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Welfare reform and its long-term consequences for America's poor /

Two decades of federal and state-level demonstration projects and experiments concerning cash welfare in the United States culminated with the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, better known as welfare reform. Ten years after reform there remain a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ziliak, James Patrick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Two decades of federal and state-level demonstration projects and experiments concerning cash welfare in the United States culminated with the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, better known as welfare reform. Ten years after reform there remain a host of unanswered questions on the well-being of low-income families. In Welfare Reform and its Long Term Consequences for America's Poor, many of the nation's leading poverty experts address these and related outcomes to assess the longer-term effects of welfare reform. A diverse array of survey and administrative data are brought to bear to examine the effects of welfare reform and the concomitant expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit on the level and distribution of income, the composition of consumption, employment, public versus private health insurance coverage, health and education outcomes of children, marriage, and social service delivery.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 372 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780521764254
0521764254
0511603592
9780511603594
9780511605086
0511605080