Rural Dimensions
of Welfare Reform

Introductory chapter | Table of Contents

This volume presents the first comprehensive look at how welfare reforms enacted in 1996 are affecting caseloads, employemnt, earnings, and family well-being in rural areas. Included are

• Introduction: As the Dust Settles: Welfare Reform and Rural America, Leslie A. Whitener, Bruce A. Weber, and Greg Duncan

• Approaching the Limit: Early National Lessons from Welfare Reform, Sheldon Danziger
• Rural Labor Markets in an Era of Welfare Reform, Robert M. Gibbs
• Rural America in Transition: Poverty and Welfare at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, Daniel T. Lichter and Leif Jensen

• Reducing Food Stamp and Welfare Caseloads in the South: Are Rural Areas Less Likely to Succeed Than Urban Centers?, Mark Henry, Lynn Reinschmeidt, Willis Lewis, Jr., and Darren Hudson
• Seasonal Employment Dynamics and Welfare Use in Agricultural and Rural California Counties, Henry E. Brady, Mary H. Sprague, Frederic C. Gey, and Michael Wiseman
• Location and Low-Income Experience: Analyses of Program Dynamics in the Iowa Family Investment Program, Helen H. Jensen, Shao-Hsun Keng, and Steven Garasky
• Small Towns and Welfare Reform: Iowa Case Studies of Families and Communities, Cynthia Needles Fletcher, Jan L. Flora, Barbara J. Gaddis, Mary Winter, and Jacquelyn S. Litt
• Where All the Counties are Above Average: Human Service Agency Directors' Perspectives on Welfare Reform, Ann Tickamyer, Julie White, Barry Tadlock, and Debra Henderson

• The Impact of Welfare Policy on the Employment of Single Mothers Living in Rural and Urban Areas, Signe-Mary McKernan, Robert Lerman, Nancy Pindus, and Jesse Valente
• Welfare Reform in Rural Minnesota: Experimental Findings from the Minnesota Family Investment Program, Lisa A. Gennetian, Cindy Redcross, and Cynthia Miller
• Will Attainable Jobs be Available for TANF Recipients in Local Labor Markets? Evidence from Mississippi on Prospects for "Job-Skill" Matching, Frank M. Howell
• Whose Job Is It? Employers' Views on Welfare Reform, Greg Owen, Ellen Shelton, Amy Bush Stevens, Justine Nelson-Christinedaughter, Corinna Roy, and June Heineman
• The Short-Term Impacts of Welfare Reform in Persistently Poor Rural Areas, Mark Harvey, Gene F. Summers, Kathleen Pickering, and Patricia Richards

• Food Stamps in Rural America: Special Issues and Common Themes, Sheena McConnell and James Ohls
• The Decline in Food Stamp Use by Rural Low-Income Households: Less Need or Less Access?, Mark Nord

• Lessons Learned, Greg Duncan, Leslie Whitener,and Bruce Weber

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