The new world of welfare / Rebecca M. Blank, Ron Haskins, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blank, Rebecca M.

Haskins, Ron.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare--United States.

Public welfare.

United States--Social policy.

United States.

United States--Economic policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (528 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Congress must reauthorize the sweeping 1996 welfare reform legislation by October 1, 2002. A number of issues that were prominent in the 1995-96 battle over welfare reform are likely to resurface in the debate over reauthorization. Among those issues are the five-year time limit, provisions to reduce out-of-wedlock births, the adequacy of child care funding, problems with Medicaid and food stamp receipt by working families, and work requirements. Funding levels are also certain to be controversial. Fiscal conservatives will try to lower grant spending levels, while states will seek to maintain

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1 Welfare Reform: An Agenda for Reauthorization

Ron Haskins and Rebecca M. Blank

Part II: The Biggest Issues

2 Implementation of the Personal Responsibility

Act of 1996

Thomas L. Gais, Richard P? Nathan, Irene Lurie,

and Thomas Kaplan

Comment: Susan Golonka

Work, Wages, and Welfare

Rebecca M. Blank and Lucie Schmidt

Comment: Robert Topel

Effects of Welfare Reform on Family Income

and Poverty

Ron Haskins

Comment: Wendell Primus

5 Family Formation / 13

Charles Murray

Comment: Rebecca A. Maynard

6 The Politics of Welfare Reform 1

Hugh Heclo

7 The Politics of Conservative Welfare Reform 2

Lawrence M. Mead

Part III: Specific Issues and Policies

8 Improving Employment Outcomes under TANF

Julie Strawn, Mark Greenberg, and Steve Savner

Comment: Eloise Anderson

9 State Sanctions and Time Limits

LaDonna Pavetti and Dan Bloom

Comment: Robert Rector

10 Financial Work Incentives for Low-Wage Workers

Charles Michalopoulos and Gordon Berlin

Comment: Glenn C. Loury

11 Work Experience under Welfare Reform

Jason A. Turner and Thomas Main

Comment: Clifford M. Johnson

12 Will TANF Work for the Most Disadvantaged Families?

Sheila R Zedlewski and Pamela Loprest

Comment: Sheldon Danziger

13 Supporting Work through Medicaid and Food Stamps

Robert Greenstein andJocelyn Guyer

Comment: Don Winstead

Comment: Gary Stangler

Welfare Reform and Immigration

George Borjas

Comment: Michael Fix

15 Welfare Reform and Children's Well-Being

GregJ. Duncan and P Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

Comment: C. Eugene Steuerle

Part IV Associated Program Reforms

16 Fathers, Marriage, and Welfare Reform

Wade E Horn and Isabel V Sawhill

Comment: Ronald B. Mincy

17 Child Support in the New World of Welfare

Irwin Garfinkel

Comment: Robert I. Lerman

18 Child Care after Welfare Reform

Douglas J. Besharov with Nazanin Samari

Comment: Kristin Anderson Moore, Martha Zaslow,

Sharon McGroder, and Kathryn Tout

19 Effects of the 1996 Welfare Reform Changes

on the SSI Program

Lynn A. Karoly, Jacob Alex Klerman, andJeannette A. Rogowski

Comment: Matt Weidinger

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815798378

0815798377

OCLC:

53482639