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In 1997, Congress passed legislation creating the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), the first major federally funded health program to be established since Medicare and Medicaid were enacted in 1965. SCHIP, authorized by a new Title XXI in the Social Security Act, was designed to extend health insurance to approximately 40 percent

by: Dan Bloom, Mary Farrell, and Barbara Fink with Diana Adams-Ciardullo Submitted to: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children & Families Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation Project Officer: Michael Dubinsky

Contents Research Question and Methods Core Results Implications Directions for Future Research

Contents Data and Methods Results Policy Implications Areas for Future Research Limitations of This Study Conclusion

Content Findings from Existing Research Options for Future Research  

EXAMINING SUBSTITUTION: STATE STRATEGIES TO LIMIT CROWD OUT IN THE ERA OF CHILDREN’S HEALTH INSURANCE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

  ANALYSIS OF CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE PATTERNS: FINDINGS FROM THE SIPP   EXECUTIVE SUMMARY  

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    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services   Screening and Assessment in TANF/Welfare-to-Work: Ten Important Questions TANF Agencies and Their Partners Should Consider Executive Summary

Executive Summary The National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies Evaluating Two Welfare-to-Work Program Approaches: Two-Year Findings on the Labor Force Attachment and Human Capital Development Programs in Three Sites  

The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 requires the Department of Health and Human Services to prepare annual reports to Congress on indicators and predictors of welfare dependence. The 2002 Indicators of Welfare Dependence, the fifth annual report, provides welfare dependence indicators through 1999, reflecting changes that have taken place since ena

The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 requires the Department of Health and Human Services to prepare annual reports to Congress on indicators and predictors of welfare dependence. The 2003 Indicators of Welfare Dependence , the sixth annual report, provides welfare dependence indicators through 2000, reflecting changes that have taken place since e

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Barbara A. Ormond, Kirsten J. Black, Jane Tilly and Seema Thomas Urban Institute

Changes in children's health insurance coverage occur with far greater frequency than the modest year-to-year changes in the proportion uninsured or the proportion with different types of coverage would suggest. We present evidence that in the one-year period from July 1993 through June 1994 there were more than 23 million instances of children ch

Policy changes may have both positive and negative effects on programs that are not the primary target of the policy. Policymakers hope that the potential negative effects are minimized and do not outweigh the positive effects on the target program as well as on other programs. Analyzing the patterns of program utilization by children before and a

By: Fredrik Andersson, Julia Lane, Erika McEntarfer   This study examines the effect of employer characteristics, types of coworkers, and residential location in promoting the advancement of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients in the labor market. It is the first to use new, large integrated employer-employee data 

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The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 requires the Department of Health and Human Services to prepare annual reports to Congress on indicators and predictors of welfare dependence. The 2005 Indicators of Welfare Dependence , the eighth annual report, provides welfare dependence indicators through 2002, reflecting changes that have taken place since