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Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2007
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Organization(s): ASPE |
The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prepare an annual report to Congress on indicators welfare dependence. The Indicators of Welfare Dependence report is prepared within the Office of Human Services Policy and delivered to Congress each spring. As mandated under the Congressional act, the report addresses the rate of welfare dependency, the degree and duration of welfare recipiency and dependence, and predictors of welfare dependence. Further, analyses of means-tested assistance in the report include benefits under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program; the Food Stamp Program, and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. The report also includes risk factors related to economic security, employment, and nonmarital births, as well an appendix with data related to the above programs. |
Published: July, 2007 |
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Green Book
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Background Material and Data on Programs within the Jurisdicition of the Committee on Ways and Means |
Author(s): Committee on Ways and Means |
Organization(s): Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives |
The Green Book is compiled by the staff of the Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives from many sources and provides program descriptions and historical data on a wide variety of social and economic topics, including Social Security, employment, earnings, welfare, child support, health insurance, the elderly, families with children, poverty, and taxation. It has become a standard reference work for those interested in the direction of social policy in the United States. This web site contains links to editions available electronically. |
Published: June, 2003 |
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Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2006
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Organization(s): ASPE |
The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prepare an annual report to Congress on indicators welfare dependence. The Indicators of Welfare Dependence report is prepared within the Office of Human Services Policy and delivered to Congress each spring. As mandated under the Congressional act, the report addresses the rate of welfare dependency, the degree and duration of welfare recipiency and dependence, and predictors of welfare dependence. Further, analyses of means-tested assistance in the report include benefits under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program; the Food Stamp Program, and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. The report also includes risk factors related to economic security, employment, and non-marital births, as well an appendix with data related to the above programs. |
Published: August, 2006 |
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Impacts of a Mandatory Welfare-to-Work Program on Children at School Entry and Beyond
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Findings from the NEWWS Child Outcomes Study |
Author(s): Sharon M. McGroder, Martha J. Zaslow, Kristin A. Moore, and Jennifer L. Brooks |
Organization(s): Child Trends |
This brief presents findings from the Child Outcomes Study, a substudy of the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies (NEWWS), which examined the impacts of 11 JOBS programs in seven sites across the country. In three of these sites, the Child Outcomes Study looked at the long-term impacts of two alternative pre-employment strategies employment-focused and education-focused on children ages 3 to 5 at the start of the study. It sought to determine whether one approach was more or less beneficial than the other for children's development. Three general areas of child development were studied — cognitive development and academic functioning, social skills and behavior, and health and safety. |
Published: July, 2004 |
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Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States:
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Organization(s): The Lewin Group and the Rockefeller Institute |
This project, which resulted in both a key highlights issue brief and a full report, examines how a state's ability to fund social welfare programs affects its state spending choices on programs to support low-income populations. The project includes a two-part study of state spending on social services. The first part uses existing data sources to build a multi-variate, fifty-state model to examine social welfare spending choices made by states at different points in time. In the second part of the study, additional information is gathered through site visits to a half-dozen of the poorest states to develop a more detailed analysis of the spending decisions relating to social welfare programs. |
Published: June, 2004 |
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Profile of Families Cycling on and off Welfare
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Author(s): Lashawn Richburg-Hayes and Stephen Freedman |
Organization(s): MDRC |
The report analyzes the experiences of welfare "cyclers" (those who received welfare benefits during three or more discrete spells during a four-year observation period) using five MDRC studies of welfare reform initiatives during the mid- to late-1990s. Overall, cyclers constituted a relatively small portion of the welfare caseload (9 percent). Cyclers generally fared better than long-term recipients, but not as well as short-term recipients. The report also found that the incidence of cycling increased during the years following PRWORA. |
Published: April, 2004 |
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Using MSIS Data to Analyze Medicaid Eligibility and Managed Care Enrollment Patterns in 1999
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Author(s): Marilyn Ellwood and Megan Kell |
Organization(s): Mathematica Policy Research |
In this report, the new MSIS enrollment data are utilized to provide detailed information on Medicaid eligibility patterns and managed care participation in calendar year 1999. A series of 14 tables were constructed for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, and then summarized at the national level. A separate File Listing gives the user the ability to go directly to the section or set of tables they are interested in. The data show that Medicaid eligibility and managed care enrollment vary dramatically across states. For example, Tennessee, for example, enrolled its entire Medicaid population in HMOs, while Alaska, Louisiana and Wyoming did not use any type of managed care for Medicaid enrollees in 1999. Overall, about 35 percent were enrolled in comprehensive managed care organizations (HMOs), and another 11 percent were enrolled in primary care case management (PCCM) plans. An additional 9 percent were enrolled in other types of prepaid health plans, such as behavioral health plans (BHPs) or dental plans, bringing the total enrollment in any kind of managed care plan to 55 percent. In terms of eligibility groups, about 69 percent of AFDC children (Section 1931) and 65 percent of AFDC adults (Section 1931) were either in an HMO or a PCCM, whereas only 33 percent of SSI disabled persons and 16 percent of SSI aged persons received care in that form. [2,042 PDF pages] |
Published: February, 2003 |
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Archive of AFDC data
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Author(s): States and ACF |
Organization(s): Urban Institute |
This archive contains virtually all the available micro data on the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. The archive contains all the person and family level information from the AFDC Characteristics Files from 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1977, and 1979, plus all the AFDC Quality Control Data from 1983 through 1997. The raw data, corresponding codebooks, commands to create SAS datasets, and other supporting files are available for downloading at the web site hosted at the Urban Institute. The Characteristics Files are from surveys of AFDC recipients conducted every two years, while the Quality Control (QC) data are annual and were collected by the states. Both types of data were large samples. Also at the web site, you can use the crosstab tool to do quick tabulations of the 1997 data without downloading the raw data or creating a dataset. |
Published: January, 2003 |
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Moving People from Welfare to Work:
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Lessons from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies |
Author(s): Gayle Hamilton |
Organization(s): MDRC and Child Trends |
This report lays out the lessons learned from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies (NEWWS). NEWWS examined the long-term effects on welfare recipients and their children of 11 mandatory welfare-to-work programs, operated in seven sites, that took different approaches to helping welfare recipients find jobs, advance in the labor market, and leave public assistance. A central question of the evaluation was: What program strategies work best, and for whom? Under study were two primary preemployment approaches one that emphasized short-term job search assistance and encouraged people to find jobs quickly and one that emphasized longer-term skill-building activities (primarily basic education) before entering the labor market and a third approach that mixed elements of the other two. The strategiesÂ’ success was measured with respect to the goals and combinations of goals that policymakers and program operators have set for welfare-to-work programs, which include cutting the welfare rolls, increasing employment, reducing poverty, not worsening (or, better still, improving) the well-being of children, and saving government money. The study examined the programs effects on single-parent welfare recipients, who account for the vast majority of the national welfare caseload, as well as on different subgroups thereof for example, those considered to be most disadvantaged with respect to their likelihood of finding steady employment. |
Published: July, 2002 |
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How Effective Are Different Welfare-to-Work Approaches? Five-Year Adult and Child Impacts for Eleven Programs
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NEWWS final report |
Author(s): Gayle Hamilton, Stephen Freedman, Lisa Gennetian, Charles Michalopoulos, Johanna Walter, Diana Adams-Ciardullo, and Anna Gassman-Pines, Sharon McGroder, Martha Zaslow, Jennifer Brooks, and Surjeet Ahluwalia, Electra Small and Bryan Ricchetti |
Organization(s): MDRC and Child Trends |
This is the final report from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies (NEWWS). The NEWWS evaluation was a random assignment study of the effectiveness of eleven mandatory welfare-to-work programs in seven locales: Atlanta, Georgia; Columbus, Ohio; Detroit and Grand Rapids, Michigan; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Portland, Oregon; and Riverside, California. Program impacts were evaluated by comparing outcomes for a randomly assigned experimental group subject to program requirements with outcomes for control groups. The effects of two approaches to preparing welfare recipients for employment were compared in three sites (Atlanta, Grand Rapids, and Riverside). In one approach, the human capital development approach, individuals were directed to avail themselves of education services and, to a lesser extent, occupational training before they sought work, under the theory that they would then be able to get better jobs and keep them longer. In the other approach, the labor force attachment approach, individuals were encouraged to gain quick entry into the labor market, even at low wages, under the theory that their work habits and skills would improve on the job and they would thereby be able to advance themselves. In addition, effects on the well-being of the children of the mothers in the study was evaluated. |
Published: December, 2001 |
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