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Part I: Overview and policy recommendations. Welfare reform : an agenda for reauthorization / Ron Haskins and Rebecca M. Blank -- Part II: The bigger issues. Implementation of the Personal Responsibility Act of 1996 / Thomas L. Gais, Richard P. Nathan, Irene Lurie, and Thomas Kaplan. Work, wages, and welfare / Rebecca M. Blank and Lucie Schmidt. Effects of welfare reform on family income and poverty / Ron Haskins. Family formation / Charles Murray. The politics of welfare reform / Hugh Heclo. The politics of conservative welfare reform / Lawrence M. Mead -- |
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Part III: Specific issues and policies. Improving employment outcomes under TANF / Julie Strawn, Mark Greenberg, and Steve Savner. State sanctions and time limits / LaDonna Pavetti and Dan Bloom. Financial work incentives for low-wage workers / Charles Michalopoulos and Gordon Berlin. Work experience under welfare reform / Jason A. Turner and Thomas Main. Will TANF work for the most disadvantaged families? / Sheila R. Zedlewski and Pamela Loprest. Supporting work through Medicaid and food stamps / Robert Greenstein and Jocelyn Guyer. Welfare reform and immigration / George J. Borjas. Welfare reform and children's well-being / Greg J. Duncan and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale. |
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Part IV: Associated program reforms. Fathers, marriage, and welfare reform / Wade F. Horn and Isabel V. Sawhill. Child support in the new world of welfare / Irwin Garfinkel. Child care after welfare reform / Douglas J. Besharov with Nazanin Samari. Effects of the 1996 welfare reform changes on the SSI program / Lynn A. Karoly, Jacob Alex Klerman, and Jeanette A. Rogowski. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2001003367 |
| ISBN | 0815710100 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0815710119 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
