This report provides interim findings from a study of families leaving welfare in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The study is designed to monitor the status of families leaving cash assistance at multiple times and to compare the experiences of exit cohorts drawn at quarterly intervals throughout the process of welfare reform implementation. The report…

An important question related to welfare reform is: "What has happened to the earnings and incomes of families who were receiving public assistance when the new policies took effect?" This question is addressed by examining the impacts of early state-level welfare waivers on the earnings and income growth of welfare recipients. Analysis…

Considerable research has been done on the relationship between Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) benefits and family structure. Evidence based on cross-state variation in welfare benefits and family structure indicates some nonzero effect of those benefits on marriage and fertility. It shows that time-series trends in family…

Parents on welfare as well as middle class parents took part in a training project designed to help them modify problem behaviors in their children. The guidelines developed in this project for group training and for the evaluation of outcome can be applied in various types of agencies. (Author)

Unlike American proposals for welfare reform which are concerned primarily with reducing costs by altering work behavior among present recipients of public assistance, British attempts to devise an income transfer system are based on the rationale that scarce resources should be concentrated upon those in the greatest need. (Editor)

Using 1960 Census data for New York City, regression equations are developed to test empirically: (1) the relationship between the proportion of female-headed households and ADC incidence and (2) the effect of ADC incidence on male and female labor force participation rates. (Editor)

Critical analysis of Roger Starr's contention that welfare recipients, particularly those households headed by females, are especially guilty of contributing to the welter of public housing problems. (RJ)

Asserts that it is time to clarify one's personal differences with and differentiation from those who use similar methodologies and rise by similar expertise, and time to examine one's own exploitation and one's cooperation with those who exploit the masses of Americans. (RJ)

Assesses the effects of the Talmadge amendment to the Work Incentive Program" bill-both on President Nixon's welfare proposals, and on welfare recipients themselves. (RJ)

A case study of a student in an experimental program at San Francisco State College which demonstrates that the prestige of college ambience is motivating to hard-core women undertaking clerical training. The program's statistics: 85 percent placement and 98 percent retention. (Author/JB)

Draws some lessons from Europe's experience with job creation. (BH)

The relationship of welfare status and socioeconomic status (SES) to employment outcomes following prevocational programs for mentally retarded young adults was investigated. While at least half of those clients who were either on welfare or from low SES were successful. The findings suggest the need for continual improved strategies for…

Using traditional anthropological methods of field study of families and living with a Black welfare family and a Caucasian family provided bases for developing an analysis of the socialization patterns. Implications of these patterns for family planning, or the lack of family planning, are discussed. (Author)

Examined the impact of the AFDC mandatory work registration policy on AFDC clients and their families. Data showed 19 percent reported positive and 28 percent reported negative individual effects; five percent reported positive and 24 percent reported negative family effects. (Author)

Welfare clients were selected and half were randomly assigned to Job Club program. Of continuing clients, 87 percent obtained jobs. Jobs obtained by Job Club clients were more likely to be enduring, nonsubsidized, and obtained by job-seeker's own efforts. Method appears to assure employment to all participating welfare clients. (Author/BEF)