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Welfare reform and beyond : the future of the safety net /

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 dramati...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Brookings Institution
Otros Autores: Sawhill, Isabel V.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution, ©2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.