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Partners for Fragile Families Demonstration Projects: Employment and Child Support Outcomes and Trends (Research Report)Author(s): Karin Martinson,
Demetra Smith Nightingale,
Pamela A. Holcomb,
Burt S. Barnow,
John TrutkoThe Partnership for Fragile Families Demonstration projects, operating in 13 sites across the country, provided a range of services aimed at increasing the capacity of young, economically disadvantaged fathers in becoming financial and emotional resources to their children and sought to reduce poverty and welfare dependence. As part of a multi-component evaluation, this report examines how participants fared in two key areas: (1) employment rates and earnings levels and (2) the establishment of child support orders and the payment of child support.
| Posted: October 31, 2007 | Availability: HTML | PDF |
Racial Disparities and the New Federalism (Discussion Papers)Author(s): Margery Austin Turner,
Marla McDanielThe paper explores how shifts in both social welfare policies and economic conditions beginning in the mid-1990s altered the relative well-being of blacks— compared to whites—between 1997 and 2002. It uses the National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) to assess how the relative well-being of black families improved or disparities persisted. The findings suggest that some of the disparities between whites and blacks narrowed between 1997 and 2002, especially among people with low incomes. But gaps in income, child school outcomes, employment, assets, and welfare and other income supports, remained essentially unchanged over the period.
| Posted: October 25, 2007 | Availability: HTML | PDF |
Lecture Series Honoring Paul Offner Launched by University of Wisconsin and Urban Institute (Press Release)Author(s): The Urban InstitutePaul Offner’s legacy of applying good scholarship to public policy solutions, especially for society’s disadvantaged, will be celebrated with a lecture series sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs in partnership with the Washington, D.C.-based Urban Institute.
| Posted: October 22, 2007 | Availability: HTML |
The Effects of Welfare and IDA Program Rules on the Asset Holdings of Low-Income Families (Series/Poor Finances: Assets and Low Income Households)Author(s): Signe-Mary McKernan,
Caroline Ratcliffe,
Yunju NamThis report examines the effects of a comprehensive set of 13 welfare, Food Stamp, individual development account (IDA), earned income tax credit (EITC), and minimum wage program rules on the asset holdings of low-education single mothers and families. This report finds empirical evidence that more lenient asset limits in means-tested programs and more generous IDA program rules may have positive effects on asset holdings of low-education single mothers and families.
| Posted: October 15, 2007 | Availability: HTML | PDF |
Assessing Asset Data on Low-Income Households:: Current Availability and Options for Improvement (Series/Poor Finances: Assets and Low Income Households)Author(s): Caroline Ratcliffe,
Henry Chen,
Trina R. Williams-Shanks,
Yunju Nam,
Mark Schreiner,
Min Zhan,
Michael SherradenThis report identifies the most reliable and informative data sources for understanding low-income households’ assets and liabilities, details their limitations, and provides options for improving asset data sources and collection methods. The report evaluates 12 data sets and identifies three as having the greatest potential for future asset research—the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID).
| Posted: October 15, 2007 | Availability: HTML | PDF |
