Content by Keyword: Welfare Reform/Welfare-to-Work

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The Cost of Subsidized Child Care: 2005-2016

The Cost of Subsidized Child Care: 2005-2016

This research brief presents findings using national data from child care subsidy administrative records that states submit to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The analysis shows that a greater percentage of subsidized care occurred in licensed child care centers in FY 2016 than in FY 2005.
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TANF "Leavers", Applicants, and

TANF "Leavers", Applicants, and Caseload Studies

This is the ASPE-sponsored web site on Temporary Assistance for Needy Family (TANF) \"leavers\", applicants, caseload studies, and other state studies of welfare outcomes. This site has been developed to provide technical assistance to ASPE-funded grantees and other researchers, background on the ASPE-funded grants to states and counties, access
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Selected Publications From This Evaluation

Moving People from Welfare to Work. Lessons from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies.. Selected Publications From This Evaluation

Moving People from Welfare to Work: Lessons from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies . Prepared by Gayle Hamilton, MDRC, 2002. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families and Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation; and U.S. Department of Educatio
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State Implementation of Major Changes to Welfare

State Implementation of Major Changes to Welfare Policies, 1992 - 1998

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Role of Intermediaries in Linking TANF Recipients

Role of Intermediaries in Linking TANF Recipients with Jobs: Final Report

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Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection

Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues

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Rural Working Poor (1999)

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
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The Working Poor Population: Data Analysis on

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
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Trends in the Demand for Assistance Services (

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
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Technical Assistance to Welfare Outcomes Grantees

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
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Follow-up on the Wisconsin Project for Tracking

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
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Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A.

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
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Supporting Families After Welfare Reform: Access

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
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Welfare Reform and Its Implications for Persons

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Welfare Reform and Its Implications for Persons with Disabilities (1998)

Current Status: This project is a supplement to an ongoing four-year study of the implications of welfare reform for low-income families living in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio (a summary of the study is available at < http://www.jhu.edu/~welfare> ). The broader study is being undertaken by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, Pennsyl
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Welfare Reform and the Health and Economic Status

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Welfare Reform and the Health and Economic Status of Immigrants and the Organizations that Serve Them (1998 and 1999)

Current Status: ASPE and other federal agencies contributed funds in 1998 and 1999 to award a grant to the Urban Institute to deepen our understanding of the impact of recent changes in Federal laws on immigrant families and children by conducting a large-scale study of immigrants and their communities in Los Angeles and New York City. See Resul
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Research Grants on Welfare Outcomes (1999)

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Research Grants on Welfare Outcomes (1999)

Current status: ASPE awarded approximately $807,000 in grants in FY 1999 to support seven researcher-initiated proposals to study important questions related to the outcomes of welfare reform. Through these grants, we are supporting efforts to analyze a variety of information about low-income individuals (both adults and children) and their famili
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Grants to States and Localities to Study Welfare

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Grants to States and Localities to Study Welfare Reform Outcomes, with an Emphasis on Diversion (1999)

Current status: One of the Congress's major objectives in providing welfare outcomes money to ASPE over the last several years is to measure outcomes for a broad population of low-income families, welfare recipients, former recipients, potential recipients, and other special populations affected by state TANF policies, including diversion practice
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Continuation of 1998 Grants to States and

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Continuation of 1998 Grants to States and Localities to Study Welfare Outcomes (1998 and 1999)

Thirteen states and large counties received funding in September 1998 to study the outcomes of welfare reform on individuals and families who leave welfare. Some of the grants also included studies of families who applied for cash welfare but never enrolled and families who appear to be eligible but not enrolled. See < http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/l
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Update on Other Continuing Projects Funded by the

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Update on Other Continuing Projects Funded by the FY 1998 and FY 1999 Appropriations to Study Welfare Outcomes/Leavers

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Other New Projects

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Other New Projects

How Low-Wage Working Families Cope as Parents and Workers

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