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Rural dimensions of welfare reform : Bruce A. Weber, Greg J. Duncan, Leslie A. Whitener, editors.
- Title
- Rural dimensions of welfare reform : Bruce A. Weber, Greg J. Duncan, Leslie A. Whitener, editors.
- Publication
- Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2002.
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- Description
- x, 499 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This volume presents the first comprehensive look at how welfare reforms enacted in 1996 are affecting caseloads, employment, earnings, and family well-being in rural areas.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- proceedings.
- comment.
- graph.
- map.
- rapport de réunion.
- carte géographique.
- commentaire.
- graphique.
- informe de reunión.
- comentario.
- gráfico.
- mapa.
- Note
- This book presents revised versions of about half of the papers presented at a conference on the title topic held in May 2000.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : as the dust settles : welfare reform and rural America / Leslie A. Whitener, Bruce A. Weber, Greg Duncan -- Approaching the limit : early national lessons from welfare reform / Sheldon Danziger -- Rural labor markets in an era of welfare reform / Robert M. Gibbs -- Rural America in transition : poverty and welfare at the turn of the twenty-first century / Daniel T. Lichter, Leif Jensen -- Reducing food stamp and welfare caseloads in the South : are rural areas less likely to succeed than urban centers? / Mark Henry, Lynn Reinschmiedt, Willis Lewis, Darren Hudson.
- Seasonal employment dynamics and welfare use in agricultural and rural California counties / Henry E. Brady, Mary Sprague, Fredric C. Gey, Michael Wiseman -- Location and the low-income experience : analyses of program dynamics in the Iowa family investment program / Helen H. Jensen, Shao-Hsun Keng, Steven Garasky -- Small towns and welfare reform : Iowa case studies of families and communities / Cynthia Needles Fletcher, Jan L. Flora, Barbara J. Gaddis, Mary Winter, Jacquelyn S. Litt.
- Where all the counties are above average : human service agency directors' perspectives on welfare reform / Ann Tickamyer, Julie White, Barry Tadlock, Debra Henderson -- The impact of welfare policy on the employment of single mothers living in rural and urban areas / Signe-Mary McKernan, Robert Lerman, Nancy Pindus, Jesse Valente -- Welfare reform in rural Minnesota : experimental findings from the Minnesota family investment program / Lisa A. Gennetian, Cindy Redcross, and Cynthia Miller.
- Will attainable jobs be available for TANF recipients in local labor markets? Evidence from Mississippi on prospects for "job-skill matching" of TANF adults / Frank M. Howell -- Whose job is it? Employers' views on welfare reform / Ellen Shelton, Greg Owen, Amy Bush Stevens, Justine Nelson-Christinedaughter, Corinna Roy, June Heineman -- The short-term impacts of welfare reform in persistently poor rural areas / Mark Harvey, Gene F. Summers, Kathleen Pickering, Patricia Richards -- Food stamps in rural America : special issues and common themes / Sheena McConnell, James Ohls.
- The decline in food stamp use by rural low-income households : less need or less access? / Mark Nord -- Lessons learned : welfare reform and food assistance in rural America / Greg Duncan, Leslie A. Whitener, Bruce A. Weber.
- ISBN
- 0880992395 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0880992409 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2002016815
- OCLC
- 48987469
- SCSB-10093385
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- Harvard Library