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Musgrave, Frank W. – Journal of Education Finance, 2009
This article explores issues of persistent poverty and income inequality. The major focus is that of the alleviation of poverty. Is there a framework that delineates the roles for government, market forces and self-reliance that can effect a reduction in the level of poverty? The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Poverty, Family Income, One Parent Family
Danziger, Sheldon; Heflin, Colleen M.; Corcoran, Mary E.; Oltmans, Elizabeth; Wang, Hui-Chen – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2002
The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act requires welfare recipients to look for work and has made it more difficult for nonworking recipients to remain on the welfare rolls. In addition, the economic boom of the 1990s and changes in federal and state policies have raised the net income gain associated with moving…
Descriptors: Income, Poverty, Mothers, Welfare Recipients
Collins, Ann; Aber, J. Lawrence – 1997
The issue brief describes the research base for the National Center for Children in Poverty's (NCCP's) framework to assess welfare changes from a children's perspective and points to lessons from current and past welfare-to-work evaluations. Many changes are now implemented in welfare policies due to new legislation titled the Personal…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Health, Child Welfare, Day Care
Aratani, Yumiko; Lu, Hsien-Hen; Aber, J. Lawrence – American Journal of Evaluation, 2014
Despite the claimed success of the 1996 Welfare Reform, little research using multivariate regression has examined changes in multiple public safety-net programs. Thus, we still do not know whether public safety-net programs for the poor have shrunk or increased nationwide, along with the sharp declines in cash assistance. Using state-level data…
Descriptors: Welfare Services, Low Income Groups, Family Programs, Children
Welfare Policies Matter for Children and Youth: Lessons for TANF Reauthorization. MDRC Policy Brief.
Morris, Pamela; Gennetian, Lisa A.; Knox, Virginia – 2002
Studies of nearly a dozen welfare programs were reviewed to determine the effects of welfare policies on children and youth and to identify issues requiring consideration during reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. The following were among the key findings: (1) the school achievement of elementary school-age…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Child Welfare, Children