Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform : Welfare, Food Assistance, and Poverty in Rural America

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weber, Bruce A. (Bruce Alan), 1943-

Contributor:

Duncan, Greg J.

Whitener, Leslie A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.

United States.

Public welfare--United States.

Rural poor--United States.

Social service, Rural--United States.

United States. -- Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.

Local Subjects:

Public welfare--United States.

Rural poor--United States.

Social service, Rural--United States.

United States. -- Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (509 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kalamazoo : W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2002.

Summary:

Weber (Rural Policy Research Institute), Greg Duncan (Joint Center for Poverty Research), and Leslie Whitener (Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture) present 16 contributions to a joint research conference jointly sponsored by their respective organizations. The papers explore the rural dimensions of poverty in the wake of the passage of the welfare reform (or "welfare deform," as critics have dubbed it) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. Contributors find that while the legislation has been successful in the goal of caseload reduction, it has been considerably less successful in areas of poverty reduction and providing for peoples needs. They recommend policy initiatives that make jobs pay a reasonable wage and maintain or even reinstate parts of the social safety net. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Introduction: As the Dust Settles: Welfare Reform and Rural America, by Leslie A. Whitener, Bruce A. Weber, and Greg Duncan; 1 - Approaching the Limit: Early National Lessons from Welfare Reform, by Sheldon Danziger; 2 - Rural Labor Markets in an Era of Welfare Reform, by Robert M. Gibbs; 3 - Rural America in Transition: Poverty and Welfare at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, by Daniel T. Lichter and Leif Jensen

4 - Reducing Food Stamp and Welfare Caseloads in the South: Are Rural Areas Less Likely to Succeed Than Urban Centers?, by Mark Henry, Lynn Reinschmiedt, Willis Lewis Jr., and Darren Hudson5 - Seasonal Employment Dynamics and Welfare Use in Agricultural and Rural California Counties, by Henry E. Brady, Mary Sprague, Frederic C. Gey, and Michael Wiseman; 6 - Location and Low-Income Experience: Analyses of Program Dynamics in the Iowa Family Investment Program, by Helen H. Jensen, Shao-Hsun Keng, and Steven Garasky

7 - Small Towns and Welfare Reform: Iowa Case Studies of Families and Communities, by Cynthia Needles Fletcher, Jan L. Flora, Barbara J. Gaddis, Mary Winter, and Jacquelyn S. Litt8 - Where All the Counties are Above Average: Human Service Agency Directors' Perspectives on Welfare Reform, by Ann Tickamyer, Julie White, Barry Tadlock, and Debra Henderson; 9 - The Impact of Welfare Policy on the Employment of Single Mothers Living in Rural and Urban Areas, by Signe-Mary McKernan, Robert Lerman, Nancy Pindus, and Jesse Valente

10 - Welfare Reform in Rural Minnesota: Experimental Findings from the Minnesota Family Investment Program, by Lisa A. Gennetian, Cindy Redcross, and Cynthia Miller 11 - Will Attainable Jobs Be Available for TANF Recipients in Local Labor Markets?: Evidence from Mississippi on Prospects for ""Job-Matching"" of TANF Adults, by Frank M. Howell; 12 - Whose Job Is It?: Employers' Views on Welfare Reform, by Ellen Shelton, Greg Owen, Amy Bush Stevens, Justine Nelson-Christine daughter, Corinna Roy, and June Heineman

13 - The Short-Term Impacts of Welfare Reform in Persistently Poor Rural Areas, by Mark Harvey, Gene F. Summers, Kathleen Pickering, and Patricia Richards 14 - Food Stamps in Rural America: Special Issues and Common Themes, by Sheena McConnell and James Ohls; 15 - The Decline in Food Stamp Use by Rural Low-Income Households: Less Need or Less Access?, by Mark Nord; 16 - Lessons Learned: Welfare Reform and Food Assistance in Rural America, by Greg Duncan, Leslie A. Whitener, and Bruce A. Weber; The Authors; Cited Author Index; Subject Index; About the Institute

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-4175-0888-4

OCLC:

697755504