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An institute investigating and analysing U.S. social and economic problems and issues, including the New Federalism, welfare and welfare-to-work, Medicare, and disabilities issues.
Number of Employees 500
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2100M Street N.W
Washington, District of Columbia 20037
1 202 833 7200
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NAICS Code Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling: 541910
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Welfare Reform: Is it Working?
More than a decade after welfare was overhauled, the rolls have plummeted, yielding some successes and a cohort of working Americans who are poor In 1996, the year the welfare reform bill was signed, Roberta Price was an unemployed single mother. She was living on public assistance, Aid...
Program keeps rents stable for those going from welfare to work.(Jobs-Plus Community Revitalization Initiative for Public Housing Families)(Brief Article)
Public housing residents who leave welfare for work often see their rents rise in tandem with their higher household income; creating a potential disincentive for them to find or keep jobs, a panel of public housing experts said at an Urban Institute program last week. ...
Welfare reform and economic and housing capacity for low-income households, 1997-1999.
In 1996, many opponents of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act PRWORA anticipated that PRWORA would generate increased hardship for low-income families. (1) Six years later, in 2002, welfare caseloads and the overall poverty rate were declining (Lichter & Crowley, 2002). In testimony before...
State political culture and welfare reform.
Introduction This article addresses how the general features of state governments shaped their ability to implement welfare reform in the late 1990s. The American states recently conducted the most radical reform of welfare since the advent of Aid to Families with Dependent Children ...
Welfare reform: TANF reauthorization. (Foresight & Emerging Trends: Welfare Reform).
Congress must reauthorize funding for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families TANF by October 1, 2002. Reauthorization provides an opportunity for broader discussion of the new work-based welfare system. In reauthorizing Temporary Assistance for Needy Families TANF, Congress has to make decisions about the fiscal aspects of the program. Research...
Making It - results of welfare reform - Brief Article
Three years have passed since Congress helped President Clinton keep his promise to end welfare as we know it. In the meantime, nearly 2 million Americans have left the dole to join someone's payroll. Many Washington-based researchers are busy studying what went wrong - wrong, that is, with predictions that...
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