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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"1996 Welfare reform"”.
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Social policy evaluation: How did the 1996 Welfare Reform Legislation influence unmarried Teen Birth rates in Texas Counties
Implementation of the 1996 Welfare Reform Legislation radically changed a 61-year-old policy of providing welfare benefits to eligible low-income mothers and their children. Despite a lack of evidence, current welfare policies are being implemented based on the belief that welfare restrictions and …
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Child Care Subsidy Policy After the 1996 Federal Welfare Reform: A Case Study of State Policy Formation in Illinois
With the repeal of federal programs by the 1996 welfare reform law (PL 104-193), state governments have been given new responsibility for creating child care subsidy (CCS) policy. This study examines the CCS policy-formation process in Illinois, analyzing the influence of several key factors on …
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Access to Quality Child Care for Preschool Children With Disabilities: An Examination of Efforts by Illinois Head Start Programs in the Context of Welfare Reform
… concerns raised by the DSCs. Another issue, the 1996 welfare reform law, was identified as a factor in influencing parents' eligibility to family support programs and their capacities to access quality services for their children with disabilities. Despite these challenges, HS staff described a …
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Current perspectives of statewide Workforce Investment Board members toward community college workforce investment programs
ABSTRACT In 1996, Congress passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (welfare reform), which, using the mechanism of the existing state Human Resource Investment Councils (HRICs) created by the Job Training Partnership Act Amendments of 1992, held out the …
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Essays on Welfare Reform and Child Support Enforcement: Evidence From State Administrative Data
Since 1996 welfare reform proclaimed a substantial cutback in welfare benefits, state-initiated child support enforcement has gained increasing attention as a policy alternative for the poor single-parent households. This dissertation assesses the effect of child support enforcement on low-income …
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Essays in Health Economics
… eligibility for parents particularly after the 1996 welfare reform. At the same time, welfare reform also put in place policies that limited the eligibility of recent legal immigrants for public programs including Medicaid. In this chapter the effects of these changes in Medicaid eligibility …
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Economic consequences of family dissolution
Welfare states and policies have changed greatly over the past decades, mostly characterized by retrenchments in terms of government spending or in terms of restricted access to certain benefits. In the area of family policies, however, a lot of countries have simultaneously expanded provisions and …