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Author | : Andrew R. Feldman |
Publisher | : W.E. Upjohn Institute |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0880993758 |
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This book is a case study of how New York City's welfare-to-work programs were managed and implemented in the mid 2000s. New York City's welfare system is unique in many ways, so the results may or may not be generalizable to other cities. Even so, the case study is intended to be a rich source for the generation of hypotheses and a compelling and interesting story in itself.
Author | : Jeff GROGGER |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0674037960 |
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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.
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Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Public welfare |
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Download Building an Employment Focused Welfare System Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Gabriel J. Loiacono |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2021-04-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0197515452 |
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What was American welfare like in George Washington's day? It was expensive, extensive, and run by local governments. Known as "poor relief," it included what we would now call welfare and social work. Unlike other aspects of government, poor relief remained consistent in structure between the establishment of the British colonies in the 1600s and the New Deal of the 1930s. In this book, Gabriel J. Loiacono follows the lives of five people in Rhode Island between the Revolutionary War and 1850: a long-serving overseer of the poor, a Continental Army veteran who was repeatedly banished from town, a nurse who was paid by the government to care for the poor, an unwed mother who cared for the elderly, and a paralyzed young man who attempted to become a Christian missionary from inside of a poorhouse. Of Native, African, and English descent, these five Rhode Islanders utilized poor relief in various ways. Tracing their involvement with these programs, Loiacono explains the importance of welfare through the first few generations of United States history. In Washington's day, poor relief was both generous and controlling. Two centuries ago, Americans paid for--and many relied on--an astonishing governmental system that provided food, housing, and medical care to those in need. This poor relief system also shaped American households and dictated where Americans could live and work. Recent generations have assumed that welfare is a new development in the United States. This book shows how old welfare is in the United States of America through five little-known, but compelling, life stories.
Author | : Kristin S. Seefeldt |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Public welfare |
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Download Working After Welfare Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Andrew Ross Feldman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Public welfare |
ISBN | : 9780549035688 |
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Catalyzed by welfare reform legislation in 1996, welfare systems across the nation shifted to a "work first" approach aimed at moving recipients quickly into unsubsidized employment. This dissertation examines why some work-first employment programs are more successful than others at helping welfare recipients get and keep jobs. It focuses on New York City's welfare system, the largest urban system in the United States.
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Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Government publications |
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Author | : Judith M. Gueron |
Publisher | : Russell Sage Foundation |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 1991-08-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 161044258X |
Download From Welfare to Work Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From Welfare to Work appears at a critical moment, when all fifty states are wrestling with tough budgetary and program choices as they implement the new federal welfare reforms. This book is a definitive analysis of the landmark social research that has directly informed those choices: the rigorous evaluation of programs designed to help welfare recipients become employed and self-sufficient. It discusses forty-five past and current studies, focusing on the series of seminal evaluations conducted by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation over the last fifteen years. Which of these welfare-to-work programs have worked? For whom and at what cost? In answering these key questions, the authors clearly delineate the trade-offs facing policymakers as they strive to achieve the multiple goals of alleviating poverty, helping the most disadvantaged, curtailing dependence, and effecting welfare savings. The authors present compelling evidence that the generally low-cost, primarily job search-oriented programs of the late 1980s achieved sustained earnings gains and welfare savings. However, getting people out of poverty and helping those who are most disadvantaged may require some intensive, higher-cost services such as education and training. The authors explore a range of studies now in progress that will address these and other urgent issues. They also point to encouraging results from programs that were operating in San Diego and Baltimore, which suggest the potential value of a mixed strategy: combining job search and other low-cost activities for a broad portion of the caseload with more specialized services for smaller groups. Offering both an authoritative synthesis of work already done and recommendations for future innovation, From Welfare to Work will be the standard resource and required reading for practitioners and students in the social policy, social welfare, and academic communities.
Author | : Kerry C. Woodward |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 2009 |
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Download Beyond "Work First": an Empowering Approach to Welfare Programs Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Robert M. Solow |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2009-10-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1400822645 |
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The Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow directs his attention here to one of today's most controversial social issues: how to get people off welfare and into jobs. With characteristic eloquence, wit, and rigor, Solow condemns the welfare reforms recently passed by Congress and President Clinton for confronting welfare recipients with an unworkable choice--finding work in the current labor market or losing benefits. He argues that the only practical and fair way to move recipients to work is, in contrast, through an ambitious plan to guarantee that every able-bodied citizen has access to a job. Solow contends that the demand implicit in the 1996 Welfare Reform Act for welfare recipients to find work in the existing labor market has two crucial flaws. First, the labor market would not easily make room for a huge influx of unskilled, inexperienced workers. Second, the normal market adjustment to that influx would drive down earnings for those already in low-wage jobs. Solow concludes that it is legitimate to want welfare recipients to work, but not to want them to live at a miserable standard or to benefit at the expense of the working poor, especially since children are often the first to suffer. Instead, he writes, we should create new demand for unskilled labor through public-service employment and incentives to the private sector--in effect, fair "workfare." Solow presents widely ignored evidence that recipients themselves would welcome the chance to work. But he also points out that practical, morally defensible workfare would be extremely expensive--a problem that politicians who support the idea blithely fail to admit. Throughout, Solow places debate over welfare reform in the context of a struggle to balance competing social values, in particular self-reliance and altruism. The book originated in Solow's 1997 Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Princeton University. It includes reactions from the distinguished scholars Gertrude Himmelfarb, Anthony Lewis, Glenn Loury, and John Roemer, who expand on and take issue with Solow's arguments. Work and Welfare is a powerful contribution to debate about welfare reform and a penetrating look at the values that shape its course.