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After Welfare

Over the past few years, the American RadioWorks has raised the bar for like-minded radio documentary programs, producing thought-provoking and insightful studies on topics such as, Congressional reform, intelligent design, and international adoption programs. In this recently released documentary, John Biewen has created this introspective look into the world of welfare reform in the United...

http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/welfare/
Feminist Perspectives on TANF Reauthorization: An Introduction to Key Issues for the Future of Welfare Reform

In 1996, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) replaced the federal cash public assistance program Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) with the state-level block grant Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program. By September 30, 2002, the TANF program has to receive congressional reauthorization, and it is expected that Congress will...

https://iwpr.org/iwpr-general/feminist-perspectives-on-tanf-...
Jobs First: Final Report on Connecticut's Welfare Reform Initiative

Since its establishment in 1996, Connecticut's Job First Welfare Reform Program has been under rigorous evaluation. As a result, under a contract with the Connecticut Department of Social Services, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC) decided to study the effects of the Job First Program. During the study, nearly 5,000 single-parent welfare applicants and recipients in Manchester and...

https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED465076
Left Behind in the Labor Market: Recent Employment Trends Among Young Black Men

Written by Paul Offner and Harry Holzer, Professors at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, "Left Behind in the Labor Market: Recent Employment Trends Among Young Black Men" is a nine page report that compares the employment trends of young black men with no more than a high school education to other groups of the same educational background over the past two decades. According to the report,...

https://www.brookings.edu/research/left-behind-in-the-labor-...
Policy experts, politicians, and others debate successes and failures of welfare reform

On and off the rolls, women work to get ahead http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/15329233.htm NPR: Legislator Offers First-Person View of Welfare [Real Player] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5689095 In Focus: Ten Years of Welfare Reform [pdf] http://www.brookings.edu/comm/infocus/welfare.htm NPR: Where the Welfare Law Failed...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2006/0825
Welfare Reform and New York City's Low-Income Population

In this recent paper from the Institute for Poverty Research's Working Papers series, Howard Chernick and Cordelia Reimers examine the Current Population Survey in 1994-1995 and 1997-1999 to see if there was a discernible drop in households receiving public assistance in New York City. While they found that the proportion of households receiving at least one public assistance benefit remained the...

https://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/dps/pdfs/dp125602.pdf
Welfare Reform: States' Experiences in Providing Employment Assistance to TANF Clients

This report, recently released by the US General Accounting Office (GAO), examines some of the consequences of the federal Welfare Reform Act of 1996. The report studies how five states -- Arizona, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin -- have been implementing the new Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, which supplies time-limited assistance to recipients while helping...

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-99-22/ht...