附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword -- Contents -- PART I: Overview and Policy Recommendations -- Welfare Reform: An Agenda for Reauthorization -- PART II: The Biggest Issues -- Implementation of the Personal Responsibility Act of 1996 -- Work, Wages, and Welfare -- Effects of Welfare Reform on Family Income and Poverty -- Family Formation -- The Politics of Welfare Reform -- The Politics of Conservative Welfare Reform -- PART III: Specific Issues and Policies -- Improving Employment Outcomes under TANF -- State Sanctions and Time Limits -- Financial Work Incentives for Low- Wage Workers.
Work Experience under Welfare Reform -- Will TANF Work for the Most Disadvantaged Families? -- Supporting Work through Medicaid and Food Stamps -- Welfare Reform and Immigration -- Welfare Reform and Children's Well- Being -- PART IV Associated Program Reforms -- Fathers, Marriage, and Welfare Reform -- Child Support in the New World of Welfare -- Child Care after Welfare Reform -- Effects of the 1996 Welfare Reform Changes on the SSI Program -- Contributors -- Index.
摘要:Congress must reauthorize the sweeping 1996 welfare reform legislation by October 1, 2002. A number of issues that were prominent in the 1995-96 battle over welfare reform are likely to resurface in the debate over reauthorization. Among those issues are the five-year time limit, provisions to reduce out-of-wedlock births, the adequacy of child care funding, problems with Medicaid and food stamp receipt by working families, and work requirements. Funding levels are also certain to be controversial. Fiscal conservatives will try to lower grant spending levels, while states will seek to maintain.
