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Peer reviewedRickman, Dana K.; Foster, E. Michael – New Directions for Evaluation, 2001
Examined the status of children living in families leaving welfare, including closed child-only cases. Describes the child and the adult outcomes that predict long-term child outcomes. Data for about 2,210 single-parent leaver families and about 660 child-only cases provide details about how these families joined the working poor. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Employment, Welfare Recipients
Lennon, Mary Clare; Appelbaum, Lauren D.; Aber, J. Lawrence; McCaskie, Katherine – 2003
This study examined public attitudes toward the most vulnerable of the poor--those who experience significant personal or situational problems that can create obstacles to employment. Using both a factorial survey methodology and a general attitude survey, researchers gathered information about public opinion toward people in need, low-income…
Descriptors: Children, Employment, Low Income, Poverty
Download full textAcs, Gregory; Loprest, Pamela – 2001
This study examines the status of former welfare recipients in the District of Columbia (DC), highlighting families who left Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) in the last quarter of 1997 and of 1998. Researchers used data from the DC Department of Human Services and interviews with people who left in 1998. Between 1997-99, DC's cash…
Descriptors: Blacks, Children, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Schott, Liz – 2000
This paper analyzes the approaches that states can take to address the needs of families facing the loss of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits due to time limits. Ways in which these approaches can be funded with state or federal welfare funds are discussed. The paper examines how states can use federal TANF or state…
Descriptors: Children, Employment, Family Needs, Federal Aid
Dunifon, Rachel; Kalil, Ariel; Danziger, Sandra K. – 2002
Using data from a longitudinal sample of former and current welfare recipients in Michigan spanning 1997 through 1999, the Womens Employment Study, this analysis examined how transitions from welfare to work affect parenting behavior and child behavior problems. Researchers used a fixed-effects regression design to control for all time-invariant…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Children, Employment, Employment Patterns
Adams, Gina; Snyder, Kathleen; Sandfort, Jodi R. – 2002
This report examines what factors, besides funding and eligibility, affect whether eligible low-income parents who know they can get a child care subsidy actually use one. Data come from subsidy agency administrators, child care experts and caseworkers, parents, and providers at 17 sites in 12 states in 1999 as part of a case study project. This…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Children, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Peer reviewedPotocky, Miriam – Social Work, 1996
Examined the economic well-being of adult refugees who arrived in the United States as children. Examined five refugee groups (Southeast Asians, Soviets/East Europeans, Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans) using data from the 1990 Census of Population and Housing. Findings indicate the economic status of childhood refugee arrivals differed by…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Asian Americans, Children
Direct linkSlack, Kristen Shook; Holl, Jane L.; Lee, Bong Joo; McDaniel, Marla; Altenbernd, Lisa; Stevens, Amy Bush – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2003
Recent changes in welfare policy have produced changes in parental work and welfare receipt. These factors are assessed in relation to investigated reports of child abuse and neglect using survey data on 1998 welfare recipients in nine Illinois counties, in conjunction with longitudinal administrative data on cash welfare benefits, employment, and…
Descriptors: Employment, Counties, Child Abuse, Welfare Services
Phillips, Deborah, Ed.; Bridgman, Anne, Ed. – 1997
In April 1996 the Board on Children, Youth, and Families and the Family and Child Well-Being Research Network convened their second annual research briefing on welfare and children's development. The briefing was intended to: (1) create a venue for productive exchange between researchers and policy makers; (2) maximize the usefulness of research…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cooperation, Disadvantaged Youth
Kamerman, Sheila B., Ed.; Kahn, Alfred J., Ed. – 1997
"Confronting the New Politics of Child and Family Policy in the United States" is an 18-month project designed to help states, local governments, and the voluntary sector as they respond to the social policy debates and changes precipitated by the 104th Congress. The project's main vehicle, aside from exploratory and analytic work, is a…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Childhood Needs, Children, Eligibility
Brandon, Richard N.; Plotnick, Robert D. – 1996
This report examines data from a study of the relationship among work status, wage levels, marital status, education, age of youngest child and use of child care in allowing low income households to remain off welfare. The study described looking separately at public assistance status (whether a household received welfare) and recidivism (how long…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Children, Day Care, Day Care Centers
Oshinsky, Carole J., Ed. – The Forum, 2003
This document contains the 2003 issues of a quarterly newsletter encouraging collaborative research and informed policy on welfare reform and focusing on use of an on-line database of child welfare research projects, as well as on research and policy issues related to implementation studies, indicators of well-being, and administrative data. Each…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Children, Client Attitudes (Human Services), Data Collection
