81. Welfare To Work - Maryland Cooperative Extension National Network for Family Resiliency welfare reform Page site (specific to federal jobs, but provides excellent general resources on welfareto-work) http://www.agnr.umd.edu/ces/FCS/w2w.html

Maryland Cooperative Extension FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES - MCE OFFICE Welfare to Work The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 MCE Home FCS Home Search AGNR Home Maryland Specific Resources Maryland State Department of Human Resources Summary of Maryland's State Plan (Federal Human Services Reform) Analysis of Welfare Reform Selected Features of State Welfare Plans (Children's Defense Fund) Maryland General Assembly Homepage State of Maryland information, compiled by the American Public Welfare Association Cooperative Extension Resources Single Parent Families in Poverty, Ohio State Bulletin Welfare-to-Work Transition, Ohio State bulletin CSREES Welfare Reform Web Site What Extension Can Offer to Welfare Reform National Network for Family Resiliency Welfare Reform Page National Network for Child Care's Welfare Reform Page Welfare Reform At A Glance Summary of Reform Bill, Children's Defense Fund Welfare Reform Summary Chart, Association of Administrators of Human Sciences (AAHS) and Board on Human Sciences (BOHS) Welfare Information Network,

82. Mickey S Welfare - Welfare Reform - Poverty Resources Poverty, welfare and welfare reform children and youth World Hunger Year - Hunger and Poverty News, general Hunger and Poverty Information, http://mickeys-place-in-the-sun.com/welfare.html

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83. Tying Marriage Vows To Welfare Reform Tying Marriage Vows to welfare reform Washington Post ^ 4/1/02 Amy Goldstein OK, yours is one vote for the general welfare Clause. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/657371/posts

Free Republic Home Browse Search ... Washington Post ^ Posted on 04/01/2002 8:38:37 AM PST by In six Michigan counties, single women on welfare who have a baby are required to take 24 hours of classes on how to be a good parent and "create a stable family." In West Virginia, 1,800 welfare families are being paid a $100 monthly bonus because the children are being raised by married parents. And Utah gives every couple that applies for a marriage license a free 20-minute video on "the three C's" for a strong relationship: commitment, communication and conflict-resolving skills. (Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com TOPICS: Culture/Society KEYWORDS: MARRIAGE WELFARE posted on 04/01/2002 8:38:38 AM PST by Post Reply Private Reply View Replies To: It's a shame taxpayers have to teach idiots how to marry and stary married. This movement would ruin the Marxist anti-family agenda, though. So I guess we'll just have to teach the idiots and hope they "catch on" to the deep, deep meaning. Geeeez. Liberals have to be really, really, stupid people. Who taught them to use the toilet?

84. LSC: 45 CFR 1639 Welfare Reform (Final Rule) An effort to reform a Federal or State welfare system includes all of the provisions, general Counsel Vice President for Legal Affairs April 18, 2002 http://www.lsc.gov/FOIA/frn/fr1639.htm

April 18, 2002 FOIA Handbook FOIA Electronic Public Reading Room FOIA FAQ LSC Act ... Federal Register Notices Download FOIA Handbook: Word Document PDF ELECTRONIC READING ROOM Final Rule 45 CFR Part 1639 Welfare Reform SUMMARY: This Final Rule amends the Legal Services Corporation’s rule relating to limitations on grantee activities challenging or seeking reform of a welfare system. The main change, to delete the prohibition on the representation of an individual seeking welfare benefits if any such representation involves an effort to amend or otherwise challenge existing law, is necessitated to conform the regulation to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Legal Services Corporation v. Velazquez, et al. A definition of a term only used in the now deleted phrase is also being deleted. DATES : This final rule is effective May 20, 2002. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT : Mattie C. Condray, Senior Assistant General Counsel, Office of Legal Affairs, Legal Services Corporation, 750 First Street, N.E., Washington, DC 20002-4250; 202-336-8817; mcondray@lsc.gov.

85. Oxford University Press: Flat Broke With Children: Sharon Hays . Hailed as a great success, welfare reform resulted in a dramatic decline in...... one of the Outstanding Books for the general Reader for 2003. http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Sociology/SocialIssuesWelfareState

86. The Forum | Health Effects Of Welfare Reform On Children With Chronic Illness Lauren A. Smith (Boston Medical Center, Division of general Pediatrics) The specific objectives are 1) description of the welfare reform experience of http://www.researchforum.org/project_general_138.html

Overview of Programs Program Components Children Special Populations ... Research Database Health Effects of Welfare Reform on Children with Chronic Illness General Information View a brief abstract of this project. View a complete, printer-friendly profile of this project. Evaluator(s) Boston Medical Center, Division of General Pediatrics Investigator(s) Paul H. Wise ( Boston Medical Center, Division of General Pediatrics Lauren A. Smith ( Boston Medical Center, Division of General Pediatrics Domain Income Security/TANF Status Completed with continuing analysis Duration Jun 1998 - Dec 1999 Type Research and/or Program Evaluation Program/Policy Description Since children make up the majority of TANF recipients, we believe that it is crucial to consider how welfare reform may affect them. We are focusing on children with the chronic illnesses of asthma and sickle cell anemia since this population is potentially more vulnerable than other children. We are specifically interested in monitoring two provisions of welfare reform in Massachusetts - work requirements and the 2 year time limit - because we believe that these provisions may have a substantial impact on families. The specific objectives are: 1) description of the welfare reform experience of families with children aged 3-16 years who have asthma or sickle cell anemia; 2) assessment of children's health status in relation to welfare experience, including work requirements, and work status of their primary caretaker; and 3) assessment of children's health status before and after benefit termination.

87. Promoting The General Welfare Debate continues to rage over the effects of welfare reform, how to make it work or how The Constitution is careful to speak of the general welfare. http://www.projecthome.org/AboutUs/newsletters/may/promote.html

DWELLING PLACE The Newsletter of Project H.O.M.E. May 1997 Promoting The General Welfare The root crisis in our debate on welfare reform is that we have lost this profound vision of "the general welfare." We have adopted a truncated definition of welfare that intrinsically polarizes "us versus "them." Our tax dollars going to support those poor people. Any policy predicated on such a corrupted understanding of welfare will have grievous consequences for our national health not just for poor persons in need of social support, but for all of us. We need a new conversation about welfare. We need to recapture the original vision of a common welfare that is a central purpose of our national experiment. Unless we learn how to fare well together, we will ultimately all fare badly.

88. USIA, U.S. Society And Values, January 1997 - Donna Shalala On Welfare Reform In 1964, the US Surgeon general reported that smoking was linked to lung cancer, This further increases the likelihood that welfare reform will succeed, http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0197/ijse/dona.htm

WELFARE REFORM: WE MUST ALL ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY By Donna E. Shalala In this article, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) outlines the key provisions of the 1996 welfare reform act written by the U.S. Congress and revised by the Clinton Administration underscoring the partnerships among all levels of government and between the public and private sectors upon which the success of welfare reform hinges. In War and Peace, Tolstoy observed, regarding the limits of policy making, that Napoleon thought he was controlling events but events were controlling Napoleon. The essence of Tolstoy's insight is that no policy can fully predict or control human behavior. That lesson in humility is especially apparent to policy makers grappling with welfare reform. In many policy debates, research plays an important, even decisive, role. The U.S. Government banned DDT (a widely-used pesticide) because of overwhelming evidence that it was a carcinogen. In 1964, the U.S. Surgeon General reported that smoking was linked to lung cancer, paving the way for warning labels on cigarettes. In 1996, HHS issued a report from the Surgeon General about the benefits of regular, moderate physical activity, which was based on a review of two decades of research. And good social-science research has helped shape our policies on immunization, breast cancer, nutrition, drugs, Head Start programs, tobacco use among children, and health-care reform.

89. Welfare Reform And Housing welfare reform Beyond Brief 16, by Rebecca Swartz and Brian Miller (March 2002) for those families and for the general objectives of welfare reform. http://www.brook.edu/es/research/projects/wrb/publications/pb/pb16.htm

Brookings Economic Studies Welfare Reform and Beyond News Releases ... Site Map Welfare Reform and Housing by Rebecca Swartz and Brian Miller March 2002 Full document in PDF mailhide2('feedback', 'brookings', 'edu', 'Welfare Reform and Housing') ABSTRACT Housing is more than bricks and mortar. It is a key factor in determining a family's access to economic and educational opportunities, exposure to violence and environmental hazards, and ability to accumulate financial assets. Too few low-income families reap the positive benefits of living in stable and reasonably priced housing, and many frequently move in and out of undesirable or unsustainable housing. This lack of stable housing can create difficulties for parents trying to retain employment and can increase the likelihood that their children will have problems in school. In this policy brief, we provide an overview of the current state of housing for low-income families, describe some current government interventions, and analyze a range of proposed housing reforms that Congress should consider as it debates reauthorization of the 1996 welfare reform law. Housing Needs of Low-Income Families Roughly 20 percent of all middle- to low-income households in the U.S., over 13 million in all, live in substandard housing or pay more than half of their income in housing costs, well above the affordability standard of 30 percent of gross income established by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Whereas housing quality was the major housing problem in the decades leading up to the 1970s, today the leading problem for low-income families is affordability. While it is no surprise that poor families are disproportionately unable to afford housing, it may be surprising that more than 85 percent of renter households with incomes below 30 percent of area median income (AMI) spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing, with well over half of them spending more than 50 percent of their income on housing (figure 1, bar graph on far right).

90. Welfare Reform - Number 7, January 1999 general Accounting Office. welfare reform States are Restructuring Programs to Reduce welfare Dependence. GAO/HEHS98-109. 1998. http://srdc.msstate.edu/publications/reform07.htm

Box 9656 410 Bost Extension Building Mississippi State, MS 39762 Phone: (662) 325-3207 FAX: (662) 325-8915 Site Map Welfare Reform - Number 7, January 1999 Information Brief Number 7 January 1999 A Special Series on Welfare Reform in the South Counting Cases: Changes in Welfare Recipiency Since 1993 Julie N. Zimmerman University of Kentucky Nationwide, the number of welfare recipients has been declining. While some may herald these declines as evidence of the success of welfare reform, the declines began before the new welfare legislation. Some research indicates that these caseload declines are the result of federal waivers obtained prior to the welfare reform legislation (i.e. Council of Economic Advisors, 1997). Other research has indicated that the declines are the result of good economic times (i.e. Martini and Wiseman, 1997). Using data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website, this article examines the regional distribution of declining welfare recipiency. In this, dramatic changes have been underway in the South. How Do We Define Success?

91. Welfare To Work: Considerations For Adult And Vocational Education Programs. ERI general Accounting Office. welfare reform ASSESSING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VARIOUS welfareTO-WORK APPROACHES. Washington, DC GAO, September 1999. http://www.ericdigests.org/2001-1/welfare.html

Site Links Home Search for ERIC Digests Privacy Policy Resources for Library Instruction ... Information Literacy Blog Welfare to Work: Considerations for Adult and Vocational Education Programs. ERIC Digest. by Imel, Susan RELATED ISSUES A number of issues are related to the current context of welfare-to-work programming. Two discussed here are legislation/policy and the role of education in the work-first environment. LEGISLATION AND POLICY PRWORA, the primary federal legislation driving welfare reform, created Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) for providing block grants to states. Compared to its predecessors, TANF established greater work requirements for all parents, regardless of the ages of their children and also placed a 5-year lifetime limit on receiving aid (GAO 1999). Although states must meet minimum federal requirements for the work participation rates of their welfare recipients, they are given latitude in what can be counted as work (Hayes 1999). An additional piece of federal legislation affecting the development of programs for welfare recipients is the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). Passed in 1998, it consolidates over 70 work force programs and gives states the flexibility to partner with local governments to develop streamlined services that provide universal access to education and training (Imel 2000). The flexibility offered states by these pieces of federal legislation has led to great variation in both state legislation and policies related to TANF recipients (Grubb et al. 1999; Hayes 1999). Some statesfor example, Illinoisare using their own funds to support welfare recipients and therefore setting back the clock on the time limits imposed by PRWORA (Hayes 1999). Others, such as Wisconsin, have developed creative approaches that combine work first with a human capital strategy (Grubb et al. 1999). Unfortunately, innovative and creative approaches have not been the norm so that "in the push to move people into work, many states have made education within welfare reform a secondary consideration" (Hayes 1999, p. 7).

92. Summary Report -- Fall 1996 in an Era of welfare reform In general, child support is a fairly small component of family income. So the ability of child support to substitute http://www.human.cornell.edu/faculty/summrpt_f96.html

New York State College Human Ecology Fall 1996 P olicy P erspectives Supporting Children in an Era of Welfare Reform S UMMARY R EPORT The Demography of New York: Families and Work Thomas Hirschl, Associate Professor, Rural Sociology Cornell University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences This paper addresses several key demographic trends affecting children and families in New York, and how these trends intersect with the welfare reform bill signed by President Clinton several months ago. This reform is intended to move families from welfare to employment, and it stipulates that a fixed percentage of the county caseload must find work or the states or counties will face financial penalty. A potential problem with the plan is that unless recipients improve their educational status, it will be difficult for them to find steady work. Before turning to this question of work and welfare, I will first review recent trends in family structure. The family is the main source of support for children, and the welfare system was initially set up to support families. Examination of the family status of children in New York state from 1970 to 1990 (Figure 1) shows a decline in married couple families and a subsequent increase toward single parent families. There are two factors that could explain this shift. First, some would contend that the rise in single parent (mostly female headed) households is actually caused by the availability of welfare assistance. The evidence for this position is weak, but it is hard to completely discount. Second, there has been a radical disappearance of jobs that pay adequate wages for individuals with less than a high school. Unless one has at least a high school diploma (and better yet, a college degree), it is extremely difficult to earn enough to support a family. Consequently certain men are not in a financial position to support a family, and women decide to "go it alone."

93. Almanac Of Policy Issues: Social Welfare Much of America s welfare state remained largely unchanged after that until and President Clinton signed, a sweeping welfare reform law that is still http://www.policyalmanac.org/social_welfare/index.shtml

Almanac of Policy Issues Home Search Policy Archive Social Welfare America's social safety net has expanded dramatically over the past 100 years. At the turn of the last century, Americans still viewed themselves as "rugged individualists." Families, local communities, and charities (often religiously based) formed the backbone of the social safety net of the time. The Great Depression of the 1930s changed much of that. President Frankin D. Roosevelt's New Deal established Social Security in 1935 and inaugurated the modern day federal welfare program with a modest small program called Aid to Dependent Children (ADC). The next great expansion came during the Johnson administration in the 1960s, when Medicare, Medicaid, public housing, and other programs were established. Much of America's welfare state remained largely unchanged after that until August of 1996, when a Republican Congress passed, and President Clinton signed, a sweeping welfare reform law that is still the subject of much controversy in public policy circles. Conservatives celebrate its sweeping work requirements and the dramatic decline in welfare caseloads that occurred in its aftermath. Liberals counter that most of the positive changes that occurred have been due to an improved economy and low unemployment. They point out that national poverty rates have not declined as much as welfare rolls, and express concern about what will happen when the economy loses steam.

94. Medill School Of Journalism - Northwestern University A student challenged Shalala as to whether the 1996 welfare reform law, which set time limits and work requirements, truly reflected traditional Democratic http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/medill/inside/news/shalala_jury_out_on_welfar

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95. Wfn.org | Advisory Committee Examines Impact Of Welfare Reform 30October-1997 97410 Advisory Committee Examines Impact of welfare reform the Presbyterian Church (USA)s national consultation on welfare reform Nov. http://www.wfn.org/1997/11/msg00029.html

From the Worldwide Faith News archives www.wfn.org Advisory Committee Examines Impact of Welfare Reform From PCUSA.NEWS@pcusa.org Date 02 Nov 1997 05:52:31 http://www.pcusa.org Browse month Browse month (sort by Source) WFN Home

96. Nat'l Academies Discovery Engine Link to Catalog page for Evaluating welfare reform in an Era of Transition Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and EducationsGeneral http://lab.nap.edu/nap-cgi/discover.cgi?term=welfare reform&restric=NAP&

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