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Sanctions in the CalWORKS program / Jacob Alex Klerman, P. Jane McClure Burstain.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klerman, Jacob Alex.
- Series:
- Technical report (Rand Corporation) ; TR-540-CDSS.
- Technical report ; TR-540-CDSS
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aid to families with dependent children programs--California.
- Aid to families with dependent children programs.
- Welfare recipients--California.
- Welfare recipients.
- Fines (Penalties)--California.
- Fines (Penalties).
- California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (Program).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (179 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 2004, the California legislature passed a bill that tightened the participation requirement for California?s welfare program, the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program (CalWORKs) and mandated a study of CalWORKs sanction policy for participant noncompliance in the welfare-to-work program. RAND was asked by the California Department of Social Services to carry out this study. Researchers found that county welfare caseworkers? implementation of the state?s statutory sanction policy makes the sanctions weaker in practice than might have been expected given stated policy
- Contents:
- Introduction
- CalWORKS sanction policy
- Implementation of sanction policy
- Why clients are sanctioned and home visits
- Prevalence of sanction and characteristics of those sanctioned
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-154).
- ISBN:
- 1-281-73673-2
- 9786611736736
- 0-8330-4604-7
- 0-8330-4499-0
- OCLC:
- 476182882
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