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Trzcinski, Eileen; Brandell, Jerry – 2002
This study investigated the potential effects of welfare reform on children in late childhood through adolescence, examining how poverty status and family welfare receipt interacted with current poverty status and welfare receipt during adolescence to influence various outcomes. The study examined how 1998 outcomes varied for adolescents based on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Children
Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC. – 2003
This sixth annual report provides welfare dependence indicators through 2000, reflecting changes since enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act in 1996 and highlighting benefits under Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), now Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); the Food Stamp program; and Supplement…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Support, Children, Disabilities
Lawson, Leslie O.; King, Christopher T. – 1997
Researchers assembled a database of current and projected information on the following: welfare recipients; other female participants in the labor market; employment, occupational availability, and job openings; and occupational characteristics. The database was used in a multistep process to project the number of women forced to leave welfare…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections