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Key articles on U.S. welfare
from across the political spectrum on the Web for citizens,
students, researchers and policy makers.
- What's New from the Welfare Reform Academy
A project of the University of Maryland School of Public Affairs.
An educational institution designed to help state and local officials, private social service providers, and other interested parties understand best practices in dealing with poverty and child welfare issues. ...
- Welfare, Children, & Families
John Hopkins University
Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study is a longitudinal study of children and their caregivers in low-income families that were living in low-income neighborhoods in three cities...
- Welfare Reform from the Administration for Children (ACF) and Families at HHS
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is responsible for federal programs that promote the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals, and communities...
- Welfare Reform
NGA Center for Best Practices
National Governors Association
The Center for Best Practices provides technical assistance to state policymakers and program administrators to help them respond to the emerging challenges and opportunities in welfare reform. ...
- Welfare Reform News
National Conference of State Legislatures
Innovative state welfare programs moved millions of people off the rolls and into the workforce. Recently, state welfare agencies have studied how those who have left welfare are fairing....
- The Civil
Liberties Issues of Welfare Reform
(New York: The American Civil Liberties Union)
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Cause Texas Ain't Takin' Care of You No More.
The Austin Chronicle
(Great article on Welfare Reform from a street side point
of view!)
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Employment Research
Newsletter
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
An independent, not-for-profit research organization devoted
to finding, evaluating, and promoting solutions to employment-related
problems.
- Article from the Upjohn site:
The Role of AFDC Benefits in Location Choice
by Carole Roan Gresenz
- Five
Media Myths About Welfare
From Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.
- Welfare Reform: An Analysis of the Issues
By Isabel V. Sawhill
At the nonpartisan Urban Institute
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The
Impact of Federal and State Policy Changes on Child Care
in California
By M. Rebecca Kilburn (RAND) and Lingxin Hao (University
of Iowa)
(Good study on the effects of welfare reform and child care.)
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Jobs,
Not JOBS -
What It Takes To Put Welfare Recipients To Work,
Policy Briefing, By Lyn A. Hogan.
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Welfare
Reform Forum
Atlantic Monthly
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Replacing
Welfare (Excerpt)
By Michael Tanner, author of The End of Welfare: Fighting
Poverty in the Civil Society.
- State
Welfare Reforms: Institute for Research on Poverty
"Evaluating Comprehensive State Welfare Reforms"
at this important Wisconson policy institute.
- Urban Institute:
Assessing the New Federalism
This is their new web site for the multi-year assessment
of
U.S. Welfare Reform. This project and the databases will
be an extremely
important tool for welfare researchers. A great web site
to keep track of,
in spite of the large database and download times.
- Urban
Institute on welfare reform. (Fifteen articles.)
- Urban
Institute: Ten new briefs at the New Federalism web site.
Good discussion of social services spending and the
effects
on TANF, Medicare and Medicaid on state and federal budgets.
A must read for local, state and federal budget planners.
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The IWPR online store - Classics: The Best of IWPR Research over the Years
IWPR is known for its many path-breaking studies over the years- studies which often applied a gendered perspective in a unique way or to a new issue or developed new research methods or theoretical concepts to address issues of special concern to women. Includes many articles on poverty and welfare studies.
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Welfare
Reform As I Knew It
When Bad Things Happen to Good Policies
By Daniel T. Ellwood
The American Prospect no. 26:22-29.
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The
Worst Thing Clinton Has Done
By Peter Edelman, The Atlantic Monthly.
According to Atlantic Monthly : "A former high Clinton
Administration official with responsibility for social
policy, resigned his office last year rather than be a
party to the president's signing of a "welfare-reform"
bill. Here he speaks out for the first time."
Check out: Atlantic
Unbound.
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Welfare Reform & Beyond
The Brookings Institution
Welfare Reform and Beyond:
The Future
of the Safety
Net, Living On and Off Welfare: Family Experiences and Ethnographic Research and many more articles
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