41. R&E: Welfare Reform As part of their comprehensive welfare reform, the State of Ohio conducted the analyseswere conducted a process study, an impact analysis of significant http://www.macroint.com/content/research/Welfarereform.asp

WELFARE REFORM ORC Macro has been active in studying aspects of welfare reform and providing research and evaluation for a variety of initiatives that States have undertaken over the last decade. ORC Macro conducted post-program surveys of individuals served by Project Independence, the JOBS program the State of Maryland launched after the Family Support Act was enacted. The program was designed to ensure that families received education, training, and employment to avoid long-term welfare dependency. Our follow-up surveys collected information about employment, education, and training experiences of individuals 6 and 12 months after they left the program, as well as changes in family status and child care issues. In all, 2,400 former program participants were interviewed by telephone. Macro International Inc.

42. From Poverty To Punishment: How Welfare Reform Punishes The Poor An excellent analysis of the race and gender dynamics of welfare reform Anallstar team of the best progressive academics, advocates and other policy http://www.arc.org/welfare/fp2p.html

From Poverty to Punishment How Welfare Reform Punishes the Poor Order from GrassrootsFundraising.org $20.00: or use our Printer-Friendly Order Form (125 kb PDF file requires free HOT OFF THE PRESS! Contributions by Leading Experts on Welfare Reform Introduction Peter Edelman Welfare Policy and American Politics Frances Fox Piven From Social Contract to Social Control: Welfare Policy and Race Gary Delgado, Rebecca Gordon Jean Hardisty, Lucy A. Williams Welfare Privatization: Prospecting among the Poor Bill Berkowitz Race and State Welfare Reform Choices: A Cause for Concern Sanford F. Schram Silencing Poverty: A Study of News Coverage of Welfare Hunter Cutting, John Avalos, S. Xochitl Bervera Racism in U.S. Welfare Policy: A Human Rights Issue Linda Burnham Gwendolyn Mink Legislating Patriarchy Martha F. Davis

43. How Existing Welfare Reform Research Distorts Welfare Reality | WARP: Welfare Ad certainly answers questions about public assistance and lowwage work, but it omitsthe analysis of a Ending welfare reform as We Know It Briefing Materials. http://www.arc.org/welfare/welfareresearch.html

Ending Welfare Reform as We Know It How Existing Welfare Reform Research Distorts Welfare Reality Prepared by the Applied Research Center January 2001 Download Printer-Friendly Version (12 kb PDF file requires free Ending Welfare Reform as We Know It Briefing Materials Welfare researchers consistently fail to address the question of quality of life for welfare leavers, spending vast sums to answer irrelevant questions. 1. Are families better off with TANF? Tracking of TANF Clients: First Report of Longitudinal Study from the Center for Applied Research of Millsaps College in Jackson, MS under contract with the Mississippi Department of Human Services is an example of a study that fails to acknowledge the impoverished condition of families leaving welfare. The study’s own survey found that almost two-thirds of former welfare recipients were currently unemployed, but in its analysis of findings the report only states, "Many clients work full- or part-time after leaving TANF; however, relatively fewer clients in rural areas find full-time employment than clients in urban areas." Another study that examined economic wellbeing

44. State-Federal Relations: Analysis And Research AFI Committee Pages. Child welfare (AFI Human Services). NCSL analysis of ChildSupport Systems Penalties and Incentive reform legislation. (May 4, 1998). http://www.ncsl.org/statefed/analysis.htm

Login Here Register Now To access special member content and services legislators, legislative staff and Foundation for State Legislatures sponsors must log in. ( Clear this notice.) NCSLnet Registration Help Forgotten NCSLnet Password? State-Federal Relations December 15, 1998 Contents: Child Welfare Commerce/Communications Energy Environment ... AFI Committee Pages Child Welfare AFI Human Services NCSL analysis of Child Support Systems Penalties and Incentive Reform legislation. (May 4, 1998) Bill Analysis of P.L. 105-89 (December 8, 1997). Preliminary draft, Comparison of child welfare and adoption legislation currently in Congress: H.R. 867, The Adoption Promotion Act of 1997 and S. 511, The Safe Adoptions and Family Environments Act. (May 7, 1997). NCSL analysis of proposed Internet Tax Freedom bills (July 29, 1998) Energy Comparison of Federal Electric Utility Restructuring Proposals (April 15, 1998). Environment AFI Environment NCSL anaylsis of Superfund legislation in the 105 th Congress. (March 16, 1998). Federal Budget AFI Federal Budget and Taxation Highlights of the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Appropriations Act of 1999 (October 20, 1998)

45. New Democrats Online: New Dem Daily: Commentary & Analysis Commentary analysis, DLC New Dem Daily February 12, 2003 welfare reform ThatWorks Throughout the welfare reform reauthorization debate, New Democrats http://www.ndol.org/ndol_sub.cfm?kaid=131&subid=192

46. Welfare Reform Policy Analysis Series (The Institute) welfare reform policy analysis series. Post a Comment. EDITORIAL BOARD Nonelisted. PUBLISHER The Institute (Washington). START/END YEAR 1978 Present. http://www.getcited.org/pub/100897981

getCITED Home Search Add Content Reports ... People Faculties Institutions Edit Publication Edit Contributors Delete Publication Edit References ... Change Bookstack Welfare reform policy analysis series Post a Comment EDITORIAL BOARD: None listed PUBLISHER: The Institute (Washington) START/END YEAR: 1978 - Present PUB TYPE: Journal/Periodical/Series ( Unreviewed, item(s) per year ) ISSN: None SUBJECT(S): Public welfare; Employment stabilization; Welfare rights movement; United States DISCIPLINE: No discipline assigned LC NUMBER: None HTTP: LANGUAGE: English DISPLAY ABSTRACT: No PUB ID: Last edited on DISPLAY CONTENTS: Volume: Issue: Year (YYYY): EDITORIAL STATEMENT: STATISTICS Click on # to view Citations Entries Citations of Entries Comments Quality Interest View(er)s Quality N/A High Low Interest N/A High Low Prev Next ABOUT getCITED CONTACT US USER INFO PREFERENCES PRIVACY LOG IN Comments? Suggestions? Send them to

47. Child Welfare And Welfare Reform Research -- Kathleen Wells policymakers, specifically, the directors of agencies responsible for implementationof welfare reform in the county in 2000 and 2001. analysis of interview http://msass.cwru.edu/faculty/kwells/research.html

Child Welfare and Welfare Reform Research Kathleen Wells Back to Main Section Calendar of Events About the ... Information Child Welfare and Welfare Reform Research Kathleen Wells, Principal Investigator Kathleen Wells' Web Site Mandel School Research Projects and Centers Publications related to this research My current research has focused on how the public child welfare system in Cuyahoga County has functioned under conditions of welfare reform. The research is a collaborative project of CWRU's Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences (MSASS) and the Cuyahoga County Department of Children and Family Services (CCDCFS), the county's public child welfare agency. With funding from national and local foundations including the Annie E. Casey, Cleveland Foundation, George Gund Foundation, and the Ohio Department of Mental Health, this work began in 1998 and continues through the present time. It is comprised of four inter-locking studies. The third study examines a number of competing hypotheses as to why we found the relationships we did in study two for the first two groups that have been studied. One important finding from study two is that mothers who received cash assistance consistently had children return home at a faster rate than did children whose mothers received but lost a significant amount of this assistance after their children's placements. Hypotheses turn on the adequacy of mothers' resources in relation to their needs. The third study is based on intensive, in-home interviews with a subset of biological mothers of children in study two. Analyses of interview data are underway.

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49. Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Florida Welfare Reform: A Study Of Income Level FL InterUniversity welfare reform Collaborative, Fall 1999 in Employment Statusamong welfare Recipients, January was invaluable in the statistical analysis. http://www.academy.umd.edu/scholarship/aali/spp2000networking/florida2.htm

aali september 2000 networking meeting : racial and ethnic disparities in fl welfare reform Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Florida Welfare Reform: A Study of Income Levels for Black, Hispanic, and White Post-Welfare Recipients By Robert E. Beneckson M.S., Senior Researcher ( rbeneckson@bigfoot.com ); Marvin Dunn Ph.D,. Mentor; Anjenys Gonzalez B.S., Community Organizer; Clara Marichal M.L.A., Research Assistant. Presented in the summer of 2000 in Washington, D.C. Introduction One area of concern that has arisen with the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 is the potential for racial disparities in the implementation of the law. Around the country some researchers have begun to look into this question, but the focused work on racial disparities is still in the early stages. Susan Gooden, Ph.D. of the Center for Public Administration and Policy (CPAP) of Virginia Tech studied 223 female welfare recipients in the Culpeper region of Virginia on various dimensions of employment status and found among other things that, "In general, blacks earn less than whites, are less likely to be employed full time and are over-represented in lower paying occupations."

50. Leavers, Stayers, And Cyclers: An Analysis Of The Welfare Caseload - Summary Leavers, Stayers, and Cyclers. An analysis of the welfare Caseload. To someobservers, this trend is evidence that welfare reform has been a success. http://www.mdrc.org/Reports2002/leavers_stayers/leavers_stayers_summary.htm

Summary Full Report Publications MDRC Home November 2002 Leavers, Stayers, and Cyclers An Analysis of the Welfare Caseload Cynthia Miller Between 1994 and 1999, the welfare caseload fell by almost 50 percent. In other words, about two million fewer families were receiving welfare in 1999 than five years earlier. To some observers, this trend is evidence that welfare reform has been a success. To others, it raises a host of new questions and concerns and suggests that the 1996 law was only the first step in the process of reforming welfare. For example, how are the families who have left welfare doing? Are most of them working and earning enough to lift themselves above poverty? And who are the families who are still left on the welfare rolls? Do they face especially severe circumstances that may prevent them from going to work? Who is leaving welfare long term? What potential employment barriers do welfare leavers face, and how are they faring economically? How do their circumstances differ from those of people who stay on welfare persistently and of people who cycle on and off welfare?

51. WRREN: Policy Resources Resources include overviews on welfare reform An analysis of the Issues, welfarereform Policy analysis, Assessing the New Federalism, welfare reform Issues http://www.cyfernet.org/welfare/policy.html

Policy Resources Nonprofit organizations that provide legislative information and policy research around Welfare Reform issues (no endorsement of any group by CYFERNet is implied.) AAHS/BOHS: Association of Administrators of Human Sciences in National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, Board on Human Sciences. Includes the Welfare Reform Think Tank , University of Georgia, November 4-6, 1996 and the Welfare Reform Legislation Summary American Public Welfare Association : Founded in 1930, APWA is a nonprofit, bipartisan organization of individuals and agencies concerned with human services. Our members include all state and many territorial human service agencies, more than 1,200 local and federal agencies, and several thousand individuals who work in or otherwise have an interest in human service programs. The Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD) , established in 1995 by the Community Development Program at Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research, publishes extensive research on capacity-building community development including recent work in the welfare reform area. Center for Law and Social Policy : To address the increasing poverty of families with children, CLASP advocates for and seeks to promote: streamlined child support enforcement and a national child support assurance system; expanded access to education and training programs for teen parents and impoverished adults; and welfare and income support policies that enhance work, reduce poverty, and support family well-being.

52. Meeting The Challenge Of Welfare Reform: Workgroup Process to welfare reform. Next Steps. In the interests of communication and wanting toshare the output of this conference in a timely manner, no further analysis of http://www.cyfernet.org/welfare/workproc.html

Meeting the Challenge of Welfare Reform: Workgroup Process What follows is the summary of the thinking of 224 participants of the "Meeting the Challenge of Welfare Reform: Setting a National Research and Extension Outreach Education" conference held April 28-30, 1997 at the National 4-H Center, Chevy Chase, Maryland. Conference participants were divided into 10 work groups and focused on three topics: Family and Community Well-being Food and Nutrition ; and Child and Youth Through the leadership of two facilitators, the groups first identified extensive lists of people who had a stake in welfare reform and the well-being of children, youths, families and communities. From that beginning, they identified indicators of well-being measures of change and impact of change resulting from national and state welfare reform public policy. Agendas for Action After identifying indicators, groups generated lists of activities that comprise possible agendas for action at local, state and national levels. For reporting purposes, each of the three lists have been divided into five categories: Research Education Extension Outreach Capacity Building Public Policy The research actions form the basis for discovery of knowledge generation of original data as well as analysis and synthesis of other data. The other four categories represent the

53. HSR Services: Policy Research And Analysis the results of this analysis became the basis for a national meeting of expertsaddressing how to improve access to longterm care. welfare reform and State http://www.hsrnet.com/policy.htm

HSR provides high quality, customized analysis and technical assistance to help national, state, and local policymakers weigh their options and make more informed decisions with respect to health, nutrition, and human services policies and programs. HSR is often called upon to assess difficult but critical policy questions. For example: What are the advantages and disadvantages of alternative Medicaid managed care capitation rate-setting methods? What are the most effective ways of integrating services to meet the complex needs of children with special health care needs? How has welfare reform affected states' food stamp policies and practices? What strategies work to help safety net providers remain financially viable? Examples of HSR policy studies include: Managed Care for Children With Special Health Care Needs HSR analyzed alternative policies and systems for serving vulnerable children in managed care environments. Model service delivery and financing systems were defined and presented in a series of workshops for state policymakers seeking to adapt best practices to their own Medicaid managed care programs. Development of Capitation Rates Under Medicaid Managed Care HSR conducted a study of methods for determining capitation rates for Medicaid managed care in 15 states. Actuarial methods, contracting processes, and rate-related quality incentives were analyzed. This information assisted legislative analysts in evaluating and defining state rate-setting systems.

54. Welfare Reform: A Pollak Library Research Guide Urban Institute welfare reform links to several reports. CALIFORNIA Top of Pagewelfare reform in California Early Results From the Impact analysis (2002); http://guides.library.fullerton.edu/welfrefo/

Pollak Library Library Research Guides Special Topics - WELFARE REFORM Welfare Reform A Guide to Resources in CSUF's Pollak Library Books Web Sites California Articles: ... Title List Web Site of Special Note: Welfare Reform [state info, research, statistics] Citation Guide PDF-2 pages NAVIGATION TIP: When viewing PDF files, use Adobe's FIND feature [ BINOCULARS ICON ] to quickly locate a keyword BOOKS Top of Page To learn how to find more books, click here A Decade of Welfare Reform: What We've Learned About Child Well-Being (2002) [RAND] PDF-2 pages A Decade of Welfare Reform: What We've Learned About Welfare Usage and Economic Outcomes (2002) [RAND] PDF-2 pages Impact of Welfare Reform on Immigrant Welfare Use (2002) PDF-36 pages Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) Annual Report to Congress (scroll down to 2002 annual report) Number of Mothers on Welfare Declines [Census Bureau] (2002) Pros and Cons: Social Policy Debates of Our Time ( CATALOG RECORD REFERENCE HN59.2 .K56 2001

55. Welfare Reform In Missouri - Other Sites arrow, Federal Legislation analysis Posted by the American Public Human ServicesAssociation (http//www.aphsa.org/reform/analysis.htm). arrowBeyond welfare http://www.dss.state.mo.us/wreform/library.htm

Agency List - choose one - Director's Office Program Divisions Child Support Enf Family Services Medical Services Youth Services Support Divisions General Services Human Resources Legal Services Welfare Reform In Missouri Beyond Welfare Library State Legislation DSS Budget State Plan/Waivers Welfare Reform Coordinators Welfare Reform Coordinating Committee Federal Legislation Analysis Posted by the American Public Human Services Association (http://www.aphsa.org/reform/analysis.htm) [ back ] DSS Home Search Local DSS Offices ... MO State Homepage Missouri Department of Social Services - Jefferson City, MO 65102-1527 Privacy Policy

56. Reforming Welfare Reform | A Special Segment On Welfare Reform | A Project Of Th Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) Center for Law and Social Policy(CLASP) provides indepth analysis of the welfare reform debate. http://www.prospect.org/issue_pages/welfare/links.html

Related Links A List of Links and Resources ACORN Center for Full Employment and Price Stability (CFEPS) The Center for Full Employment and Price Stability is a non-partisan, non-profit policy institute at the University of Missouri - Kansas City dedicated to promoting research and public discussion of issues related to macroeconomic and monetary policy, especially employment and budgetary policy. Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) provides in-depth analysis of the welfare reform debate. Child Trends and the Kids Count Child Trends and the Kids Count, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, has created a database of statistics on the welfare of children across the nation. Coalition on Human Needs (CHN) Coalition on Human Needs (CHN) has created a welfare-reauthorization project for more than 100 national, state, and local advocacy groups. The Institute for Women's Policy Research Institute for Women's Policy Research features reports on women's unemployment rates and analysis of hot-button issues such as family formation, marriage promotion, and fatherhood. Journal of Poverty The journal presents a conception of poverty that is "broader and more inclusive than the traditional view" by addressing impoverishment in the context of social and political inequalities.

57. Washingtonpost.com: Welfare Links & Resources analysis of the New welfare Legislation An extensive and fairly straightforwardanalysis of the 1996 welfare reform act, from the American Public welfare http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/welfare/links.htm

WELFARE Overview Key Stories Opinion Resources Talk Special Reports On the Federal Level On the State Level From the Think Tanks On the Federal Level Administration for Children and Families The Web site for the Department of Health and Human Services office that oversees most welfare-related programs. See their welfare reform page, their chart showing the decline in welfare caseloads by state, a summary of the 1996 reform legislation, and a side by side comparison of the new law and the old law. Welfare to Work This site from the Department of Labor offers information on $1.1 billion in special grants for states and localities to help prepare welfare recipients for work and to place them in jobs. Also see The President's Welfare-to-Work Jobs Challenge Analysis of the New Welfare Legislation An extensive and fairly straightforward analysis of the 1996 welfare reform act, from the American Public Welfare Association, the National Governors’ Association and the National Conference of State Legislatures. Also see The Race to Welfare Reform: A Recent History On the State Level Welfare Reform State Links This page, from the

58. Project Vote Smart from Handsnet. welfare reform An analysis of the Issues Edited byIsabel V. Sawhill. Online from The Urban Institute. welfare and http://www.vote-smart.org/issues/WELFARE_POVERTY_HOMELESSNESS/?checking=

59. Approaches To Evaluating Welfare Reform: Lessons From Five State Demonstrations: Instead, we recommend that evaluators confine their analysis of separate welfarereform provisions to qualitative inferences obtained on theoretical grounds or http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/hsp/isp/waivers/chap6.htm

Approaches to Evaluating Welfare Reform: Lessons from Five State Demonstrations Chapter 6: Analysis Methods A major goal of a welfare reform evaluation is to analyze the reform's impacts. This analysis must take into account several issues. This chapter addresses four analytic issues for welfare reform evaluations: What efforts, if any, should be made to distinguish impacts of specific welfare policy changes? What efforts, if any, should be made to estimate entry effects arising from welfare reform? How should crossover cases be treated for analysis purposes? Should impacts be estimated for subgroups that are defined by events that occur after random assignment? If so, how? A. DISTINGUISHING IMPACTS OF SPECIFIC POLICY CHANGES State welfare reform demonstrations usually include changes in several policies. For example, in recent years, many states have combined work requirements for welfare recipients with measures (such as more generous earned income deductions and higher asset limits) to make work pay. Policymakers and evaluators may want to distinguish impacts of specific welfare policy changes. Such analyses could identify which components of a welfare reform package are most effective in achieving particular goals. The welfare reform waiver system has recognized the importance of distinguishing impacts of specific policy changes. When multiple welfare reform policies have been implemented under a single welfare reform waiver demonstration, the terms and conditions of Section 1115 welfare waivers have required the evaluator to "discuss the feasibility of evaluating the impact of individual provisions" of the total package. When multiple welfare reform policies have been implemented under separate welfare reform waiver demonstrations, the terms and conditions of Section 1115 welfare waivers have stated that "possible confounding effects from other demonstrations ...must be addressed in detail."

60. Welfare Reform Proposals Comparison Chart Comparison and analysis of the 1996 welfare reform Bill and 2002 Proposals.Provision. 1996 welfare Bill. 2002 Proposals. Work requirements. http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/prwora/chart.htm

Comparison and Analysis of the 1996 Welfare Reform Bill and 2002 Proposals Provision 1996 Welfare Bill 2002 Proposals Work requirements Required recipients to work 30 hours per week after two years of cash assistance; 10 hours could be spent engaging in job training or education activities that were directly related to employment. Single parents of children under 6 years of age were required to work only 20 hours per week, and two-parent families were required to work 35 hours per week. Administration and House Proposals Both require recipients to work 40 hours per week. Of those hours, 24 must be “direct work activity,” as specified by the state within the bounds of the federal definition (discussed in next section). The remaining 16 hours per week may be spent on substance abuse counseling or treatment, rehabilitation treatment and services, work-related education or training, or job search or job readiness assistance. Senate Proposal Maintains the requirement of 30 hours of work participation per week, but increases the priority work activities requirement from 20 hours to 24 hours. Retains the 20-hour work week for single parents of children under 6 years of age.

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