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Download full textGermanis, Peter; Bavier, Richard – 1986
This report provides an overview of the current welfare system. The number and size of federal public assistance programs have increased during the past 25 years, with particular growth in noncash benefit programs, which now constitute about three-quarters of all means-tested assistance. From mid-1983 to mid-1984, more than 52.5 million Americans…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Federal State Relationship
Weinberg, Daniel; Germanis, Peter – 1988
Twenty years after the War on Poverty was launched, dependency on public support remains widespread. Part 1 of this report summarizes current research concerning the following issues affecting welfare programs: (1) evaluating the economic effects of welfare; (2) dynamics of dependency; (3) welfare and work; (4) welfare and family structure; (5)…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Community Programs, Employment Programs, Family (Sociological Unit)
