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For better and for worse : welfare reform and the well-being of children and families / Greg J. Duncan, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child welfare--United States.
- Child welfare.
- United States.
- Family services--United States.
- Family services.
- Public welfare--United States.
- Public welfare.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2001]
- Contents:
- For better and for worse: welfare reform and the well-being of children and families / Greg J. Duncan and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
- Liberal and conservative influences on the welfare reform legislation of 1996 / Ron Haskins
- Welfare reform, management systems, and policy theories of child well-being / Cathy M. Johnson and Thomas L. Gais
- How do state policymakers think about family processes and child development in low-income families? / Kristin Anderson Moore
- Program redesign by states in the wake of welfare reform: making sense of the effects of devolution / Alan Weil
- Sanctions and exits: what states know about families that leave welfare because of sanctions and time limits / Jack Tweedie
- How different are welfare and working families? And do these differences matter for children's achievement? / Greg J. Duncan ... [et al.]
- My children come first: welfare-reliant women's post-TANF views of work-family trade-offs and marriage / Ellen K. Scott ... [et al.]
- Does maternal employment mandated by welfare reform affect children's behavior? / Ariel Kalil, Rachel E. Dunifon, and Sandra K. Danziger
- Lessons from New Hope: the impact on children's well-being of a work-based antipoverty program for parents / Rashmita S. Mistry ... [et al.]
- How families view and use lump-sum payments from the earned income tax credit / Jennifer L. Romich and Thomas S. Weisner
- Welfare waivers and nonmarital childbearing / Ann E. Horvath-Rose and H. Elizabeth Peters
- Reducing child poverty by improving the work-based safety net / Wendell Primus and Kristina Daugirdas
- Effects of welfare reform at four years / Ron Haskins
- Reforming the social family contract: public support for child learning in the United States / Paula England and Nancy Folbre
- Lessons learned / P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale and Greg J. Duncan.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0871542455
- OCLC:
- 47200413
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