61. The Yale Journal Of Ethics welfare reform in Michigan pushed the poor Rfrom general assistance benefits to emergency beds.S Federal aid helped those who lost aid in Michigan; http://www.yale.edu/yje/welfare.html

The Brave New World: A Model for Welfare Reform by Brandon Garrett The first victim of Connecticut's latest welfare cuts is unem-ployed but defiant. When Governor John Rowland signed a bill providing for an eighteen-month cap on state welfare, the Welfare Director for the city of New Haven, Debra Shapiro, immediately resigned in protest. A local welfare director for 13 years, she joined the ranks of the jobless people she previously served rather than bear the responsibility for implementing cuts. "Connecticut is winning handily the race to the bottom. The welfare reform agenda is stalled nationally, but Connecticut is jumping the gun with welfare repeal, not welfare reform. Since 1990 there have been attacks on welfare every year, every year. These changes have been working on me, and I did not feel that I could live with the new policies," Shapiro explains. Connecticut is one of many states preparing to drastically reduce its welfare programs. Although Congress remains deadlocked over the specifics of welfare reform, a majority of congressmen and governors share a desire to replace welfare with a system of block grants to states. Even President Clinton's proposed 1997 budget includes a five-year time limit on welfare benefits. The National Governor's Council plan, the House and Senate welfare proposals, and the President's plan all share the same basic features including an inherent flaw. Learning from Past Welfare Reform Opponents of welfare maintain that no practical solution to welfare problems exists. "The welfare reform being proposed for states is a wholesale experiment; we have never tried anything on this scale. There are no studies that will tell you if "x," then "y." This is a brave new world," says Linda Wolf, Deputy Director of the American Public Welfare Association. However, studies describing the effects of welfare reform do exist and reformers can learn from the mistakes of the states that have initiated reform in the past five years.

62. Migration Information Source - Immigrants And Welfare Use These rules were subsequently modified (see Immigrants, welfare reform, by the attorney general as necessary for the protection of life and safety. http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/display.cfm?ID=45

63. WELFARE REFORM & THE LABOUR MARKET Bill 142 will replace the current Family Benefits and general welfare Assistance A critical part of the welfare reform debate to come in Ontario will be http://www.welfarewatch.toronto.on.ca/wrkfrw/labmar.htm

ARE THERE ENOUGH JOBS? Ontario Social Safety NetWork Backgrounder Introduction Who is on Welfare? The labour market for people leaving assistance Why should we value work, when employers don't? ... Conclusion INTRODUCTION This is one in a series of Ontario Social Safety NetWork Backgrounders, examining different aspects of Bill 142, the Social Assistance Reform Act , currently before the Ontario Legislature. Bill 142 will replace the current Family Benefits and General Welfare Assistance programs with two new programs. The Ontario Disability Support Plan (ODSPA) will provide assistance to some people with disabilities. All others in needthe unemployed, single mothers, elderly people and people with temporary illnesses or disabilitieswill have to seek assistance under the Ontario Works Act (OWA). ONTARIO WORKS AND EMPLOYMENT EXPECTATIONS The Ontario Works Act places employment expectations on far more people than before. 'Employable' people have always been required to seek work and accept any job they were physically capable of doing, but under the OWA, sole support parents of "older children" and many people currently considered disabled will also have employment expectations placed on them. (We won't know exactly who will be included until the province releases the OWA regulations, which it has so far not done.) This means people will be assigned to one of the Ontario Works program streams: Community Participation (work-for-welfare), Employment Supports (job search or basic skills training) or Employment Placement.

64. Welfare Reform about the President s vision for welfare reform. Throughout the The child and general poverty rates are down. The poverty http://www.hhs.gov/asl/testify/t960522a.html

This is an archive page. The links are no longer being updated. Testimony on Welfare Reform by Mary Jo Bane Assistant Secretary for Children and Families U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Before the House Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Human Resources May 22, 1996 Mr. Chairman, Mr. Ford, and members of the Subcommittee: I want to thank you for giving me the opportunity to testify today about the President's vision for welfare reform. Throughout the years, this committee, including many of its current members, has built a great tradition of bipartisan leadership on the issues of welfare reform. We look forward to working closely with you in this tradition to reach a bipartisan consensus on welfare reform legislation. Last month, the Administration submitted to Congress a welfare reform bill entitled the "Work First and Personal Responsibility Act of 1996". This bill will replace the current welfare system with one that demands responsibility, strengthens families, protects children, and provides states with broad

65. Education And Training Under Welfare Reform The role of education and training in welfare reform is controversial. In general, the research suggests that welfareto-work models that include http://www.financeproject.org/Publications/edissue.htm

/* You may give each page an identifying name, server, and channel on the next lines. */ var pageName = "Page Name" var server = "Server" var channel = "Channel" /**** DO NOT ALTER ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE! ****/ var code = ' '; Issue Notes Vol. 2, No. 2 March 1998 Education and Training Under Welfare Reform by Marie Cohen Background The role of education and training in welfare reform is controversial. Some welfare experts and policymakers advocate providing education and training to prepare welfare recipients for jobs that will eventually help them leave poverty—often called the human capital approach. Others advocate placing welfare recipients immediately in jobs whenever possible, even if these jobs pay wages below the poverty level. These "Work First" proponents argue that welfare recipients learn more from an actual job than from any educational program. Policies toward education and training for welfare recipients have changed over time. The Family Support Act of 1988 encouraged the provision of these services. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) shifted the emphasis of federal policy toward a "Work First" approach. It encourages quick job placement by requiring increasing proportions of state welfare caseloads to be participating in work activities for increasing number of hours and limiting the extent to which education and training can count as such work activities.

66. Using Participation To Promote Welfare Reform Goals US general Accounting Office. welfare reform Assessing the Effectiveness of Various welfareto-Work Approaches. GAO/HEHS-99-179. http://www.financeproject.org/Publications/usingparticipationIN.htm

/* You may give each page an identifying name, server, and channel on the next lines. */ var pageName = ""; /**** DO NOT ALTER ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE! ****/ var code = ' '; Vol. 7, No. 9 June 2003 Using Participation to Promote Welfare Reform Goals By Nanette Relave Background The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) strengthened requirements for participation in work-related activities. These participation requirements have played a major role in welfare reform by giving federal direction to state and local activities, orienting welfare systems toward work-focused policies and services, fostering organizational culture change, and influencing the behavior of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) applicants and recipients. As welfare reform has unfolded, concerns about participation requirements have emerged. Some stakeholders are concerned the requirements have reduced access to education and training. Others fear not enough TANF recipients are participating in activities that count toward federal participation requirements. The debate on TANF reauthorization has brought such concerns to the forefront. PRWORA established participation rates one for all families and another for two-parent families that states must meet or face a reduction in their TANF block grant. The current all-families rate is 50 percent and the current two-parent rate is 90 percent. To count toward these federal rates, TANF recipients must spend a minimum number of hours per week in one or more allowable activities. However, a caseload reduction credit that lowers participation rates has lessened the impact of the federal requirements. More information on participation requirements is available from the Welfare Information Network at

67. Welfare Reform In Maryland -- Testimony A few bills have been introduced in this session of the general Assembly that take Combining federal and state funds, prereform spending on welfare and http://www.marylandpolicy.org/wel2-00.htm

Analysis of state policy choices with particular attention to their impacts on low- and moderate-income Marylanders. February 14, 2000 Home Publications complete list of testimony, reports and analyses About us Internships work with us Links Fiscal analysis in other states Contact us ask to be placed on our Email notification list Policy Institute 8720 Georgia Avenue Suite 303 Silver Spring, MD 20910 fax 301-565-0606 - and - 190 West Ostend Street Suite 201 Baltimore, MD 21230 a project of the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations www.marylandpolicy.org Testimony of Steve Bartolomei-Hill, Director Maryland Budget and Tax Policy Institute Presented to the U.S. Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources February 14, 2000 Thank you for the opportunity to address you today. My name is Steve Bartolomei-Hill, and I am director of the Maryland Budget and Tax Policy Institute. The Institute provides timely and accurate analysis of budget and tax priorities in Maryland. We focus on how policies affect low- and moderate-income people and other vulnerable populations, and the important community programs that serve them. The Institute is a project of the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations.

68. California Budget Project - Tax Cuts & Welfare Reform: A Review Of The Governor' Under the guise of welfare reform, the Governor would make permanent the general support for the California Budget Project is provided by grants from http://www.cbp.org/1996/overview.html

A REVIEW OF THE GOVERNOR'S PROPOSED 1996-97 BUDGET March 1996 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The state budget expresses both the funding and policy priorities of the Governor and the Legislature for California. With the introduction of his proposed budget, the Governor sets forth his vision and values for California in the years ahead. Over the coming months, Legislators and the public will respond to the vision laid out in the proposed spending plan. This report reviews key proposals put forward in the Governor's budget and presents an economic and historical context for the choices confronting policymakers as they begin to craft the 1996-97 budget. The Governor's proposed 15% reduction in personal income and bank and corporation tax revenues, coupled with ten new or expanded tax expenditures, would reduce state revenues by $572 million in 1996-97 and $4.7 billion at full implementation in 1999-00. If these proposals become law, General Fund revenues will not keep pace with inflation, much less growth in population or demand for services. The impact of the proposed tax cuts will be felt most strongly in California's elementary and secondary school classrooms, already the most crowded in the nation. As a result of the interaction between revenue levels and the constitutional school spending guarantee enacted by Proposition 98, for every dollar lost to the state General Fund, $0.60 will come out of school funding. In 1999-00, the proposed tax cut would reduce the funds available for each student in California's public schools by $483.

69. FSP - General Program Requirements Letter to State Commissioners on Implementing welfare reform in the Food Stamp Table of welfare reform provisions and implementation details attached. http://www.fns.usda.gov/fsp/rules/Memo/Support/gen_program_requirements.htm

General Program Requirements Governors on FS Eligibility On households leaving TANF. Questions and Answers on Categorical Eligibility The FNS National Office sent this clarification to all FNS regional offices in October 1999. TANF Diversion Payments : The FNS National Office sent the memorandum below to all FNS regional offices to clarify a point in a policy announced in June 1998. Ensuring Food Stamp Nutrition Benefits During TANF Program Changes : Letter to State Welfare Commissioners dated January 29, 1999. FSP Memorandum - Diversion Payments. (Change in Policy). FSP Memorandum - Diversion Payments. (Further Guidance). Cumulative Q's and A's on Certification and Work Issues in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA). Memo: Guidance for States on Use of Discretionary Food Stamp Program Time Limit Exemptions. Size of Guidance: 237KB. Recommendation: print file in landscape. Cumulative PRWORA Q's and A's on Food Stamp Fraud, Disqualifications, and Recipient Claims.

70. Welfare Reform: A Consumer Perspective several welfare reform bills were introduced in the 1994 Indiana general Many welfare reform initiatives around the country advocate a time limit on http://community.michiana.org/famconn/wrconper.html

Home What's New Family Involvement Welfare Reform ... Site Map WELFARE REFORM from the Consumer Perspective: A conversation with Indiana mothers who are receiving or have received AFDC In the wake of President Clinton's statement that he would "end welfare as we know it" has come a host of welfare reform initiatives from around the country. Indiana is no exception; several welfare reform bills were introduced in the 1994 Indiana General Assembly. Liberals and conservatives alike agree that the welfare system is not functioning as it should. An extensive survey of public attitudes toward the welfare system, conducted by Peter D. Hart Associates and American Viewpoint, found that many American voters believe that the welfare system today "exacerbates the problem of poverty, because. . . it encourages dependence and fails to provide sufficient help for people to make the transition to self-reliance." Developing a welfare system that truly fosters independence and self-reliance is a considerable challenge. The design of any new system should utilize the experiences and insights of welfare recipients, who can identify precisely the disincentives to work as well as the effective components of the current system. In order to hear some of these insights, The Family Connection hosted a focus group for present and former welfare recipients in June 1994 as part of the Step Ahead/First Steps Consumer Involvement Project. The discussion was enlightening. It is our hope that the participants' words can help legislators and voters gain a deeper understanding of the problems and possible solutions of this complicated issue.

71. Welfare Reform And Pensions Bill This is the text of the welfare reform and Pensions Bill, as presented to the general functions of local authorities as regards claims and information. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199899/cmbills/044/1999044.htm

Search Advanced Search Home Glossary Index ... Parliament Live section... Parliamentary Publications and Archives Site Map Bills Hansard Directories Frequently Asked Questions Judicial Work House of Commons Session 1998-99 Internet Publications Other Bills before Parliament Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill This is the text of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill, as presented to the House of Commons on 10th February 1999. EXPLANATORY NOTES Explanatory Notes to the Bill, prepared by the Department of Social Security, are published separately as Bill 44-EN. EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Mr Secretary Darling has made the following statement under section 19(1)(a) of the Human Rights Act 1998:- In my view, the provisions of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill are compatible with the Convention rights. Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES P ART I S TAKEHOLDER PENSION SCHEMES Clause Meaning of "stakeholder pension scheme". Registration of stakeholder pension schemes. Duty of employers to facilitate access to stakeholder pension schemes. Powers of inspection for securing compliance with section 3. ... Interpretation and application of Part I. P ART II P ENSIONS GENERAL Monitoring of employers' payments to personal pension schemes.

72. Yaledailynews.com - City Residents Speak Out On Welfare Reform City residents speak out on welfare reform. BY SARAH D. SAMSON Under the new system, clients can be on general Assistance for only 10 months and then http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=5355

73. 30th Anniversary Retrospective- Illinois Issues welfare reform In 1996, Congress moved the nation across a momentous line, In the turbulent wake of Proposition 13, the newly elected 81st general http://illinoisissues.uis.edu/features/2004sept/retro1.html

CURRENT ISSUE NEWS WRITE A LETTER TO THE EDITOR HOME PAST ISSUES SPECIAL PROJECTS STAFF SUBSCRIBE Retrospectives Three decades of public affairs journalism PART 1: Welfare reform, Tax caps, and Capital punishment PART 2: Patronage rulings, Cutback Amendment, Judicial subdistricts PART 3: Energy resources, Water commerce, Economic subsidies ... Make a comment about this article (Please state month and author of article.) Write a letter to the editor Ask a staff member Retrospective Three decades of public affairs journalism Part 1 This coming January, Illinois Issues The Editors Welfare reform In 1996, Congress moved the nation across a momentous line, ending 60 years of social policy and leaving in its place a slogan: welfare-to-work. Under the federal law, families are no longer entitled to income support. Instead, everyone is required to find work. Nobody will get help for more than a total of five years. Illinois adopted those guidelines, but efforts at such reforms began in this state as early as the mid-1980s. The following excerpt from the magazine examines the debate two years before the federal changes. full-time job.

74. Welfare Reform In Miami: Implementation, Effects, And Experiences Of Poor Famili a strong economy, welfare reform, or all three. In general, the women earned low wages. MDRC has released reports on welfare reform in Cleveland and http://www.mdrc.org/publications/387/overview.html

Elementary School Reforms Secondary School Reforms District Reforms After-School Programs ... Printer Friendly Version June 2004 Welfare Reform in Miami Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and Neighborhoods Thomas Brock, Isaac Kwakye, Judy C. Polyné, Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, David Seith, Alex Stepick, Carol Dutton Stepick with Tara Cullen and Sarah Rich Key Findings Miami-Dade implemented a stringent program. Welfare reform appears to have led to an increase in employment among welfare recipients. Neighborhood conditions remained stable or improved. Many critics of welfare reform feared that restrictions on welfare benefits would devastate poor communities, but an analysis of social and economic indicators in Miami-Dade from 1992 through 2001 does not support this conclusion. Both countywide and in the poorest neighborhoods, there were substantial declines in the teen birthrate, infant deaths, child abuse and neglect, and violent crime. Property crime declined slightly. The number of babies born with a low birth weight remained stable. These trends generally predated welfare reform and did not show major changes after 1996. MDRC has released reports on welfare reform in Cleveland and Philadelphia and will publish a report on Los Angeles by early 2005.

75. Welfare Reform's Aftermath (Gotham Gazette. March, 2000) This month s article is welfare reform s Aftermath by Emanuel Tobier, NYU. (Also in welfare reformers sights was the much smaller general Assistance http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/20000301/5/604

loadCivicsImages(5); @import "/css/complex.css"; @import "/css/complex_vnav.css"; You are using an old browser: This site will look much better in a browser that supports web standards , but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device. Firefox is an excellent, free, browser for all types of operating systems. Citizens Union Foundation Gotham Gazette Topics NYC Books ... Donate THIS SITE Archives Index to Stories Corrections Site Map ... Sign Up For A Free E-mail Newsletter TOPICS Arts Children Civil Rights Community Development ... Waterfront LINKS ORGS NYC Government NYS Government US Government Advocates ... Think Tanks BOROS Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens ... Staten Island News Sites NY Times Daily News NY Post Newsday ... Demographics / This Month's Article Demographics Newsletter Sign up for the monthly Demographics newsletter: Full Name: Email: The Topic Demographics is the study of human populations, using statistics to describe conditions of life. Demographers consider a range of information about the size and density of populations, the ages of their members, and how populations change. Births, deaths, disease, marriages, divorces, immigration, economic standing, occupation, race, ethnic and country of origin all are subjects for the demographer. The Context New York City is unique and fascinating demographically. Recently, it has had large numbers of foreign immigrants arriving, many long-standing residents leaving, an increase in the gap between the rich and the poor, and a rise in the black middle class. It is a city of unique ethnic and racial diversity; it has a large older population. It was the home of many immigrants during the turn of the 20th Century. It was a destination for many African Americans from the Southern United States. Many residents of the City's suburbs fled New York City starting after World War II. In some areas of the city there is rapid growth fueled by immigrants and their children. Some areas are undergoing racial and ethnic transition; others are gentrifying. These trends are important for understanding the city and its evolution.

76. Immigration And Welfare Reform A number of current proposals dealing with welfare reform would restrict or Spending for GA and general medical assistance (GMA) programs would increase http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=4761&sequence=0

77. 7.30 Report - 16/8/2000: Govt Endorses Welfare Reports General Direction Govt endorses welfare report s general direction welfare reform is about removing barriers, it s about having a community believe in the social http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/stories/s164388.htm

Transcript Govt endorses welfare report's "general direction" KERRY O'BRIEN: After months of speculation, we now know the broad shape of the Howard Government's plans for reform of the welfare sector, impacting particularly on single parents and pensioners with disabilities. The McClure report, released today, recommends a single benefit for the vast majority of welfare recipients and extends the principle of mutual obligation to single parents and people with disabilities receiving government benefits. The principle driving the reforms is to persuade or compel people who are regarded as being capable of working to rejoin the work force or at least receive training to do so. The Opposition, the Democrats, and the welfare lobby have all accepted the broad principle of building bridges back into the work force for welfare recipients, but all have warned that their support would depend on how the reforms are delivered. In a few moments, we'll be hearing from Opposition welfare spokesman Wayne Swan, but I'm joined first in our Canberra studio by Family and Community Services Minister Senator Jocelyn Newman. KERRY O'BRIEN: Senator Newman, as I said, quite broad support in principle, even from the Opposition, but a lot of suspicion being expressed that you won't provide the money to do it properly.

78. WHCF Subject File - WE: Welfare general 60 pp. Material on welfare reform and attempts to develop a singe comprehensive welfare program, including the Income Supplement Program, http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/guides/Finding Aids/whcfwe.htm

WHCF Subject File - WE: Welfare According to the White House Central Files manual, this category was for "material pertaining to the welfare, environment and physical fitness of all people, developing community welfare services, family planning, national goals and social trends." Exceptions are: health (see HE ); Indians (see IN ); and veterans (see VA WE: Welfare Executive 1,600 pp. / General 1,800 pp. Material on welfare, the environment, and national growth, including but not limited to: public assistance programs, welfare reform, environmental policy, national growth policy, and the national growth and development report. The General File contains much routine children's mail. WE 1: Children Executive 150 pp. / General 175 pp. Material on the welfare of children, including: day care programs, child abuse, children's television, child nutrition programs, and the problems of handicapped and disadvantaged children. WE 1-1: Child Welfare Services Executive 275 pp. / General 125 pp. Material on welfare services for children, including: the Child and Family Services Act, day care center legislation, the care of South Vietnamese orphans, adoption, and the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program. WE 1-2: Crippled Children Services Executive 6 pp. / General 16 pp.

79. Michigan Welfare Reform Has Long Since Begun R L You have taken a national lead in welfare reform. back in 1991, was to scrap general Assistance to over 80000 welfare recipients. http://www.acton.org/publicat/randl/interview.php?id=151

80. Legislation Advisory Committee Report No. 8: Social Welfare Reform Bill (No.3) 29 The Social welfare reform Bill (No. 3) introduced a number of significant The Directorgeneral of Social welfare must have reason to suspect that a http://www.justice.govt.nz/lac/pubs/1994/report_8/chapter_2.html

LAC G uidelines W ... Links : Cabinet Office: Ma n ual Step ... Appendices Social Welfare Reform Bill (No.3) Introduction Power to Obtain Information Information Matching Programmes Privilege - Refusal to Disclose Information ... Legislative Outcome and Comments Introduction 29 The Social Welfare Reform Bill (No. 3) introduced a number of significant amendments to the Social Security Act 1964. In its submission on the Bill, the LAC was particularly concerned with the very wide powers that were to be conferred on the Director-General of Social Welfare to require any person to provide information to the Department of Social Welfare or a specified employee of the Department, and with the Director-General's powers to obtain information for matching purposes. 30 In brief, the Committee's submission considered: (a) the power to obtain information, as it would relate to privacy concerns and to the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, (b) information matching programmes, in relation to privacy concerns and to the need for consistency with other relevant legislation, (c) limitations on privileges to refuse to disclose information

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