Research Catalog

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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Additional Authors

• Weber, Bruce A. (Bruce Alan), 1943-
• Duncan, Greg J.
• Whitener, Leslie A.

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

• United States
• Rural poor > United States
• Social service, Rural > United States
• Public welfare > United States

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

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library