Welfare reform and its long-term consequences for America's poor

Leading poverty experts address the longer-term effects of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ziliak, James Patrick (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press , c2009
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245 0 0 |a Welfare reform and its long-term consequences for America's poor   |c edited by James P. Ziliak 
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300 |a xii, 372 p. :   |b ill. ;   |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a 1. What we know, what we don't know, and what we need to know about welfare reform -- 2. Welfare reform and the level and composition of income -- 3. How have expansions in the earned income tax credit affected family expenditures? -- 4. How families are doing nine years after welfare reform: 2005 evidence from the three-city study -- 5. The impact of welfare reform on leaver characteristics, employment, and recidivism -- 6. A reexamination of the impact of welfare reform on health insurance among less-skilled women -- 7. How welfare policies affect child and adolescent school performance: investigating pathways of influence with experimental data -- 8. The effects of welfare and child support policies on the incidence of marriage following a nonmarital birth -- 9. Welfare reform and health among the children of immigrants -- 10. Mismatches and unmet need: access to social services in urban and rural America 
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