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Economic Conditions and Welfare Reform
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Sort Desciption: measures of economic conditions other than unemployment rates notably labor. demand factors. They focus on state employment growth the wage premium ...
Content Inside: 1 Economic Conditions and Welfare Reform Copyright1999 W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Chapter 1 - Introduction What Are the Early Lessons? Sheldon Danziger Editor University of Michigan The papers in this volume were commissioned and presented at a conference held in November 1998 in Washington D.C. The Joint Center for Poverty Research at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University organized the conference which was funded by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) at the Department of Health and Human Services. Assisting me in planning the conference were Greg Duncan of Northwestern University and Donald Oellerich of ASPE. Special thanks are due to the conference discussants and participants who provided valuable suggestions for the revisions that are published here and to Julie Balzekas and Diane Kallenback for excellent staff assistance. Based on early analyses of the effects of the 1996 welfare reform act this introduction focuses on three key questions: Why are caseloads falling? How are recipients faring? How are the states responding? REFORMING WELFARE Welfare reform has generated a great deal of interest in the 1990s. No other domestic policy has generated such intense media coverage popular discussion and policy debate. This round of welfare reform began when presidential candidate Clinton gave a 1992 campaign speech calling for dramatic changes in welfare policy: No one who works full-time and has children at home should be poor anymore. No one who can work should be able to stay on welfare forever. Shortly after Clinton took office he appointed an interagency task force to turn this promise into legislation. At the time few expected the years of contentious debate that ensued. In the summer of 1994 the Clinton administration issued its welfare reform plan; it was set aside after the Republican victory in the 1994 elections. A Republican welfare reform plan that had been part of the ...
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