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Download full textDanziger, Sheldon – 2001
This paper argues that the U.S.'s experience during the economic boom of the 1990s, together with its choices concerning social welfare policies, imply that child poverty in the United States will be much higher than that in most European countries. It hypothesizes that Americans reveal their preferences about the extent of poverty they are…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Children, Family Income, Foreign Countries
Lichter, Daniel T.; Jensen, Leif – 2000
This paper documents changing rates of poverty, sources of income, and employment among rural female-headed families with children, focusing on the effects of welfare reform. Data from the Current Population Survey show that from 1989 through 1999, especially since passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Fatherless Family, Feminization of Poverty
Zargari, Ahmad – 1996
As welfare programs have grown more costly, it has become obvious that they merely treat the symptom, poverty, instead of the problem, unemployment. Jobs increasingly require higher levels of skills and better educated workers. Since the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 has ended the federal guarantee of…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Education Work Relationship
Weber, Bruce A., Ed.; Duncan, Greg J., Ed.; Whitener, Leslie A., Ed. – 2002
The 16 chapters in this five-part book, each by different authors, trace the effects of welfare reform (mandated by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996), upon poor people in rural areas of the United States. The book begins with an introduction called "As the Dust Settles: Welfare Reform and Rural…
Descriptors: Adults, Compliance (Legal), Economic Impact, Employer Attitudes
Garfinkel, Irwin; Heintze, Theresa; Huang, Chien-Chung – 2001
Public enforcement of private child support obligations transfers income from nonresident parents to resident parents (mostly mothers) or, if the mother is receiving welfare, to the state. This paper reviews and synthesizes existing literature on the effects of this transfer of income and presents new empirical evidence on the effects of stronger…
Descriptors: Child Support, Child Welfare, Employment Patterns, Family Income
Adolescents' School Enrollment and Employment: Effect of State Welfare Policies. JCPR Working Paper.
Hao, Lingxin; Astone, Nan M.; Cherlin, Andrew J. – 2001
This study hypothesizes that stringent welfare policies may promote school enrollment and reduce employment among adolescents from low-income, single parent, and welfare families. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 cohort, combined with state-level data sources, this analysis uses a dynamic model to study school and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Disadvantaged Youth, Job Skills, Low Income Groups
