT" system for performance management, and review the recent history of performance budgeting in Florida. Also included are case studies from research scholars on benchmarking for Empowerment Zones, performance funding for higher education in the states, performance management in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program under the 1996 national welfare reform act, and performance issues in Medicaid, food stamps, and children's health insurance.