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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act"”.
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The"War on Poverty" and "Welfare Reform": A Comparative Discourse Analysis of Elite Newspaper Editorial Coverage in 1964 and 1996
… system underwent a change from a model that acted to protect citizens from the vagaries of the market economy to one that mandated their participation in the paid labor force. For a shift in policy of this magnitude to occur and be unquestioningly accepted by the public, a significant change …
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The Conscience of Poverty: Rhetoric, Phenomenology, and Work in Contemporary Welfare Reform Debates
… a rhetorical space in which they are valueless and disposable. Taking as its object of study the deliberations surrounding the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (better known as Welfare Reform), I provide a history of welfare and poverty rhetorics in the Unites …
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An economic analysis of abstinence-only sex education in Alabama
… purpose of this dissertation is to assess the demand for effectiveness of, and economic impact of Alabama's Title V funded abstinence-only sex education programs. The specific outcomes to be examined in this study are gonorrhea, Chlamydia, birth, and abortion rates among Alabama teens. The …
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Child support enforcement in West Virginia
… of trends in child support enforcement before and after the implementation of The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) and to determine whether West Virginia is keeping up with the national average of child support enforcement. Using a time-trend …
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A review of Social Security and Supplemental Security Income from a federal budget perspective
… (SSI) starting from its inception in 1972, and identifies and evaluates the major changes that have transformed it through its short lifetime. SSI originated in the Social Security Act of 1935, and was later enhanced by the Social Security Act Amendments of 1950. As one of the multitude of …
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Family Cap Programs: The Future of Pennsylvania Welfare Reform
… a highly debated topic since before the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) and continues to be at the forefront of many policy makers' agendas. Although significant positive changes have occurred in welfare policy since PRWORA's adoption, welfare …
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The Creation and Illustration of Quality of Life: A Conceptual Model for Examining Welfare Reform Impacts
Policymakers, public administrators, the media, and others are celebrating the "success" of the latest version of welfare reform, codified into law in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. Most often, success is defined in terms of declining caseloads or in …
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Housing Challenges of Asian and Pacific Island Elders in the United States from 1995 to 2007
Limited government supports under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 could cause low-income immigrants to struggle with housing affordability. Thus, this study examined housing challenges of Asian and Pacific Island elders, focusing on government …
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Taxes, Welfare and Democratic Discourse: Mainstream Media Coverage and the Rise of the American New Right
… consequential ways. However, systematic and critical empirical analysis of the ideological diversity of such news coverage is rare. Scholars have also illuminated how and why U.S. economic and social welfare policy has shifted rightward in recent decades, but they have failed to consider …
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The Social Construction of Black Fatherhood in Responsible Fatherhood Policies
… family policies in order to serve fathers: The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 and the Child Support Enforcement Act of 1975. Historically, these two polices have been racialized and discourse surrounding them may contribute to negative cultural …
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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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Faith-Based Organizations and Legislative Advocacy: A Qualitative Inquiry
Since the early 1990s, religion and matters of faith and spirituality have become a focal point in numerous arenas beyond the individual and traditionally sacred. With President George W. Bush's White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives of 2001, the Charitable Choice provision of …
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Elite Rhetoric, Target Group Positioning, and Policymaking: Immigrant Women and Project 100% in San Diego County
<p>housands of Mexicans are crossing the U.S. border, bearing children, and collecting welfare checks, according to a dramatic 1994 article printed in the popular magazine Reader's Digest. This well-known publication, which at the time sent out 15 million copies per month, included a story alleging …
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Dispatches from the front lines : tracking former welfare recipients and direct service providers in Massachusetts
… since the New Deal. Once a theoretical notion and popular political agenda, welfare reform came to fruition in the United States with bipartisan support. President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, which made good on his promise to "change …
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Factors influencing low-income working mother's child care arrangements under different neighborhood and state policy contexts
… of welfare reforms following passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 has increased pressures on parents receiving public assistance to participate in the labor force even during their children’s formative years. Under this context, …
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THE IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE ON COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE WITHIN A FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATION
… a small, non-profit, faith-based organization impacted communities of practice (CoP). The literature reviewed focuses on the following: faith-based, non-profit organizations, communities of practice and organizational culture. The study was situated in a small, non-profit, faith-based organization …