Meeting The Challenges Of Welfare Reform

Author : Jack Tweedie,National Conference of State Legislatures
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Aid to families with dependent children programs
ISBN : UCSD:31822026106617

Get Book

Meeting the Challenges of Welfare Reform by Jack Tweedie,National Conference of State Legislatures Pdf

As a result of federal legislation aimed at welfare reform, states have been transforming welfare in new ways. Critical questions remain, however, and policymakers must continue to develop new ideas and implement programs from other states. This book contributes to the learning process among states by sharing program innovations and analyses to help states realize their goals for a new welfare that helps recipients find and keep jobs that will enable them to support their families without welfare. The first section of the guide provides an overview of meeting the challenges of welfare reform. The second section, "Finding and Creating Jobs for Welfare Recipients," addresses job development, microenterprise programs, targeted state employment, and community service. The third section, "Preparing Recipients for Work," addresses assessment, support services, job readiness, education, vocational training, and work experiences. The fourth section, "Child Care," examines the issues of eligibility, copayment, and reimbursement rates and mechanisms. The fifth section, "Getting to Work: Providing Transportation in a Work-Based System," addresses the transportation dilemma, transit alternatives, and life after welfare. The sixth section, "Ensuring the Well-Being of Children Under Welfare Reform," addresses tracking families that leave welfare, safety net programs, and effects on the child welfare system. The seventh section, "Overseeing Welfare Reform: Accountability, Financing and Devolution," addresses block grants and state spending. (Contains 43 notes.) (SD)

Author : Jack Tweedie,Steve Christian,Scott Groginsky,Dana Reichert,Amy Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1393119524

Get Book

Meeting the Challenges of Welfare Reform by Jack Tweedie,Steve Christian,Scott Groginsky,Dana Reichert,Amy Brown Pdf

As a result of federal legislation aimed at welfare reform, states have been transforming welfare in new ways. Critical questions remain, however, and policymakers must continue to develop new ideas and implement programs from other states. This book contributes to the learning process among states by sharing program innovations and analyses to help states realize their goals for a new welfare that helps recipients find and keep jobs that will enable them to support their families without welfare. The first section of the guide provides an overview of meeting the challenges of welfare reform. The second section, "Finding and Creating Jobs for Welfare Recipients," addresses job development, microenterprise programs, targeted state employment, and community service. The third section, "Preparing Recipients for Work," addresses assessment, support services, job readiness, education, vocational training, and work experiences. The fourth section, "Child Care," examines the issues of eligibility, copayment, and reimbursement rates and mechanisms. The fifth section, "Getting to Work: Providing Transportation in a Work-Based System," addresses the transportation dilemma, transit alternatives, and life after welfare. The sixth section, "Ensuring the Well-Being of Children Under Welfare Reform," addresses tracking families that leave welfare, safety net programs, and effects on the child welfare system. The seventh section, "Overseeing Welfare Reform: Accountability, Financing and Devolution," addresses block grants and state spending. (Contains 43 notes.) (SD).

Author : JAMES L. MORRISON
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138349682

Get Book

The Healing of America by JAMES L. MORRISON Pdf

First published in 1997, this volume responds to a world in the midst of a telecommunications revolution. What this means is that societies throughout the world are now provided with new opportunities to solve nagging problems. One problem which is the focus of this book is the continual pockets of poverty that exist in countries around the world. In this regard, welfare reform has been slow in coming as nations struggle for allocating limited resources for meeting the needs of all citizens within its boundaries. This book describes a welfare model that is quite innovative, imaginative, but also practical. It can be readily implemented in any country in the world, although the example used in this book is that of one country. The welfare reform model suggested here is all about freedom, opportunity and equity. At its conclusion, it challenges the reader to take welfare reform to the next level.

Author : Christine A. Kelleher,Susan Webb Yackee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Public welfare
ISBN : 1560114150

Get Book

Meeting Challenges by Christine A. Kelleher,Susan Webb Yackee Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309184113

Get Book

Evaluating Welfare Reform by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs Pdf

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 fundamentally changed the nation's social welfare system, replacing a federal entitlement program for low-income families, called Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), with state-administered block grants, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. PRWORA furthered a trend started earlier in the decade under so called "waiver" programs-state experiments with different types of AFDC rules-toward devolution of design and control of social welfare programs from the federal government to the states. The legislation imposed several new, major requirements on state use of federal welfare funds but otherwise freed states to reconfigure their programs as they want. The underlying goal of the legislation is to decrease dependence on welfare and increase the self-sufficiency of poor families in the United States. In summer 1998, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) asked the Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council to convene a Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs. The panel's overall charge is to study and make recommendations on the best strategies for evaluating the effects of PRWORA and other welfare reforms and to make recommendations on data needs for conducting useful evaluations. This interim report presents the panel's initial conclusions and recommendations. Given the short length of time the panel has been in existence, this report necessarily treats many issues in much less depth than they will be treated in the final report. The report has an immediate short-run goal of providing DHHS-ASPE with recommendations regarding some of its current projects, particularly those recently funded to study "welfare leavers"-former welfare recipients who have left the welfare rolls as part of the recent decline in welfare caseloads.

Author : Royston, Sam
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447333272

Get Book

Broken Benefits by Royston, Sam Pdf

Britain is going through the most radical upheaval of the benefits system since its foundations were laid at the end of the 1940s. In Broken Benefits, Sam Royston argues that social security isn’t working, and without a change in direction, it will be even less fair in the future. Drawing on original research and high-profile debates, this much-needed book provides an introductory guide to social security, correcting misunderstandings and exposing poorly understood problems. It reveals how some workers pay to take on additional hours; that those who pay national insurance contributions may get nothing in return; that some families can be paid to split apart; and that many people on the lowest incomes are seeing their retirement age rise the fastest. Broken Benefits includes real-life stories, models of household budgets, projections of benefit spending, and a free online calculator showing the impact of welfare changes on personal finances. The book presents practical ideas of how benefits should be reformed, to create a fairer, simpler and more coherent system for the future.

Author : Sharon Hays
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195176014

Get Book

Flat Broke with Children by Sharon Hays Pdf

This text explores the impact of recent welfare reform on motherhood, marriage, and work in women's lives. It also focuses on what welfare reform reveals about work and family life, and its impact on us all.

Author : Jun Choi, Young,Fleckenstein, Timo,Soohyun Christine Lee
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447352730

Get Book

Welfare Reform and Social Investment Policy in Europe and East Asia by Jun Choi, Young,Fleckenstein, Timo,Soohyun Christine Lee Pdf

Providing original observations, this seminal text analyses the emergence of social investment policies in both Europe and East Asia. Experts explore the roads and barriers towards effective social investment policies, derive practical social policy implications and highlight important lessons for future social policymaking.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309171342

Get Book

Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs Pdf

Reform of welfare is one of the nation's most contentious issues, with debate often driven more by politics than by facts and careful analysis. Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition identifies the key policy questions for measuring whether our changing social welfare programs are working, reviews the available studies and research, and recommends the most effective ways to answer those questions. This book discusses the development of welfare policy, including the landmark 1996 federal law that devolved most of the responsibility for welfare policies and their implementation to the states. A thorough analysis of the available research leads to the identification of gaps in what is currently known about the effects of welfare reform. Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition specifies what-and why-we need to know about the response of individual states to the federal overhaul of welfare and the effects of the many changes in the nation's welfare laws, policies, and practices. With a clear approach to a variety of issues, Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition will be important to policy makers, welfare administrators, researchers, journalists, and advocates on all sides of the issue.

Author : Wisconsin. Legislature. Legislative Reference Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Wisconsin
ISBN : UOM:39015084474892

Get Book

Informational Bulletin by Wisconsin. Legislature. Legislative Reference Bureau Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1538 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Finance, Public
ISBN : UCAL:B3566336

Get Book

Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Finance by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance Pdf

Author : National Alliance of Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Career education
ISBN : PSU:000048870344

Get Book

Meeting the Challenges by National Alliance of Business Pdf

Author : Burt S. Barnow,Thomas Kaplan,Robert A. Moffitt
Publisher : Rockefeller Institute Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438436340

Get Book

Evaluating Comprehensive State Welfare Reform by Burt S. Barnow,Thomas Kaplan,Robert A. Moffitt Pdf

The recent delegation of authority for welfare programs from the federal government to the states has stimulated increasingly complex and comprehensive reforms which seek in part to generate social messages that discourage dependency on public assistance, promote work, and influence family formation decisions. The message-sending emphasis of the new reforms and their comprehensiveness often makes them hard to evaluate through conventional experimental designs using treatment and control groups. This book offers a lucid discussion of issues involved in evaluating the new reforms, and applies those issues to the evaluation of welfare reform in one state, Wisconsin, which offers a leading example of comprehensive welfare reform. The book opens with an overview of the different types of program evaluation and summarizes clearly the basic issues that are involved in their conduct. A discussion of general evaluation strategies for the new welfare reforms, such as the selection and use of counterfactuals, is followed by consideration of both implementation and impact evaluations of the Wisconsin program. The final section considers the evaluation of specific impacts of the Wisconsin program on economic well-being, family structure, child care services, child support, child welfare, and children with disabilities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Public welfare
ISBN : PURD:32754081246997

Get Book

Research and Statistics to Meet Today's Needs and Tomorrow's Challenges by Anonim Pdf

Author : Douglas Besharov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351520508

Get Book

Family and Child Well-being After Welfare Reform by Douglas Besharov Pdf

Since their historic high in 1994, welfare caseloads in the United States have dropped an astounding 59 percent--more than 5 million fewer families receive welfare. Family and Child Well-Being after Welfare Reform, now in paperback, explores how low-income children and their families are faring in the wake of welfare reform. Contributors to the volume include leading social researchers. Can existing surveys and other data be used to measure trends in the area? What key indicators should be tracked? What are the initial trends after welfare reform? What other information or approaches would be helpful? The book covers a broad range of topics: an update on welfare reform (Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis); ongoing major research (Peter H. Rossi); material well-being, such as earnings, benefits, and consumption (Richard Bavier); family versus household (Wendy D. Manning); fatherhood, cohabitation, and marriage (Wade F. Horn); teenage sex, pregnancy, and nonmarital births (Isabel V. Sawhill); child maltreatment and foster care (Richard J. Gelles); homelessness and housing (John C. Weicher); child health and well-being (Lorraine V. Klerman); nutrition, food security, and obesity (Harold S. Beebout); crime, juvenile delinquency, and dysfunctional behavior (Lawrence W. Sherman); drug use (Peter Reuter); mothers' work and child care (Julia B. Isaacs); and the activities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Don Winstead and Ann McCormick). When welfare reform was first debated, many people feared that it would hurt the poor, especially children. The contributors find little evidence to suggest this has occurred. As time limits and other programmatic requirements take hold, more information will be needed to assess the condition of low-income families after welfare reform. This informative volume establishes a baseline for that assessment.