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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"welfare recipients"”.
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An exploratory look at university students' attitudes toward welfare recipients
1 PDF file (viii, 121 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm)
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The Working Poor : Labour Strategies of Welfare Recipients in Helsinki, 1890–1970
… early industrialization until the era of the welfare state in Finland. The dissertation analyses the labour strategies of individuals in the receipt of poor relief or social assistance allowances in Helsinki between the early 1890s and the late 1960s. The study focuses on three fields of work: …
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Effects of Job Access and Neighborhood disadvantage on Employment Success of Female Former Welfare Recipients
… on the employment success of female former welfare recipients. It mainly addressed vital policy concerns on employment issues of Temporary Assistance for Needy Family (TANF) recipients who exited cash assistance. This study was grounded on two theoretical perspectives: (1) the Spatial …
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Dispatches from the front lines : tracking former welfare recipients and direct service providers in Massachusetts
In August of 1996, welfare policy in the United States went through the most significant transformation 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 …
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Welfare Reform: Employers' Perceptions of Factors Associated with Virginia's Initiative for Employment Not Welfare
Welfare reform has been an issue in America for many years. The need to make positive changes to the welfare system escalated to the point that federal legislation was passed in 1996. This legislation mandated that each state establish welfare-to-work programs and require that welfare recipients …
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Living in Algorithmic Governance: A Study in the Digital Governance of Social Assistance in Ontario
… a hybrid of traditional methods of regimenting welfare assistance and a newer high-tech version. I reveal a critical shift in governance practice with SAMS, as the system governs welfare recipients into a particular mode of productive subjectivity. Despite the wealth and depth of research in …
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Access to jobs : transportation barriers faced by low-skilled autoless workers in U.S. metropolitan areas
… explored. Focusing on low-skilled workers and welfare recipients, this dissertation explores and quantifies the importance of job accessibility in employment outcomes for disadvantaged workers without autos in U.S. metropolitan areas. Metropolitan areas studied are Boston, San Francisco, and …
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Win, loose or draw? : do employers benefit from hiring workers through Boston-based job training programs ?/
In the movement to "change welfare as we know it," traditional job training programs in Massachusetts have inadvertently come under siege. State law-makers are eschewing job training in favor of work-first policies -- mandating most public assistance recipients work or volunteer a minimum of twenty …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… the labor market outcomes of current and former welfare recipients. Chapter 3 focuses on publicly provided education at the primary and secondary levels, and estimates the impact of a teacher incentive pay program on student achievement.
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African-American Women and Welfare: A Qualitative Study of African-American Women Receiving Public Assistance
… assistance and the labels and stigmas (i.e., welfare checks, food stamps, and medical cards) associated with receiving public assistance were examined. Research findings indicate that there is stress associated with receiving public assistance, and the stigmas associated with public assistance …
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Tracing the Evolution of Welfare Discourse from 1990 to 2016
… 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 block grant to states tied to mandatory work requirements and time-limited lifetime …
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Improving access to jobs via effective public transportation : a planning framwork for mobility in San Juan
… land-use policies based on their ability to help welfare recipients and low-income workers reach employment. Empirical results show that concentrated poverty severely reduces low-income workers' job accessibility by forcing them to compete more intensely with one another for a limited supply of …
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Forging a Punishing State: The Punitive Turn in U.S. Criminal and Social Policy, 1968--1980
… examines two intertwined recent phenomena: welfare state retrenchment and burgeoning carceral institutions. Through research on seminal struggles over welfare, drug, and criminal sentencing policy, it chronicles a profound shift during the 1970s where programs that championed punishment, …
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Forging a punishing state: The punitive turn in U.S. criminal and social policy, 1968-1980
… examines two intertwined recent phenomena: welfare state retrenchment and burgeoning carceral institutions. Through research on seminal struggles over welfare, drug, and criminal sentencing policy, it chronicles a profound shift during the 1970s where programs that championed punishment, …
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Family Cap Programs: The Future of Pennsylvania Welfare Reform
Welfare reform has been 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 …
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Encoding the Body: Critically Assessing the Collection and Uses of Biometric Information
… programs through the biometric fingerprinting of welfare recipients and the recent adoption of biometric passports at the Canada-US border. In doing so, I investigate questions about the relationship between new technologies, policing and surveillance, as well as the role of media institutions and …
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Predictors of Depressive Symptoms and Obesity in African American Women Transitioning from Welfare to Work
… States, particularly female African American welfare recipients transitioning to work. African American women are twice as likely to experience depressive symptoms as women of other races. Fifty percent of African American women are obese. The prevalence of depression and depressive symptoms …
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Children's Corner, Inc.
… Children's Corner to benefit from accepting welfare recipients as enrollees. Sales consist of providing these services to parents on a half-day, daily, weekly, or monthly basis. Rates are also available on a space-available, or exact per diem rate, with or without lunch. Sales are then …
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The Creation and Illustration of Quality of Life: A Conceptual Model for Examining Welfare Reform Impacts
… 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 some other economic form - a practice that does not provide a true …
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