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From:Social Justice (Vol. 28, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 24, Issue 2)"Inequality and Unemployment in Europe: The American Cure" by James K. Galbraith, Pedro Conceicao and Pedro Ferriera, in New Left Review (Sept-Oct. 1999), 6 Meard St., London WIV 3HR, England. Most economists blame...
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From:Management Review (Vol. 84, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAmerican businesses are interested in the potential for cheap labor which would be available if the US were to institute a workfare program. Many fear, however, that the costs of training these new employees would be too...
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From:Policy & Practice (Vol. 69, Issue 2)SAYREVILLE, N.J. -- Borough officials are instituting a program to help people in need of temporary work assistance. Public assistance recipients are required to actively seek employment. Engaging in community work...
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From:Policy & Practice of Public Human Services (Vol. 56, Issue 2)States' New TANF Policies: Is the Emphasis on Carrots or Sticks? The federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program imposes strict employment targets for states' cash assistance caseloads. States...
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From:Policy & Practice of Public Human Services (Vol. 58, Issue 3)As the summer 2002 deadline approaches for the first round of people hitting the five-year time limit, policymakers are beginning to debate the content of TANF reauthorization. Yet, concern about hard-to-employ clients,...
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From:Public Administration Review (Vol. 61, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOn March 8, 1997, President Clinton announced the federal government's Welfare-to-Work Initiative, a major effort to provide job opportunities for welfare recipients in federal agencies. Using data from the U.S. Office...
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From:Publius (Vol. 28, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDoes welfare reform provide "A Better Chance" (ABC) for Delaware's welfare recipients? Not in terms of meeting the program's objectives. The employment and earnings impacts are modest. ABC had relatively little impact on...
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From:Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy (Vol. 13)The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity and Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 (1) radically reshaped the landscape of welfare for women. (2) The changes transformed a program designed to meet the material...
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From:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 28, Issue 5)INTRODUCTION The Welfare State of the mid-twentieth century has been supplanted by the rise of the Contractual State, miring welfare reform in the United States in this worldwide reinvention of government. Moving...
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From:Black Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 19, Issue 9)A new House-passed welfare reform bill is drawing criticism from African American and Hispanic lawmakers who claim the plan would make it difficult for low-income public aid recipients to get the education needed to...
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From:Southern Economic Journal (Vol. 76, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWhat lessons do we learn from optimal tax theory for the design of income redistribution programs? I modify a standard model of optimal nonlinear income taxation with discrete types to consider differences in both...
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From:Family Matters (Issue 84)Many single-parent households in Australia rely heavily on both social security payments and child support. From 1 July 2006 to 1 July 2008, sweeping reforms saw significant changes to the income support eligibility...
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From:Albany Law Review (Vol. 64, Issue 3)2001 EDWARD C. SOBOTA MEMORIAL LECTURE(*) Introduction by Martha Davis(***) It is a great privilege to introduce Peter Edelman as the Sobota lecturer today. I have known Peter personally for a number of years...
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From:Canadian Review of Sociology (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn this paper, I trace how the reform of social assistance in Ontario, especially the post-1990s enforcement of lone mothers' employability via welfare-to-work programs, parallels shifts in dominant moral codes of...
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From:Australian Journal of Social Issues (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed1 Introduction The nature and extent of economic and social participation have received increased attention in recent discussion of welfare reform. Active encouragement of participation is a key theme addressed by...
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From:The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCet article veut en premier demontrer comment l'interpretation feministe des besoins des femmes dans le contexte du travail obligatoire repose sur plusieurs interrelations au sein des groupes communautaires, puis que...
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From:Gender & Society (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMandatory workfare has been the centerpiece of welfare reform in this decade. In 1992-94, there was a pitched legislative battle over mandatory workfare in Vermont. Feminist organizations mobilized to oppose the...
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From:Publius (Vol. 28, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article discusses implications of data on the income and employment patterns of welfare recipients for the types of programmatic and financial investments that states will need to make for successful welfare reform....
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From:Southern Economic Journal (Vol. 67, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedJulia Lane [*] David Stevens [+] This paper sets out to explore the role of the employer in successful welfare-to-work transitions. We demonstrate the uses of administrative records in identifying the types of...