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Figure ECON 8. Percentage of Households Classified as Food Insecure: 1999 Source: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, ERS, calculations using data August 1998 CPS Food Security Supplement.

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.  This 2001 Indicators of Welfare Dependence , the fourth annual report, is the first report to provide welfare dependency indicators for the 1996-1998 period, reflecting

It is of critical importance to understand the policy and program context that may surround changes in welfare dependence over time. As noted throughout this report, between-state, within-state and across-time variations are already happening as a result of the PRWORA provisions and are anticipated to become more diverse. Changes are expected in e

Although the abundance of program options presents a challenge to any data collection system, it is clear that the collection and reporting of state data on the nature and amount of assistance provided to eligible families under TANF will be much more valuable and descriptive of welfare receipt than national survey data alone 2 . The administrativ

The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 declared that its purpose was "to provide the public with generally accepted measures of welfare receipt so that it can track such receipt over time and determine whether progress is being made in reducing the rate at which and, to the extent feasible, the degree to which, families depend on income from welfare p

Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was established by the Social Security Act of 1935 as a grant program to enable states to provide cash welfare payments for needy children who had been deprived of parental support or care because their father or mother was absent from the home, incapacitated, deceased, or unemployed. All 50 states, t

Figure BIRTH 4. Percentage of All Children Living in Families with a Never-Married Female Head, by Race/Ethnicity: 1982-2003

State Peak Caseload Oct ‘89 to Sept ’02 Date Peak Occurred Oct ’89 to Sept ’02 Sept ’96 Caseload Sept ’02 Caseload Percent Decline 1 Sept ’96 to Sept ’02 Percent Decline Peak to Sept ’02 1 Negative values denote percent increase.

Figure BIRTH 4. Percentage of All Children Living in Families with a Never-Married Female Head, by Race: 1982-2002

The Welfare Indicators Act specifies that the annual welfare indicators reports shall include analyses of families and individuals receiving assistance under three means-tested benefit programs: the program of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act (replaced with the Temporary Assistance

The Welfare Indicators Act challenges the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to identify and set forth not only indicators of welfare dependence and welfare duration but also predictors and causes of welfare receipt. However, welfare research has not established clear and definitive causes of welfare dependence. Instead, it has identifie

  Westat Abstract

September 2014   RTI International Abstract

Evaluation Design Options for the Long-Term Care Registered Apprenticeship Program Executive Summary Joshua M. Wiener, Ph.D., and Wayne L. Anderson, Ph.D. RTI International Daniel Kuehn, M.P.P., and Robert Lerman, Ph.D. Urban Institute September 2011

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Contents Research Questions and Methodology Current Use of Vouchers in the CCDF and TANF Programs Key Findings and Implications Areas for Further Exploration