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New Findings on New York City's Conditional Cash Transfer Program. Fast Focus. No. 18-2013
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Riccio, James A. – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2013
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) are long-standing policies that link cash assistance to low-income families to work effort. A new policy being tested in New York City adopts this "conditional cash transfer" principle and extends it to a broader set of family efforts to build their…
Descriptors: Tax Credits, Family Income, Poverty, Low Income Groups
Escaping Poverty: Rural Low-Income Mothers' Opportunity to Pursue Post-Secondary Education
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Woodford, Michelle; Mammen, Sheila – Career and Technical Education Research, 2010
Using human capital theory, this paper identifies the factors that may affect the opportunity for rural low-income mothers to pursue post-secondary education or training in order to escape poverty. Dependent variables used in the logistic regression model included micro-level household variables as well as the effects of state-wide welfare…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Poverty, Mothers, Educational Opportunities
The Implications of Differences between Employer and Worker Employment/Earnings Reports for Policy Evaluation
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Wallace, Geoffrey L.; Haveman, Robert – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2007
Differences in administrative (UI) and survey (S) records on employment and earnings have substantial implications for assessing the impact of a variety of public interventions, such as welfare-to-work and employment training programs, and especially the state-oriented welfare reform legislation of 1996. We use data from the 1998 and 1999 waves of…
Descriptors: Welfare Services, Employment, Human Capital, Welfare Recipients
Utilizing Workforce Investment Act Programs and TANF To Provide Education and Training Opportunities To Reduce Poverty among Low-Income Women. Testimony [before the] House Education and the Workforce Committee, Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
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Gault, Barbara – 2002
Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and the TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) programs can be coordinated in a number of ways, some of them especially focused on women. For example, research suggests the following: (1) WIA and TANF can be coordinated to improve low-income women's human capital development; (2) many states and localities…
Descriptors: Adults, Coordination, Employed Women, Federal Legislation
TANF Participation Rates: Do Community Conditions Matter?
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Parisi, Domenico; McLaughlin, Diane K.; Grice, Steven Michael; Taquino, Michael; Gill, Duane A. – Rural Sociology, 2003
Single mothers' participation rates in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) in rural Mississippi were influenced by community-level characteristics: educational attainment, racial composition, employment structure, civic engagement, and spatial concentration of poverty. Particularly, TANF participation rates were higher in the Delta and…
Descriptors: Black Community, Blacks, Community Characteristics, Community Resources
How Effective Are Different Welfare-to-Work Approaches? Five-Year Adult and Child Impacts for Eleven Programs. National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies.
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Hamilton, Gayle; Freedman, Stephen; et al. – 2001
The 5-year impacts of mandatory welfare-to-work programs on welfare recipients and their children were examined by using a rigorous research design called a social experiment to examine 11 welfare-to-work programs in 6 states (California, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Oregon). Four employment-focused and seven education-focused programs…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Care, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Comparative Analysis