Selling Welfare Reform

Author : Frank Ridzi
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814775942
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selling Welfare Reform written by Frank Ridzi and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1996 Welfare Reform Act promised to end welfare as we knew it. In Selling Welfare Reform, Frank Ridzi uses rich ethnographic detail to examine how new welfare-to-work policies, time limits, and citizenship documentation radically changed welfare, revealing what really goes on at the front lines of the reformed welfare system. Selling Welfare Reform chronicles how entrepreneurial efforts ranging from front-line caseworkers to high-level administrators set the pace for restructuring a resistant bureaucracy. At the heart of this remarkable institutional transformation is a market-centered approach to human services that re-framed the definition of success to include diversion from the present system, de-emphasis of legal protections and behavioral conditioning of poor parents to accommodate employers. Ridzi draws a compelling portrait of how welfare staff and their clients negotiate the complexities of the low wage labor market in an age of global competition, exposing the realities of how the new "common sense" of poverty is affecting the lives of poor and vulnerable Americans.

Author : Siobhan O'Sullivan
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743328362
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buying and Selling the Poor written by Siobhan O'Sullivan and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buying and Selling the Poor ventures behind the scenes of the multibillion-dollar welfare-to-work system, offering new insights into how Australia responds to unemployment and disadvantage. As the authors tell the story of four local employment offices, they paint a vivid picture of a critically important social service which many people are aware of but which few properly understand. They also reveal the wider impacts that processes of marketisation and welfare reform have had on these frontline services over decades, and how the work of frontline staff and service providers has been transformed. Buying and Selling the Poor looks closely at how these services operate, why some succeed where others fail, and what can be learned from the stories of staff and clients who have navigated the system. Three decades into this market experiment, how well are we doing in supporting our most vulnerable citizens to get back to work? 'This revealing, often heart-wrenching work will prove enlightening for not only those within the policy field, but also anyone with an interest in or experience dealing with a system that often feels like a race to the bottom.' - Kim Thomson, Books+Publishing

Author : United States. Congress. House. Welfare Reform Subcommittee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.2C/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Administration's welfare reform proposal written by United States. Congress. House. Welfare Reform Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Welfare Reform Subcommittee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Administration's welfare reform proposal written by United States. Congress. House. Welfare Reform Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeffrey Grogger
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674018915
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welfare Reform written by Jeffrey Grogger and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Welfare Reform, Jeffrey Grogger and Lynn Karoly assemble evidence from numerous studies to assess how welfare reform has affected behavior. To broaden our understanding of this wide-ranging policy reform, the authors evaluate the evidence in relation to an economic model of behavior.

Author : Alan Weil
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
ISBN 13 : 9780877667100
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welfare Reform written by Alan Weil and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 2002 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dozen essays interpret case study research on the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. Weil and Finegold (Assessing the New Federalism project, Urban Institute, Washington, DC) overview the history of welfare reform and policy implications of the latest act. While the value of supporting low-income working families has been demonstrated, Act II requires meeting diverse recipients' needs through all economic phases. Appends notes on case studies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : Richard Hoefer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199735190
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Policy Creation and Evaluation written by Richard Hoefer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although practitioners do not often identify an explicit focus on social welfare policy, the analysis (what it is) and evaluation (what it does) of policy is basic to social work practice. This unique pocket guide presents a case study on one of the most important domestic policy decisions in the post-WWII era, the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996. This law ended welfare as we knew it by creating the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program and closing the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program.Examining the law through three decision-making models assists readers in understanding TANF's historical antecedents, its political and power implications, and the way in which it meets social and economic goals. Individual chapters demonstrate how programs such as TANF are evaluated and the methods that can be used, such as primarily qualitative, primarily quantitative, and mixed methods evaluation techniques. Illustrating the advantages and disadvantages of each approach for evaluation, Hoefer makes use of the numerous studies undertaken in the thirteen years since welfare reform and its 2006 reauthorization. Part history text, readers will also learn about the details of the TANF legislation creation and evaluation, but will finish with a greater understanding of the policy creation and evaluation processes.This pocket guide will be useful to researchers and students of advanced social policy who seek to understand the two stages of policy-making, to develop policy, or to describe the impact of social policy on social problems.

Author : Isabel V. Sawhill
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welfare Reform and Beyond written by Isabel V. Sawhill and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brookings Institution's Welfare Reform & Beyond Initiative was created to inform the critical policy debates surrounding the upcoming congressional reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and a number of related programs that were created or dramatically altered by the 1996 landmark welfare reform legislation. The goal of the project has been to take the large volume of existing and forthcoming research studies and shape them into a more coherent and policy-oriented whole. This capstone collection gathers twenty brief essays (published between January 2001 and February 2002) that focus on assessing the record of welfare reform, specific issues likely to be debated before the TANF reauthorization, and a broader set of policy options for low-income families. It is a reader-friendly volume that will provide policymakers, the press, and the interested public with a comprehensive guide to the numerous issues that must be addressed as Congress considers the future of the nation's antipoverty policies. The collection covers the following topics and features a new introduction from the editors: - An Overview of Effects to Date - Welfare Reform Reauthorization: An Overview of Problems and Issues - A Tax Proposal for Working Families with Children - Welfare Reform and Poverty - Reducing Non-Marital Births - Which Welfare Reforms are Best for Children? - Welfare and the Economy - What Can Be Done to Reduce Teen Pregnancy and Out-of-Wedlock Births? - Changing Welfare Offices - State Programs - Welfare Reform and Employment - Fragile Families, Welfare Reform, and Marriage - Health Insurance, Welfare, and Work - Helping the Hard-to-Employ - Sanctions and Welfare Reform - Child Care and Welfare Reform - Job Retention and Advancement in Welfare Reform - Housing and Welfare Reform - Non-Citizens - Block Grant Structure - Food Stamps - Work Support System - Possible Welfare Reform in the Cities

Author : Eugene Smolensky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welfare Reform written by Eugene Smolensky and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joel F. Handler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139461168
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blame Welfare, Ignore Poverty and Inequality written by Joel F. Handler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-27 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the passage of the 1996 welfare reform, not only welfare, but poverty and inequality have disappeared from the political discourse. The decline in the welfare rolls has been hailed as a success. This book challenges that assumption. It argues that while many single mothers left welfare, they have joined the working poor, and fail to make a decent living. The book examines the persistent demonization of poor single-mother families; the impact of the low-wage market on perpetuating poverty and inequality; and the role of the welfare bureaucracy in defining deserving and undeserving poor. It argues that the emphasis on family values - marriage promotion, sex education and abstinence - is misguided and diverts attention from the economic hardships low-income families face. The book proposes an alternative approach to reducing poverty and inequality that centers on a children's allowance as basic income support coupled with jobs and universal child care.