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Welfare Reform

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Key Organizations

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Family Resources

When You Work Curriculum resources to order from the University of Wisconsin - Extension.

Community Strategies for Helping Families Become Self Sufficient North Carolina State University Cooperative Extension

Research

Snapshots of America's Families ~ The Urban Institute
Who are Fragile Families and What Do We Know About Them? ~ CLASP

The Research Forum Sponsored by Columbia University's School of Public Health and the National Center for Children in Poverty
- Children in Low-Income Families Fare Better with Work Supports

Consequences of Welfare Reform:
A Research Synthesis ~ Rand Corporation for the Department of HHS
Children and Welfare Reform ~ The Packard Foundation
- A Synopsis
How Are Children Affected By Employment And Welfare Transitions? Joint Center for Poverty Research
Analysis of TANF and MOE Spending by States ~ Center for Law and Public Policy
How Effective Are Different Welfare-to-Work Approaches?
Five-Year Adult and Child Impacts for Eleven Programs ~ US Departments of Education and Health & Human Services
Four Evaluations of Welfare Reform: What Will Be Learned? ~ Peter Rossi, Maryland School of Public Affairs
How Effective are Different Welfare to Work Programs? Five-Year Adult and Child Impacts for Eleven Programs ~ US Department of Health & Human Services and Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation

From Child Trends

TANF Reauthorization 2003: Lessons from Block Grants
From Welfare to Work: What the Evidence Shows ~ The Brookings Institution
Making Welfare to Work Really Work ~ The American Psychological Association

Strengthening and Promoting the Formation of Strong Families ~ Mathematica Policy Research
Fragile Families and Child Well-Being ~ An ongoing Princeton University study addressing (1) nonmarital childbearing, (2) welfare reform, and (3) the role of fathers.
Joint Center for Poverty Research
- Job Performance and Retention among Welfare Recipients
- What Will States Do When Jobs Are Not Plentiful?
Study Debunks Stereotype about Welfare to Work Recipients ~ Journal of Marriage and the Family
Welfare, Children & Families This four-year Johns Hopkins University study is focusing on the experiences of low income families with welfare reform.

TANF and the Status of Teen Mothers under Age 18 ~ The Urban Institute
Rural Welfare to Work Strategies ~ An Evaluation by Mathematica

Assessing the New Federalism ~ Urban Institute
Fragile Families, Welfare Reform and Marriage ~ Sara McLanahan, Irwin Garfinkel and Ronald B. Mincy

Child Care in an Era of Welfare Reform ~ Northwestern University, Johns Hopkins University:
Promoting Resilience: Helping Young Children and Parents Affected by Substance Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Depression in the Context of Welfare Reform National Center for Children in Poverty
Knocking on the Door: Barriers to Welfare and Other Assistance for Teen Parents ~ Center for Impact Research
Employed by Not Insured: A State-by-State Analysis of the Number of Low-Income Working Parents Who Lack Health Insurance ~ Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The Decline of Food Stamp Participation in the 1990's ~ USDA
Public Assistance Receipt among Native-Born Children of Immigrant s ~ Andrew Cherlin and Paula Fomby, Johns Hopkins University; Ronald Angel, University of Texas at Austin; and Jane Henrici, University of Memphis

Early Impacts of Delaware's A Better Chance (ABC) Program
Welfare Reform ~ Michigan State University Best Practices Briefs
- Moving from Welfare to Work: Results, Barriers and Transitional Benefits

Struggling to Stay in School: Obstacles to Post-secndary Education Under the Welfare-to-Work Regime in Michigan ~ The Center for the Education of Women, University of Michigan
What Has Welfare Reform Accomplished? ~ The National Bureau of Economic Research

Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation
The Impact of Welfare Sanctions on the Health of Infants and Toddlers ~ Children's Sentinel Nutrition Assessment Program

Key Agencies

Web for Searching U.S. Government
Brookings Institutution
- Welfare Reform and Beyond
- Why Cities Matter to Welfare Reform
Child Trends Check out their many reports, including "Parents Health and Implications for Children," "The Effects of Welfare Reform on Children."
Let them eat wedding rings: the role of marriage in welfare reform ~ Alternative to Marriage Project
From the United States General Accounting Office
- Summary of TANF Rules Released in June, 1999.
- Assessing the Effectiveness of Various Welfare-to-Work Approaches

The Urban Institute provides numerous reports relating to welfare reform, including:
- State TANF Income Calculator
- How Well Can Urban Labor Markets Absorb Welfare Recipients? This report focuses on 20 metropolitan areas, and projects decreases in unemployment, even with welfare recipients' entry into the labor market.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Federal Welfare Policies
- 50-State comparison tables and state-by-state TANF eligibility rules, plus progress in delinking TANF and Medicaid eligibility.
- Average Incomes of Very Poor Families Fell During Early Years of Welfare Reform
- Welfare Balances in the States -- unspent TANF Funds
- Welfare Reform and Single Mother Families Increases in single mothers' incomes aren't keeping pace with losses in benefits (food stamps and welfare assistance), according to this report.

State Child Welfare Spending at a Glance (download from the Urban Institute site)
Community Work Experience and Publicly Funded Jobs -- Helping the Hard to Serve Meet Work Requirements.
- Moving from Welfare-to-Work: An Overview of Work Participation Issues

Advocacy Groups

Advocacy and Research: A Reciprocal Relationship ~ Research Forum on Children, Families and the New Federalism

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