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The new world of welfare / Rebecca M. Blank, Ron Haskins, editors.

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The new world of welfare / Rebecca M. Blank, Ron Haskins, editors.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Blank, Rebecca M.
  • Haskins, Ron.
  • Brookings Institution.
Description
xiii, 514 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Publisher Fact Sheet
Subject
  • Public welfare > United States > Congresses
  • Public welfare > United States
  • United States > Social policy > Congresses
  • United States > Economic policy > Congresses
  • United States > Social policy
  • United States > Economic policy
Note
  • Papers presented at a conference held on February 1-2, 2001, and commentators responses constitute this book.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • pt. I. Overview and policy recommendations. 1. Welfare reform: an agenda for reauthorization / Ron Haskins and Rebecca M. Blank -- pt. II. The biggest issues. 2. Implementation of the Personal Responsibility Act of 1996 / Thomas L. Gais [and others] -- 3. Work, wages, and welfare / Rebecca M. Blank and Lucie Schmidt -- 4. Effects of welfare reform on family income and poverty / Ron Haskins -- 5. Family formation / Charles Murray -- 6. The politics of welfare reform / Hugh Heclo -- 7. The politics of conservative welfare reform / Lawrence M. Mead -- pt. III. Specific issues and policies. 8. Improving employment outcomes under TANF / Julie Strawn, Mark Greenberg, and Steve Savner -- 9. State sanctions and time limits / LaDonna Pavetti and Dan Bloom -- 10. Financial work incentives for low-wage workers / Charles Michalopoulos and Gordon Berlin -- 11. Work experience under welfare reform / Jason A. Turner and Thomas Main -- 12. Will TANF work for the most disadvantaged families? / Sheila R. Zedlewski and Pamela Loprest -- 13. Supporting work through Medicaid and food stamps.
  • Robert Greenstein and Jocelyn Guyer -- 14. Welfare reform and immigration / George J. Borjas -- 15. Welfare reform and children's well-being / Greg J. Duncan and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale -- pt. IV. Associated program reforms. 16. Fathers, marriage, and welfare reform / Wade F. Horn and Isabel V. Sawhill -- 17. Child support in the new world of welfare / Irwin Garfinkel -- 18. Child care after welfare reform / Douglas J. Besharov with Nazanin Samari -- 19. Effects of the 1996 welfare reform changes on the SSI program / Lynn A. Karoly, Jacob Alex Klerman, and Jeanette A. Rogowski.
ISBN
  • 0815710100 (alk. paper)
  • 0815710119 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2001003367
OCLC
  • 47136396
  • SCSB-9947096
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library