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Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Rural Working Poor (1999)
Current status: This project will help us understand welfare outcomes in rural labor markets by studying the labor market characteristics of the rural working poor population and the impacts of various economic and public policy developments. The study examines the impacts on the rural working poor of welfare reform and economic expansion during t
Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. The Working Poor Population: Data Analysis on Definitions, Composition and Outcomes (1999)
Current status: This data analysis project compares different definitions of the working poor population based on variations in the definition of worker, definition of the poverty threshold, and definition of total income. The project, conducted by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., uses data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SI
Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Trends in the Demand for Assistance Services (1999)
Current status: People being removed from public assistance who have not found jobs or achieved self-sufficiency may become clients of emergency services such as soup kitchens and homeless shelters. In some cities, there are well-developed networks of private human services providers that collect data about their clients. This project studies the
Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Technical Assistance to Welfare Outcomes Grantees (1999)
Current Status: In FY 1999, ASPE procured a contractor, ORC Macro, to assist ASPE staff in providing technical assistance to both the FY 1998 and FY 1999 welfare outcomes grantees. The contractor's major task was to work with ASPE staff to coordinate two meetings of the grantees, held in Washington, DC, in Fall 1999 and Fall 2000. In carrying out
Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Follow-up on the Wisconsin Project for Tracking Former Welfare Recipients (1999)
Current status: In fiscal year 1997, ASPE funded the University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty to conduct an administrative data study of the outcomes of families who left AFDC in Wisconsin during 1995. The reports produced during the first study provided useful early results for the Department on the economic and employment outcom
Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A. FANS) (1999)
Current status: The L.A. FANS is a four-year longitudinal study by RAND of children, their families, and their neighborhoods in Los Angeles. While designed to answer broader research questions about the effects of neighborhoods on children, the study also is examining the effects of welfare reform at the neighborhood level. The study design includ
Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Supporting Families After Welfare Reform: Access to Medicaid, S-CHIP and Food Stamps (1999)
Current Status: ASPE, along with the Administration for Children and Families, the Health Care Financing Administration and USDA, contributed funding to a major $5.9 million initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to provide technical assistance and grants to states and large counties to improve their enrollment and redetermination proces