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Download full textAhluwalia, Surjeet K.; McGroder, Sharon M.; Zaslow, Martha J.; Hair, Elizabeth C. – 2001
This brief is one of a series written to help inform public debate surrounding the 2002 reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant. The brief examines the level of depressive symptoms among samples of welfare recipients studied in five experimental evaluations of welfare-to-work programs. The brief notes…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Employment Problems, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Acs, 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
Arizona State Univ., Tempe. Morrison Inst. for Public Policy. – 2001
This publication presents the views expressed by the major speakers at "More Promises to Keep: Sustaining Arizona's Capacity for Welfare and Health Reform," concluding a 3-year study of welfare and health reform in the state. The publication also summarizes the discussions of three special interest sessions. The speakers' op-ed-style…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, State Action
Peer reviewedMcCormick, Lynn – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2003
Examines the extent to which urban community colleges are able to develop new programs for welfare recipients under welfare reform. Reports that, according to a survey of New York City's community colleges, although the policy environment has dampened new programming for welfare recipients among these institutions, some exemplary programs have…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Program Implementation, Public Policy, Two Year Colleges
Pilkington, Dorothy – Momentum, 1997
Discusses the need for citizen involvement to help restore and improve nutrition programs cut by the welfare reform bill. Describes various activities to offset government cutbacks and ease hunger in America. (YKH)
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Economically Disadvantaged, Hunger, Nutrition
Peer reviewedMills, Frederick B. – Social Work, 1996
Critiques recent welfare reform proposals and recommends social work practices that humanize Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). The critique deconstructs the labels "dependent,""addict," and "illegitimate" as they are applied to AFDC mothers and explores the reproduction of stigma through social work…
Descriptors: Children, Dependents, Females, Labeling (of Persons)
Johnson, Grantland – 1996
President Clinton has repeatedly called for a bipartisan welfare reform bill that is tough on work and responsibility, but not tough on children. This means providing adequate child care to enable recipients to leave welfare for work; rewarding states for placing people in jobs; guaranteeing health coverage for families leaving welfare for…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Program Descriptions, State Programs, Undocumented Immigrants
Clhild Care Action Campaign Issue Brief, 1997
The recent overhaul of the federal welfare system gives states new flexibility to set child care policies, develop child care programs, and fund new initiatives. The Child Care Action Campaign (CCAC) conducted an audioconference on July 31, 1997, to examine key elements of new state plans and to take a close look at how one state, Illinois, made…
Descriptors: Day Care, Financial Support, Policy Formation, Program Descriptions
Child Care Action Campaign, New York, NY. – 1997
On December 11, 1997, the Child Care Action Campaign (CCAC) hosted an audioconference to explore the issue of how parents seeking to get off welfare can learn about subsidies available for child care in the transition from welfare to work. Presenters were Doug Baird, president of Associated Day Care Services in Boston, who discussed lessons of a…
Descriptors: Day Care, Diffusion (Communication), Early Childhood Education, Grants
Margolin, Ilene; And Others – 1986
This report highlights the interconnectedness of welfare reform and broader strategies concerning the economy, education, and the conditions of work. Recommendations are presented for policies that would help working poor families avoid dependence on welfare. The report is divided into five chapters. Chapter I summarizes major findings and…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Labor Market, Poverty
Rein, Mildred – 1974
Such factors as a belief in individual freedom of choice, the support of minority groups' rights, and a concern for the psychological effects of mothering on children have tended to mitigate against a clear-cut advocacy of the employment of mothers under Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). Two recent phenomena, however, have emerged…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Employed Women, Employment, Federal Aid
Sard, Barbara – 2001
This paper describes the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program, an employment and savings incentive program for low-income families that have Section 8 vouchers or live in public housing. It consists of both case management services to help participants pursue employment and other goals and escrow accounts into which the public housing agency…
Descriptors: Employment, Family Income, Incentives, Low Income Groups
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
Blum, Barbara B.; Farnsworth, Jennifer; Lennon, Mary Clare; Winn, Ellen – 2000
Research continues to provide valuable information about the effects of welfare changes on families receiving public assistance. This working paper is the second in a series of three examining what has been learned since the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996. Following an introduction…
Descriptors: Children, Family (Sociological Unit), Federal Legislation, Research Methodology
Kosar, Kevin R., Ed. – 2003
This conference examined the current welfare policy and the continued use of higher education as a tool for moving low-income people into self-supporting careers. The proceedings include: welcoming remarks by Stephen Greenwald; keynote addresses by William Spriggs and Danny Simmons; a lunch address by Rae Alexander-Minter; remarks by Patricia…
Descriptors: Career Development, Federal Legislation, Higher Education, Low Income Groups
