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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Temporary Assistance for Needy Families"”.
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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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Asset Limits, Savings Behavior, and Welfare: Evidence from the SIPP and a Life-Cycle Model
… behavior. I exploit cross-state variation 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 …
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Tracing the Evolution of Welfare Discourse from 1990 to 2016
<p>In August 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 …
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The association between housing insecurity and TANF participation: Investigating the role of family resources and stressors
… issue facing U.S. households, particularly for families living in poverty. A lack of affordable housing, due, in part, from soaring housing costs and stagnating wages has led a substantial number of impoverished families to experience a housing crisis. Across the U.S., 61,265 households with …
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Three Essays on the Implementation of Food Assistance Programs
… to state and local officials administering food assistance programs for improving children’s utilization of services, nutritional intake, and food security. More specifically, this dissertation consists of three chapters pertaining to the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the Supplemental …