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.
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New York :
Cambridge University Press ,
c2009
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Table of Contents:
- 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