Welfare Reform

Welfare Reform
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 9780674037960
ISBN-13 : 0674037960
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Welfare Reform by : Jeff GROGGER

In Welfare Reform, Jeffrey Grogger and Lynn Karoly assemble evidence from numerous studies to assess how welfare reform has affected behavior. To broaden our understanding of this wide-ranging policy reform, the authors evaluate the evidence in relation to an economic model of behavior.

Work, Education, and Training Opportunities for Welfare Recipients

Work, Education, and Training Opportunities for Welfare Recipients
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 562
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015032133152
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Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Work, Education, and Training Opportunities for Welfare Recipients by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation

When Work Disappears

When Work Disappears
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9780307794697
ISBN-13 : 0307794695
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis When Work Disappears by : William Julius Wilson

Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal stories of hundreds of men and women, Wilson persuasively argues that problems endemic to America's inner cities--from fatherless households to drugs and violent crime--stem directly from the disappearance of blue-collar jobs in the wake of a globalized economy. Wilson's achievement is to portray this crisis as one that affects all Americans, and to propose solutions whose benefits would be felt across our society. At a time when welfare is ending and our country's racial dialectic is more strained than ever, When Work Disappears is a sane, courageous, and desperately important work. "Wilson is the keenest liberal analyst of the most perplexing of all American problems...[This book is] more ambitious and more accessible than anything he has done before." --The New Yorker

Low-wage Workers in the New Economy

Low-wage Workers in the New Economy
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Publisher : The Urban Insitute
Total Pages : 404
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ISBN-10 : 0877667055
ISBN-13 : 9780877667056
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Low-wage Workers in the New Economy by : Richard Kazis

This book describes the challenges facing the country's working poor, drawing lessons from practice and policy to recommend approaches for helping low-wage workers advance to better-paying jobs. Part I overviews the low-wage workforce and the employers who hire them, and Part II summarizes the evidence on strategies to improve workers' skills, supplement their wages, and provide greater support. Part III focuses on challenges encountered by groups such as women and immigrants, and Part IV assesses the potential contributions of community colleges, employers, and unions. Much of this material originated at a May 2000 conference held in Washington, DC. The editors are affiliated with Jobs for the Future. c. Book News Inc.

Bringing the Jobless into Work?

Bringing the Jobless into Work?
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 481
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ISBN-10 : 9783540774358
ISBN-13 : 3540774351
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Bringing the Jobless into Work? by : Werner Eichhorst

This volume provides an up-to-date overview of activation strategies in unemployment benefit systems and social assistance in selected European countries and the United States. A particular focus lies on the development of activation schemes, governance and implementation as well as on the outcomes of activation in terms of labor market and social integration. The volume is the first to address these issues both from a socio-economic and a legal perspective.

The Work Incentive (WIN) Program and Related Experiences

The Work Incentive (WIN) Program and Related Experiences
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 56
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ISBN-10 : UCR:31210024941120
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Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis The Work Incentive (WIN) Program and Related Experiences by : Leonard Goodwin

Report reviewing research results on psychological and social implications of work incentive welfare programmes (win) in the USA - considers problems of employment opportunity for welfare recipients (incl. Unemployed, low income families), training facilities, Motivation in welfare dependence, ethics factors, and discusses social policy alternatives. Bibliography pp. 39 to 46, flow charts and references.

Welfare Reform and Beyond

Welfare Reform and Beyond
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 0815798822
ISBN-13 : 9780815798828
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Welfare Reform and Beyond by : Isabel V. Sawhill

The Brookings Institution's Welfare Reform & Beyond Initiative was created to inform the critical policy debates surrounding the upcoming congressional reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and a number of related programs that were created or dramatically altered by the 1996 landmark welfare reform legislation. The goal of the project has been to take the large volume of existing and forthcoming research studies and shape them into a more coherent and policy-oriented whole. This capstone collection gathers twenty brief essays (published between January 2001 and February 2002) that focus on assessing the record of welfare reform, specific issues likely to be debated before the TANF reauthorization, and a broader set of policy options for low-income families. It is a reader-friendly volume that will provide policymakers, the press, and the interested public with a comprehensive guide to the numerous issues that must be addressed as Congress considers the future of the nation's antipoverty policies. The collection covers the following topics and features a new introduction from the editors: - An Overview of Effects to Date - Welfare Reform Reauthorization: An Overview of Problems and Issues - A Tax Proposal for Working Families with Children - Welfare Reform and Poverty - Reducing Non-Marital Births - Which Welfare Reforms are Best for Children? - Welfare and the Economy - What Can Be Done to Reduce Teen Pregnancy and Out-of-Wedlock Births? - Changing Welfare Offices - State Programs - Welfare Reform and Employment - Fragile Families, Welfare Reform, and Marriage - Health Insurance, Welfare, and Work - Helping the Hard-to-Employ - Sanctions and Welfare Reform - Child Care and Welfare Reform - Job Retention and Advancement in Welfare Reform - Housing and Welfare Reform - Non-Citizens - Block Grant Structure - Food Stamps - Work Support System - Possible Welfare Re

Work and Welfare

Work and Welfare
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 180
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ISBN-10 : UIUC:30112033961829
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Work and Welfare by : United States. General Accounting Office

Work Experience Perspectives

Work Experience Perspectives
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 48
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015087584770
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Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Work Experience Perspectives by : United States. Employment and Training Administration