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Promoting Public Benefits Access Through Web-

Promoting Public Benefits Access Through Web-Based Tools and Outreach: A National Scan of Efforts

By: Jacqueline Kauff, Emily Sama-Miller, and Elizabeth Makowsky Mathematica Policy Research This report provides an overview of benefits access initiatives in every state and of major, privately-developed, benefits access initiatives. Contents Volume I:  Background, Efforts in Brief, and Related Initiatives      PDF format
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Disconnected Low-Income Men

Disconnected Low-Income Men

A large number of U.S. men of prime working age are neither gainfully employed nor pursuing education or other training, suggesting a potentially significant disconnection from mainstream economic and social life. The Urban Institute, funded by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human S
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Housing Assistance and Supportive Services in

Housing Assistance and Supportive Services in Memphis

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Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2000. Microsoft Word version of report (contains raw data for tables)

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Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2001 . Microsoft Word version of report (contains raw data for tables)

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Summary of an Urban Ethnographers’ Symposium on

Summary of an Urban Ethnographers’ Symposium on Low-Income Men

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Approaches to Low-Income Energy Assistance

Approaches to Low-Income Energy Assistance Funding in Selected States

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Information on Poverty and Income Statistics: A

Information on Poverty and Income Statistics: A Summary of 2012 Current Population Survey Data

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Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2004

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Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2002

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Poverty Estimates in the ACS and Other Income

Poverty Estimates in the ACS and Other Income Surveys: What is the Impact of Methodology

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Review of Income Concepts Used in Economic

Review of Income Concepts Used in Economic Analysis

Prepared by: R. William Thomas Abt Associates Prepared for: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Contract:   HEW-100-76-0179 Each chapter of the Report is in PDF format.  Download a copy of the reader .
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Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 1998

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

1 Information in this section is from Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government field reports written by John Hall et. al. (1997 and 2002) , public documents, and interviews with state officials.
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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

West Virginia spends more on its Medicaid program than any other single area of the state budget except for elementary and secondary education. Several state officials characterized the Medicaid program as an integral part of the West Virginia's health care system. It funds approximately 55 percent of the state's births. West Virginia's Medicaid p
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West Virginia's Response to Federal Welfare

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. West Virginia's Response to Federal Welfare Reform(3)

West Virginia's response to federal welfare reform encompassed three phases. In the first phase, West Virginia officials designed the state's early TANF program to reduce caseloads to minimize financial risks associated with the new block grant structure of TANF and federal penalties for not meeting federal work participation rates. The state expe
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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

West Virginia's executive budgeting model provides the governor and executive agencies with much authority in budget development and implementation. Significant gubernatorial authority includes sole responsibility for establishing revenue estimates, line item veto, and the ability to extend the legislature's regular session if they do not enact a
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West Virginia

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

Population (July 2003): 1.8 Million Total State Expenditures - SFY 2002: $8,150 Million (US Total: $1,073,816 Million) TANF Expenditures - SFY 2002 (% of total): 2.5 % (US: 1.3%) Medicaid Expenditures - SFY 2002 (% of total): 19.8 % (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 state's Medicaid program plays a central role in South Carolina. It provides benefits to 20 percent of the population-including 40 percent of all children-and pays for 50 percent of all births. One-third of the state's senior citizens receive support from the program, and 75 percent of all nursing home beds are paid for by Medicaid.
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South Carolina's Response to Federal Welfare

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

South Carolina's welfare reform program - known as the Family Independence Program (FIP) - was implemented in October 1996 as an AFDC waiver. The waiver remained in effect until September 2003. The cash assistance program is limited in duration to 24 months out of 10 years and no more than 60 months in a lifetime. To qualify, a family of two must

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