Research Catalog

Title

Welfare reform and beyond : the future of the safety net / Isabel V. Sawhill ... [et al.], editors.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution, c2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brookings Institution.
• Sawhill, Isabel V.

Description

x, 214 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Summary

The Brookings Institution’s Welfare Reform & Beyond Initiative was created to inform the critical policy debates surrounding the upcoming congressional reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and a number of related programs that were created or dramatically altered by the 1996 landmark welfare reform legislation. This capstone collection gathers twenty brief essays (published between January 2001 and February 2002) that focus on assessing the record of welfare reform, specific issues likely to be debated before the TANF reauthorization, and a broader set of policy options for low-income families.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Alternative Title

Future of the safety net

Subject

• Aid to families with dependent children programs > Law and legislation > United States
• Public welfare > United States
• Public welfare administration > Law and legislation > United States
• Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (Program)
• Welfare recipients > Employment > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. I. Introduction and summary. An overview / Isabel Sawhill, R. Kent Weaver, and Andrea Kane -- Results to date / Isabel Sawhill [and others] -- Problems and issues for reauthorization / Isabel Sawhill [and others] -- pt. II. State responses. State policy choices under welfare reform / Thomas Gais and R. Kent Weaver -- Changing welfare offices / Irene Lurie -- Sanctions and welfare reform / Dan Bloom and Don Winstead -- pt. III. Results to date. Welfare reform and poverty / Ron Haskins and Wendell Primus -- Which welfare reforms are best for children? / Pamela A. Morris and Greg J. Duncan -- From welfare to work : what the evidence shows / Robert A. Moffitt -- pt. IV. TANF funding and the economy. The structure of the TANF block grant / R. Kent Weaver -- Welfare and the economy / Rebecca M. Blank -- pt. V. Encouraging and rewarding work. Welfare reform and the work support system / Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins -- The role of education and training in welfare reform / Judith M. Gueron and Gayle Hamilton -- Job retention and advancement in welfare reform / Nancye Campbell, John K. Maniha, and Howard Rolston -- Helping the hard-to-employ / LaDonna Pavetti -- pt. VI. Family formation. Reducing non-marital births / Paul Offner -- Fragile families, welfare reform, and marriage / Sara McLanahan, Irwin Garfinkel, and Ronald B. Mincy -- What can be done to reduce teen pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births? / Isabel Sawhill -- pt. VII. Related programs. Food stamps and welfare reform / Michael Wiseman -- Health insurance, welfare, and work / Alan Weil and John Holahan -- Child care and welfare reform / Gina Adams and Monica Rohacek -- Welfare reform and housing / Rebecca Swartz and Brian Miller -- Welfare benefits for non-citizens / Michael Fix and Ron Haskins.

ISBN

0815706391

LCCN

^^2002283471

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library