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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"welfare-to-work"”.
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Lost in transition: welfare to work in Louisiana
The decline in welfare rolls coupled with the increase in work activity among former recipients since the mid-nineties might indicate that welfare reform legislation has been a success. This is only part of the story describing the impact of welfare reform. Although many have exited the rolls, a …
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Stress and Coping Experiences of Women in Transition: From Welfare to Work
<p>Welfare reform and the consequent emphasis on employment represent a stressful sequence of events in the lives of women who are already facing the chronic stressors associated with single parenting and poverty. The current study assessed the levels of distress, factors contributing to distress, …
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The Transition From Welfare to Work: An Analysis of Factors Influencing Women's Employment Patterns
… views which claim the poor choose not to work and in order to receive federal support. It also supports large scale labor market reform including the creation of jobs which pay a living wage as low-wage work does not prevent poverty. The need for greater local employment opportunities …
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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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Work, poverty and welfare reform: welfare-to-work programmes for lone parents in depressed local labour markets
This dissertation examines the impact of welfare reform on the work and poverty of lone parents living on welfare in depressed local labour markets. It uses a comparative approach to compare supply-side welfare-to-work programmes in Sheffield, UK and Buffalo, USA, and draws on current debates in …
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The Self-Sufficiency Ideology: The Bureaucratic Constraints on Manager Identity that Shape Manager Perceptions of the Welfare-to-Work Program in North Carolina.
Using telephone interviews with 100 welfare-to-work program managers in North Carolina, I examine the ways in which manager identities shape the perceptions of challenges and barriers to achieving client self-sufficiency and the ways in which these managers would make changes to the welfare-to-work …
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Employment and Welfare-to-Work Training Initiatives: The Effects of Pre-Training Attitudes on Job-Search Behavior, Employment Status, and Job-Search Intended Effort
For over a decade, the issues of welfare reform and unemployment have been high priorities at the national level. Surveys were administered to participants in three training agencies to examine individual pre-training attitudinal and behavioral variables, including self-efficacy, employment …
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Career ladders and work pathways : organizational shifts toward job-placement programs in Boston
Federal welfare-to-work legislation (the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 and related federal grants) and the anticipation of the consolidation of job training programs through the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 have created new relationships amongst local government, …
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JOURNEY TO SELF-SUFFICIENCY: AN ANALYSIS OF MOTIVATION LEVEL AND EMPLOYMENT HOPE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING RESIDENTS
<p>The Pilot Work Requirement (PWR) for the Housing Authority of San Bernardino is a mandated welfare to work program that was implemented with the goal of promoting self-sufficiency of its residents. Self-sufficiency is both economic and psychological. Participants in welfare-to-work programs view …
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Sole parents and transition back to the workforce: catered for or not?
This study researched the impact of changes in welfare legislation in Australia that have occurred since July 2006 relative to people receiving government financial assistance or payments via Centrelink (Harding, Vu, Percival & Beer 2005). The reasons for legislative change are broadly discussed …
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An exploration of how mental health service users construct meaning from the Work Capability Assessment process - using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis
Welfare reform has seen disabled people finding their eligibility for unconditional welfare benefits reassessed through the Work Capability Assessment. The welfare-to-work policy has seen those that are economically inactive and unemployed constructed as problematic groups who require intervention …
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A Critical Analysis of a Paraprofessional Training Program: Teacher Aides Managing Their Journey to Self-Sufficiency
… program was designed, developed and implemented to train and provide employment placement assistance and employment retention services to adults designated as economically and/or academically disadvantaged. There were two research questions: (1) How did the paraprofessional training program …
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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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Resolving Employment Retention Barriers to Enhance Self-Sufficiency for Missoula County TANF Recipients
… and employment retention in a rural county welfare-to-work setting, the Missoula, Montana WoRC Program. Qualitative research (study one) was conducted, to interview clients regarding reasons why they had lost jobs in the past, and, to elicit their suggestions regarding new services the WoRC …
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Resolving Employment Retention Barriers to Enhance Self-Sufficiency for Missoula County TANF Recipients
… and employment retention in a rural county welfare-to-work setting, the Missoula, Montana WoRC Program. Qualitative research (study one) was conducted, to interview clients regarding reasons why they had lost jobs in the past, and, to elicit their suggestions regarding new services the WoRC …
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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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Current perspectives of statewide Workforce Investment Board members toward community college workforce investment programs
… 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 promise of …
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The employment requirements of disabled persons : a study of the development of state supported employment provision.
This thesis deals with the historical background concerning the development of disability-related employment measures and the employment exclusion experienced by disabled persons. In particular, the enquiry focuses upon the early post-war period up until the introduction in 1997 of the New Deal for …
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