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Download full textLawson, Leslie O.; King, Christopher T. – 1997
Researchers assembled a database of current and projected information on the following: welfare recipients; other female participants in the labor market; employment, occupational availability, and job openings; and occupational characteristics. The database was used in a multistep process to project the number of women forced to leave welfare…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections
O'Neill, Hugh; Garcia, Kathryn; Amerlynck, Virginie; Blum, Barbara – 2001
This report describes policy and program changes affecting New York's low-income families, issues related to these changes, and ways that city, state, and federal governments might further enhance the well-being of low-income families. Part 1 reviews major new policies enacted by the federal and state governments since the mid-1990s, noting how…
Descriptors: Child Support, Day Care, Economic Factors, Employment Patterns
Sullivan, Candace J.; Sugarman, Jule M. – 1996
The passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 means that, for the first time, the federal government has shifted substantial responsibility for maintaining a social safety net for the most vulnerable populations to the state governments. This guide summarizes the contents of the new law, identifies…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Day Care, Employed Parents, Employment Patterns
Danziger, Sheldon H., Ed. – 1999
This book contains 10 papers on three key questions regarding the effects of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), which ended the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program: why welfare caseloads are falling; how welfare recipients are faring; and how the states are responding to changing…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Economic Climate, Employed Women
Peck, Jamie – 2001
This book discusses the evolution of workfare policies in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Chapter 1 defines the term "workfare" and examines the concepts of transnationalizing workfare and workfarist labor regulation. Chapter 2 establishes workfare's theoretical context and explores the relationship between welfare…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Definitions, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and the Workforce. – 2002
This Congressional report contains the testimony and documents presented for the record at the second of two hearings on the effects of welfare reform and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant. Other areas receiving particular attention from witnesses included the impacts of education and training on employment patterns…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Block Grants, Economics, Education Work Relationship
