The new world of welfare [[electronic resource] /] / Rebecca M. Blank, Ron Haskins, editors

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (528 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.5/8/0973
• Soggetto topico: Public welfare - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Social policy; United States Economic policy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BlankRebecca M HaskinsRon
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: 1 Welfare Reform: An Agenda for Reauthorization -- Ron Haskins and Rebecca M. Blank -- Part II: The Biggest Issues -- 2 Implementation of the Personal Responsibility -- Act of 1996 -- Thomas L. Gais, Richard P? Nathan, Irene Lurie, -- and Thomas Kaplan -- Comment: Susan Golonka -- Work, Wages, and Welfare -- Rebecca M. Blank and Lucie Schmidt -- Comment: Robert Topel -- Effects of Welfare Reform on Family Income -- and Poverty -- Ron Haskins -- Comment: Wendell Primus -- 5 Family Formation / 13 -- Charles Murray -- Comment: Rebecca A. Maynard -- 6 The Politics of Welfare Reform 1 -- Hugh Heclo -- 7 The Politics of Conservative Welfare Reform 2 -- Lawrence M. Mead -- Part III: Specific Issues and Policies -- 8 Improving Employment Outcomes under TANF -- Julie Strawn, Mark Greenberg, and Steve Savner -- Comment: Eloise Anderson -- 9 State Sanctions and Time Limits -- LaDonna Pavetti and Dan Bloom -- Comment: Robert Rector -- 10 Financial Work Incentives for Low-Wage Workers -- Charles Michalopoulos and Gordon Berlin -- Comment: Glenn C. Loury -- 11 Work Experience under Welfare Reform -- Jason A. Turner and Thomas Main -- Comment: Clifford M. Johnson -- 12 Will TANF Work for the Most Disadvantaged Families? -- Sheila R Zedlewski and Pamela Loprest -- Comment: Sheldon Danziger -- 13 Supporting Work through Medicaid and Food Stamps -- Robert Greenstein andJocelyn Guyer -- Comment: Don Winstead -- Comment: Gary Stangler -- Welfare Reform and Immigration -- George Borjas -- Comment: Michael Fix -- 15 Welfare Reform and Children's Well-Being -- GregJ. Duncan and P Lindsay Chase-Lansdale -- Comment: C. Eugene Steuerle -- Part IV Associated Program Reforms -- 16 Fathers, Marriage, and Welfare Reform -- Wade E Horn and Isabel V Sawhill -- Comment: Ronald B. Mincy -- 17 Child Support in the New World of Welfare -- Irwin Garfinkel -- Comment: Robert I. Lerman -- 18 Child Care after Welfare Reform -- Douglas J. Besharov with Nazanin Samari -- Comment: Kristin Anderson Moore, Martha Zaslow, -- Sharon McGroder, and Kathryn Tout -- 19 Effects of the 1996 Welfare Reform Changes -- on the SSI Program -- Lynn A. Karoly, Jacob Alex Klerman, andJeannette A. Rogowski -- Comment: Matt Weidinger -- Contributors -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Congress must reauthorize the sweeping 1996 welfare reform legislation by October 1, 2002. A number of issues that were prominent in the 1995-96 battle over welfare reform are likely to resurface in the debate over reauthorization. Among those issues are the five-year time limit, provisions to reduce out-of-wedlock births, the adequacy of child care funding, problems with Medicaid and food stamp receipt by working families, and work requirements. Funding levels are also certain to be controversial. Fiscal conservatives will try to lower grant spending levels, while states will seek to maintain
• Titolo autorizzato: The new world of welfare
• ISBN: 0-8157-9837-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455836603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II