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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"TANF"”.
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Neighborhood Violence Perceptions and TANF Receipt
<p>Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), implemented in 1997, contains federal work mandates and five-year lifetime limits, yet many TANF recipients continue to need cash benefits for more than five years. TANF recipients often live in urban areas of concentrated poverty which have high …
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Resolving Employment Retention Barriers to Enhance Self-Sufficiency for Missoula County TANF Recipients
… teaching work adjustment; job coaching; and post-TANF supportive services (i.e. clothing and gas vouchers). Quantitative research (study two) was conducted to analyze 90 variables via logistic regression and determine whether or not the WoRC Program assisted clients with gaining employment, and if …
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Resolving Employment Retention Barriers to Enhance Self-Sufficiency for Missoula County TANF Recipients
… teaching work adjustment; job coaching; and post-TANF supportive services (i.e. clothing and gas vouchers). Quantitative research (study two) was conducted to analyze 90 variables via logistic regression and determine whether or not the WoRC Program assisted clients with gaining employment, and if …
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The financial feasibility of marriage for women receiving TANF: An analysis of six states
… a single parent family, a family receiving TANF, cohabiting couple with two wage earners, cohabiting couple with one wage earner, a married family with two wage earners, a married couple with one wage earner, a unmarried couple with an infant (unmarried fragile family), and a married couple …
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The association between housing insecurity and TANF participation: Investigating the role of family resources and stressors
… Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is one such resource that impoverished families can use to help secure housing and other needs. However, there is a dearth of research considering housing-insecure families’ usage of TANF. Preliminary research has provided a broad range of …
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Workfare and the Great Recession: Socioeconomic Outcomes among Black, White, and Hispanic Mothers in the Era of Work-First Welfare
… program Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) is dependent on recipients being able to find work, typically in the low-wage service sector. In addition, this reform handed the states considerable autonomy in TANF's implementation and administration. The literature, citing increased …
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Understanding Food Stamp Program Participation Among Female-Headed Households: Has It Been Affected By Participation In The AFDC/TANF Program?
The caseloads of food stamp program and welfare program experienced sharp drops among non-metropolitan single female-headed families with children (SFHFwC) after welfare reform in 1996. There is concern that leaving welfare program has led to nonparticipation in food stamp program due to multiple …
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Tracing the Evolution of Welfare Discourse from 1990 to 2016
… 1996, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) as the primary cash welfare program for single mothers and children. A political debate during the early to mid-1990s that was particularly hard on welfare recipients culminated in a …
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Essays on Taxation, Marriage, and Labor Supply
… identify factors that help single mothers leave TANF within a short span of time. I find strong evidence for the importance of child support assistance to single mothers' success in exiting TANF with a job. I uncover evidence that work-related activities do not induce TANF participants to leave …
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Worlds Apart: Social Mechanisms of Contrasting Fertility in European American and Native American Populations on the Northern Plains
… stigmatization.<p> Analysis of state and tribal TANF programs and teen pregnancy prevention initiatives illustrate culturally specific approaches to public policy that influence fertility behaviors. State and federal programs reinforce dominant culture ideals of delayed parenthood and nuclear …
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Worlds Apart: Social Mechanisms of Contrasting Fertility in European American and Native American Populations on the Northern Plains
… stigmatization.<p> Analysis of state and tribal TANF programs and teen pregnancy prevention initiatives illustrate culturally specific approaches to public policy that influence fertility behaviors. State and federal programs reinforce dominant culture ideals of delayed parenthood and nuclear …
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Essays on Health and Medical Care
… effect of the Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) program on children's health outcomes using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) over the period 1994 to 2005. The TANF policies have been credited with increased employment for single mothers and a dramatic drop in …
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Dispatches from the front lines : tracking former welfare recipients and direct service providers in Massachusetts
… still receiving Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) benefits, but is scheduled to lose the benefits in less than 24 months. The second phase occurs during the recipient's first year without benefits. The final phase begins at the start of the former recipient's second year without benefits and …
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Asset Limits, Savings Behavior, and Welfare: Evidence from the SIPP and a Life-Cycle Model
… in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) asset limits by linking these limits to individual-level data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and estimating ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions with state and year fixed effects. I find that a $1 increase in …
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Effects of Job Access and Neighborhood disadvantage on Employment Success of Female Former Welfare Recipients
… issues of Temporary Assistance for Needy Family (TANF) recipients who exited cash assistance. This study was grounded on two theoretical perspectives: (1) the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis (SMH) that explained job access as a barrier to employment and (2) Wilson’s observation that neighborhood …
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The relationship between selected housing and demographic charateristics and employment status among rural, low-income families
… assistance, child care assistance, Medicaid, TANF, and marital status. The model correctly classified over 70% of the cases. Family economic and cognitive well-being for rural low-income families was studied with housing tenure as the independent variable. Homeownership was found to increase …
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Incentives and Barriers to Participation in Community Nutrition Education Programs for Recipients of Food Stamps and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
… Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) also receive Medicaid. Medicaid costs have escalated due to the obesity rate, which is currently estimated at 64% of the adult population. In addition, 30% of American children are experiencing obesity or are overweight. It is important for …
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Factors influencing low-income working mother's child care arrangements under different neighborhood and state policy contexts
… day care; and mothers in states with generous TANF eligibility are more likely to choose center care than family day care. Further, in states where child care lead agencies help parents locate child care, mothers are more likely to use center care than relative care, and in states where child …
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Essays on applied microeconomics
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