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Major Findings

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

Study findings emerged from several methods and data sources, including analyses of spending trends, econometric models of state spending on different types of social welfare functions, and the case studies of the six poor states (Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, South Carolina, and West Virginia). Five of the six case study states wer
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What Is Social Welfare Spending? And What Is

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. What Is Social Welfare Spending? And What Is State Fiscal Capacity?

For the purposes of the study, we defined social welfare spending as programs that supported lower-income households, typically, though not exclusively, programs with means tests.
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Key Findings

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

How does a state’s fiscal capacity affect its spending on social welfare programs? Do “poor states” (i.e., states with low fiscal capacity as measured by per capita personal income) differ from richer states in how much they spend on social welfare programs or how they allocate expenditures across cash assistance, Medicaid, and social servic
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Endnote

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

1 Because we are interested in the effects of state fiscal capacity on social welfare spending, we consider only spending that goes through the budgets of state and local governments, not direct expenditures by the federal government. Thus, we do not analyze the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), the Food Stamp Program (FSP), or, with some
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What We Found

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. What We Found

Several important findings emerged from the project:
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The Study

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

Conducted over 21 months, the study involved two major activities:
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Executive Summary

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

Social welfare programs strive to improve the well-being of needy and vulnerable populations. The fact that states spend different amounts on these programs is well known, but why they do so is less understood, including the extent to which differences are affected by states' relative fiscal capacity, defined as their ability to raise revenue thro
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Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and

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

Final Report July 2004 Prepared for: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Prepared by: The Lewin Group and its subcontractor The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government Contract No.: 282-98-0016; Task Order 34
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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 - Volume I

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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 - Volume II

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Housing Assistance and Supportive Services in

Housing Assistance and Supportive Services in Memphis

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Volume 2: Administration

Overview of the Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. Volume 2: Administration

Chapters Introduction:  An Overview of the Experiment Sample Selection Enrollment Rules of Operation Sample Control and Maintenance Benefit Payment Calculation and Administration Survey Instrument Design, Development, and Content Administration of Interview Payments Verification and Overpayment
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Volume 1: Design and Results

Overview of the Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. Volume 1: Design and Results

Part I:  HISTORY AND DESIGN Chapters Introduction and History Experimental Treatments and Expected Responses to Them Sample Selection and Distribution Issues in the Measurement of Experimental Effects The Payment System in SIME/DIME The Information System Summary Part II:  IMPLEMENTATION Chapters
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Appendix: Table of Contents of Final Report

Overview of the Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. Appendix: Table of Contents of Final Report

The interested reader is referred to the two-volume Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment (Washington, D.C.:  U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983) for a complete discussion of the design, administration, and results of SIME/DIME.  Below is the Table of Contents for that report.
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Footnotes

Overview of the Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. Footnotes

1.  These correspond to 95%, 120%, and 140% of the official poverty line for a family of four ($4,000 in 1971 dollars).  The relationship of these levels to the poverty line was preserved throughout the experimental period by adjusting the dollar guarantee levels regularly according to increases in the Consumer Price Index, as in the poverty lin
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Counseling/Training

Overview of the Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. Counseling/Training

With respect to the counseling/training subsidy results, two major points deserve emphasis.  Participation in both the counseling and training-education programs was strongly related to the amount of the subsidy.  Both the 50 percent and 100 percent subsidy plans induced statistically significant increases in formal schooling (although not work-
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Labor Supply

Overview of the Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. Labor Supply

The work responses to be expected from transfer programs of varying generosity are much more precisely know as a result of SIME/DIME than they were before.  It is now possible, as a consequence of the SIME/DIME labor supply analysis, to predict with some confidence how much more or less people will work as a result of new policy initiatives and w
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Marital Stability

Overview of the Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. Marital Stability

How can the SIME/DIME results be used as a guide to the possible effects on family structure of new public policy initiatives?  The analyst themselves "caution the reader against uncritically extrapolating from these or any other summary measure of the effects of SIME/DIME on marital dissolution." (11)   They stress as reasons for this statement
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Conclusions Suggested by the SIME/DIME Results

Overview of the Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. Conclusions Suggested by the SIME/DIME Results

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Effects on Marital Stability (9)

Overview of the Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. Effects on Marital Stability (9)

Although, as mentioned earlier, the experiment was not explicitly designed to test effects on marital stability, much attention was paid to the issue in terms of both data collection and analysis.  To the extent that the effects of the experiment on marital dissolution were expected to depend on the guarantee and the tax rate, and to the extent t

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