The Transition from Welfare to Work: Processes, Challenges, and Outcomes

ISBN-13: 9780789019424 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 192 str.

Sharon Telleen;Judith V. Sayad

Opis

How well do you understand the sweeping welfare reforms of the mid-1990s? The Transition from Welfare to Work: Processes, Challenges, and Outcomes provides a comprehensive examination of the welfare-to-work initiatives that were undertaken just prior to and following the major reform of United States welfare legislation in 1996. It will familiarize you with the intent of those reforms and show you how those interventions have been implemented. It also explores the barriers to employment that must be overcome by welfare-to-work clients, and the impact of these changes on clients, employers, and society. From the editors: "Although the numbers enrolled in welfare programs dropped dramatically in the last few years of the economic expansion of the 1990s, until recently we have known very little about the conditions of families affected by welfare-to-work policies. How did welfare-to-work interventions change the lives of participants and their families? What factors helped or hindered the transition to paid work? Are welfare-to-work policies likely to have actually improved the earnings or income of former AFDC recipients? This book studies all these questions." The Transition from Welfare to Work: Processes, Challenges, and Outcomes presents qualitative, quantitative, and econometric analyses as well as panel studies, longitudinal, and quasi-experimental designs. Beginning with a brief description of the goals and structure of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, this book examines all of the phases of the welfare-to-work process. Use it to increase your understanding of: the implementation of interventions designed to place TANF recipients in jobs the factors that impact the readiness of low-income women to enter the job market the outcomes of current and earlier welfare-to-work interventions the steps we need to take to know how these citizens are faring in the welfare-to-work environment

Spis treści

• Challenges of Welfare Reform
• The Effects of Welfare-to-Work Legislation on Children and Mothers: A Legal Overview
• The Social Ecology of the Transition to Work
• Welfare, Work, and Well-Being Among Inner-City Mothers
• How Do Maternal Risk Factors Affect Children in Low-Income Families? Further Evidence of Two-Generational Implications
• Providing Financial Empowerment to Mothers in Welfare: Pilot Evaluations of a Hospitality Training Program
• Career Search Efficacy Among an At-Risk Sample: Examining Changes Among Welfare Recipients
• Welfare Reform and Women’s Health: Challenges and Opportunities to Advance the Public Response to the Health Needs of Poor Women Through Monitoring and Collaboration
• The Effect of State Welfare Waivers on Family Earnings and Income Growth of AFDC Recipients, 1993-1995
• Index
• Reference Notes Included