Working After Welfare
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Working After Welfare
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
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Doing Without
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Author : Jane Henrici
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2006-10-26
Doing Without written by Jane Henrici and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-26 with Political Science categories.
The welfare reform legislation enacted in 1996 was applauded by many for the successes it had in dramatically reducing the number of people receiving public assistance, most of whom were women with children. Today, however, more than a decade later, these successes seem far less spectacular. Although the total number of welfare recipients has dropped by more than fifty percent nationwide, evidence shows that poverty has actually deepened. Many hardworking women are no better off for having returned to the workplace. In Doing Without, Jane Henrici brings together nine contributions to tell the story of welfare reform from inside the lives of the women who live with it. Cases from Chicago and Boston are combined with a focus on San Antonio from one of the largest multi-city investigations on welfare reform ever undertaken. The contributors argue that the employment opportunities available to poorer women, particularly single mothers and ethnic minorities, are insufficient to lift their families out of poverty. Typically marked by variable hours, inadequate wages, and short-term assignments, both employment and training programs fail to provide stability or the kinds of benefitsÑsuch as health insurance, sick days, and childcare optionsÑthat are necessary to sustain both work and family life. The chapters also examine the challenges that the women who seek assistance, and those who work in public and private agencies to provide it, together must face as they navigate ever-changing requirements and regulations, decipher alterations in Medicaid, and apply for training and education. Contributors urge that the nation should repair the social safety net for women in transition and offer genuine access to jobs with wages that actually meet the cost of living.
Work After Welfare
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Author : Maria Cancian
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Work After Welfare written by Maria Cancian and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Ex-welfare recipients categories.
Five Years After
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Author : Daniel Friedlander
language : en
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Release Date : 1995-02-03
Five Years After written by Daniel Friedlander and has been published by Russell Sage Foundation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-02-03 with Social Science categories.
Friedlander and Burtless teach us why welfare reform will not be easy. Their sobering assessment of job training programs willenlighten a debate too often dominated by wishful thinking and political rhetoric. Look for their findings to be cited for many years to come. —Douglas Besharov, American Enterprise Institute A methodologically astute study that sheds considerable light on the potential for and limits to raising the employment and earnings of welfare recipients and provides benchmarks against which the impacts of later programs can be compared. —Journal of Economic Literature With welfare reforms tested in almost every state and plans for a comprehensive federal overall on the horizon, it is increasingly important for Americans to understand how policy changes are likely to affect the lives of welfare recipients. Five Years After tells the story of what happened to the welfare recipients who participated in the influential welfare-to-work experiments conducted by several states in the mid-1980s.The authors review the distinctive goals and procedures of evaluations performed in Arkansas, Baltimore, San Diego, and Virginia, and then examine five years of follow-up data to determine whether the initial positive impact on employment, earnings, and welfare costs held up over time. The results were surprisingly consistent. Low-cost programs that saved money by getting individuals into jobs quickly did little to reduce poverty in the long run. Only higher-cost educational programs enabled welfare recipients to hold down jobs successfully and stay off welfare. Five Years After ends speculation about the viability of the first generation of employment programs for welfare recipients, delineates the hard choices that must be made among competing approaches, and provides a well-documented foundation for building more comprehensive programs for the next generation. A sobering tale for welfare reformers of all political persuasions, this book poses a serious challenge to anyone who promises to end welfare dependency by cutting welfare budgets.
Assessing Work First
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Author : Work, Poverty, and Welfare Evaluation Project (New Jersey Poverty Research Institute)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Assessing Work First written by Work, Poverty, and Welfare Evaluation Project (New Jersey Poverty Research Institute) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Aid to families with dependent children programs categories.
The Transition From Welfare To Work
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Author : Sharon Telleen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-11
The Transition From Welfare To Work written by Sharon Telleen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-11 with Political Science categories.
How well do you understand the sweeping welfare reforms of the mid-1990s? The Transition from Welfare to Work: Processes, Challenges, and Outcomes provides a comprehensive examination of the welfare-to-work initiatives that were undertaken just prior to and following the major reform of United States welfare legislation in 1996. It will familiarize you with the intent of those reforms and show you how those interventions have been implemented. It also explores the barriers to employment that must be overcome by welfare-to-work clients, and the impact of these changes on clients, employers, and society. From the editors: “Although the numbers enrolled in welfare programs dropped dramatically in the last few years of the economic expansion of the 1990s, until recently we have known very little about the conditions of families affected by welfare-to-work policies. How did welfare-to-work interventions change the lives of participants and their families? What factors helped or hindered the transition to paid work? Are welfare-to-work policies likely to have actually improved the earnings or income of former AFDC recipients? This book studies all these questions.” The Transition from Welfare to Work: Processes, Challenges, and Outcomes presents qualitative, quantitative, and econometric analyses as well as panel studies, longitudinal, and quasi-experimental designs. Beginning with a brief description of the goals and structure of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, this book examines all of the phases of the welfare-to-work process. Use it to increase your understanding of: the implementation of interventions designed to place TANF recipients in jobs the factors that impact the readiness of low-income women to enter the job market the outcomes of current and earlier welfare-to-work interventions the steps we need to take to know how these citizens are faring in the welfare-to-work environment and more!
Making Work Pay
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Author : Robert Kuttner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Making Work Pay written by Robert Kuttner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Political Science categories.
Leading experts and journalists offer an incisive, wide-ranging critique of welfare reform. In the four years since Congress acted to "end welfare as we know it," millions of people have been forced out of government assistance programs into low-wage, dead-end jobs with few, if any, benefits. Making Work Pay brings together the foremost thinkers in the fields of social policy and public affairs to examine the effects of the new national prosperity on the working poorto ask what happened to the second half of President Bill Clinton's welfare reform, which was supposed to "make work pay." As Robert Reich notes in his introduction, "like other ideas that have had the misfortune of becoming political slogans, 'making work pay' went from obscurity to meaninglessness without any intervening period of coherence." This book, which originated as a special double issue of The American Prospect magazine, brings coherence to the original notion, and updates it for a new century. In Making Work Pay, leading policy analysts and journalists examine the broad fallout of welfare reform: Marcia Meyers shows how welfare offices undermine welfare reform; Naomi Barko reveals how the gender gap in wages hits low-income workers hardest; Harold Meyerson describes the growing movement to organize low-wage workers; and Michael Massing details welfare-to-work programs that actually work. Arriving as Congress considers the reauthorization of welfare reform, and including reports of state programs, Making Work Pay is a timely contribution to a pressing debate.
Working After Welfare
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Author : Kristin S. Seefeldt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Working After Welfare written by Kristin S. Seefeldt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Public welfare categories.
Mothers Work And Children S Lives
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Author : Rucker C. Johnson
language : en
Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
Release Date : 2010
Mothers Work And Children S Lives written by Rucker C. Johnson and has been published by W.E. Upjohn Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Family & Relationships categories.
This book examines the effects of work requirements imposed by welfare reform on low-income women and their families. The authors pay particular attention to the nature of work, whether it is stable or unstable, the number of hours worked in a week, and regularity and flexibility of work schedules. They also show how these factors make it more difficult for low-income women to balance work and family requirements.
Before And After Welfare Reform
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Author : Avis Jones-DeWeever
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Before And After Welfare Reform written by Avis Jones-DeWeever and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Public welfare categories.