Welfare, Work, and Poverty Status of Female-Headed Families with Children 1987-2009

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child welfare.

Children.

Occupations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection

Place of Publication:

[United States] [publisher not identified] 2011

Summary:

Details trends in the economic well-being of female-headed families with children, prior and subsequent to replacement of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. Describes policy landscape on eve of 1996 welfare reform, TANF and other policies in the post-AFDC era, and policy responses to changing economic condition. Addresses welfare, work, and poverty status of female-headed families with children, employment of single mothers, receipt of selected poverty benefits, and effects of earnings transfers, and taxes on poverty status of single mothers

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Microfiche version Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Welfare, Work, and Poverty Status of Female-Headed Families with Children

Publisher Number:

CRS-2011-DSP-0672

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