Life After Welfare

Reform and the Persistence of Poverty

Autor: Laura Lein, Deanna T. Schexnayder

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: University of Texas Press

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In the decade since President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconc...

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Autor

Laura Lein, Deanna T. Schexnayder

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2007

strony

191

EAN

9780292716674

ISBN

0292716672

Enbook ID

04872752

Wydawca

University of Texas Press

Waga

397

Wymiary

152 x 229 x 11

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In the decade since President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 into law - amidst promises that it would "end welfare as we know it" - have the reforms ending entitlements and moving toward time limits and work requirements lifted Texas families once living on welfare out of poverty, or merely stricken their names from the administrative rolls? Under welfare reform, Texas has continued with low monthly payments and demanding eligibility criteria. Many families who could receive welfare in other states do not qualify in Texas, and virtually any part-time job makes a family ineligible. In Texas, most families who leave welfare remain in or near poverty, and many are likely to return to the welfare rolls in the future. This compelling work, which follows 179 families after leaving welfare, is set against a backdrop of multiple types of data and econometric modeling. The authors' multi-method approach draws on administrative data from nine programs serving low-income families and a statewide survey of families who have left welfare. Survey data on health problems, transportation needs, and child-care issues shed light on the patterns of employment and welfare use seen in the administrative data. In their lives after welfare, the families chronicled here experience poverty even when employed; a multiplicity of barriers to employment that work to exacerbate one another; and a failing safety net of basic human services as they attempt to sustain low-wage employment.

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