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Mississippi's Response to Federal Welfare

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. Mississippi's Response to Federal Welfare Reform

Mississippi began to reform its welfare programs with passage of a bill in late 1992, though its AFDC waiver request was not approved by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services until mid-1995. The waivers involved two programs, Work First and Work Encouragement. Work First, the larger program, made benefits contingent on fulfilling work requi
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State Budget Development and Implementation

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. State Budget Development and Implementation

The governorship has traditionally been weak in Mississippi. The office has no line item veto power. Thus, even though the state legislature only meets 90 days per session in the early spring, the legislature has long played the dominant role in developing and enacting the budget. However, the governor has significant control over its implementati
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Mississippi

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. Mississippi

Population (July 2003): 2.9 Million Total State Expenditures - SFY 2002: $10,521 Million (US Total: $1,073,816 Million) TANF Expenditures - SFY 2002 (% of total): 0.7 % (US: 1.3%) Medicaid Expenditures - SFY 2002 (% of total): 26% (US: 20.8%) (Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau and NASBO 2002 State Expenditure Report)
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Other Federal Social Welfare Programs

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. Other Federal Social Welfare Programs

Louisiana's Medicaid and LaCHIP (Louisiana's SCHIP program) programs are administered by the Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH). The number of Medicaid enrollees including LaCHIP, increased 17 percent from 1997 to 2002. This enrollment increase was primarily for children, due to the successful outreach efforts to enroll them in LaCHIP. In SF
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Louisiana's Response to Federal Welfare

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. Louisiana's Response to Federal Welfare Reform

Louisiana's TANF and childcare programs are administered by the Office of Family Support within the Department of Social Services (DSS) and the state's child welfare, adoption, and foster care programs are administered by the Office of Community Services, also within the DSS. In 2001, the TANF Executive Office of Oversight and Evaluation was estab
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State Budget Development and Implementation

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. State Budget Development and Implementation

In 1987, Louisiana moved from line item budgeting to program budgeting, and since 1997, it has implemented a performance-based budgeting system. The governor's office sets priorities and budget strategies. The legislature is not an independent body by practice, and is influenced by the governor, who carries line-item veto power. Political parties
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Louisiana

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. Louisiana

Population (July 2003): 4.5 Million Total State Expenditures - SFY 2002: $17,608 Million (US Total: $1,073,816 Million) TANF Expenditures - SFY 2002 (% of total): 0.8 % (US: 1.3%) Medicaid Expenditures - SFY 2002 (% of total): 26.8% (US: 20.8%) (Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau and NASBO 2002 State Expenditure Report)
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Other Federal Social Welfare Programs

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. Other Federal Social Welfare Programs

The impact of Proposition 204 on Arizona's Medicaid program was the most significant issue for non-TANF social welfare programs when we interviewed state officials. The citizen initiative expanded Medicaid eligibility from 36 percent of the 1992 federal poverty level to 100 percent of the current federal poverty level, and allocated tobacco settle
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Arizona's Response to Federal Welfare Reform

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. Arizona's Response to Federal Welfare Reform(1)

Arizona initiated its welfare reform efforts in late 1995 through waivers from the federal government. The state's EMPOWER program, (Employing and Moving People Off Welfare and Encouraging Responsibility), included requirements under consideration for federal welfare reform including time-limited cash assistance, automatic sanctions for not meetin
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State Budget Development and Implementation

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. State Budget Development and Implementation

Arizona slowly transitioned from an annual to biennial budget in the 1990s. In 2002, the state returned to an annual budget cycle for larger state agencies including the Department of Economic Security (TANF, Food Stamps, child care, child welfare, adoption, foster care, and child support enforcement) and the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment S
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Arizona

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. Arizona

Population (July 2003): 5.6 Million Total State Expenditures - SFY 2002: $18,983 Million (US Total: $1,073,816 Million) TANF Expenditures - SFY 2002 (% of total): 0.7% (US: 1.3%) Medicaid Expenditures - SFY 2002 (% of total): 19% (US: 20.8%) (Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau and NASBO 2002 State Expenditure Report)
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State Narratives

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. State Narratives

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Methodology

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. Methodology

As noted in Section II.C., Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, South Carolina, and West Virginia were selected for further analysis using a three-step process that examined measures of state fiscal capacity and need for social welfare services. Staff from the Rockefeller Institute of Government and The Lewin Group spent approximately thre
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Fiscal Capacity and Need Measures

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. Fiscal Capacity and Need Measures

Per capita personal income data suggest that the six states selected for analysis have less potential to raise revenue than most states. As noted in Exhibit Appendix B-1, Mississippi and West Virginia rank the lowest in ability to raise revenue in 1995 and 2001, 50 and 49 respectively, using per capita personal income as the measure of fiscal capa
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Field Visit Documentation

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. Field Visit Documentation

The study "Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States" examined the policies, institutions, and processes of six states with low fiscal capacity and high social needs to better understand how these states make decisions in funding social welfare programs, and to identify factors that influence their social welfare spending. The si
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Appendix B: Field Visit Documentation

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. Appendix B: Field Visit Documentation

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Appendix A

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. Appendix A

[This appendix is only available in a PDF version (Adobe's Portable Document Format). If you want a printed copy or need help with accessibility, please contact us .]
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References

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. References

Barrilleaux, C. J., & Miller, M. E. (1988). The political economy of state Medicaid policy. American Political Science Review, 82, 1089 107. Boyd, D., Billen, P., Rockefeller Institute of Government, Dearborn, P., & Brookings Institution. (2003). The fiscal effects of welfare reform: State social service spending before and after welf
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Chapter V: Final Observations and Conclusions

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. Chapter V: Final Observations and Conclusions

Our econometric analyses and case studies of six poor states led us to several conclusions regarding state fiscal capacity and state spending on social welfare:
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Endnotes

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. Endnotes

30 In 2004, after the case studies were completed, Mississippi enacted program changes that may eliminate eligibility for 65,000 Medicaid recipients, mostly elderly and disabled people. Although most of these recipients were eligible for Medicare benefits, some estimates indicated that about 5,000 were not. However, the strong political reaction

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