1. Welfare Reform Analysis And Summaries Sponsored by the Welfare Information Network. State welfare reform analysis and Summaries http://www.iwin.org/illinoisextra.htm

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Illinois Welfare Information Network Home Search About IFDM Site Map ... Go To TFP IWIN Issue Pages Back to IWIN Home Page Illinois Specific Data and Research Findings Illinois State Plans and Laws Illinois State Specific Programs ... State Welfare Reform Analysis and Summaries If you have any questions about the content of this page, please email us at welfinfo@welfareinfo.org General Resources Hot Topics Event Calendar Publications by The Finance Project ... www.financeproject.org. 1401 New York Avenue, NW Suite 800 Washington, DC 20005 Tel. 202-587-1000 Fax. 202-628-4205 Welfare Reform Analysis and Summaries 1998-1999 Illinois Kids Count: Putting It All Together , Voices for Illinois Children. This report examines federal and state welfare reform and documents emerging research. Basics of Illinois Welfare Law: The Illinois TANF Program and Other Related Programs , National Center on Poverty Law, January 1999. To order click here . A new 118-page manual (plus appendices) includes detailed information about all of the major public benefits programs in Illinois. Each section includes references to relevant statutes, regulations, Illinois Department of Human Services manual sections and releases, and that agency's policy memoranda. Explaining TANF- Illinois Department of Human Services Final TANF Regulations: Regulation Highlights and Their Importance for Illinois , National Center on Poverty Law, May 2, 1999.

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Illinois Welfare Information Network Home Search About IFDM Site Map ... Go To TFP IWIN Issue Pages Back to IWIN Home Page Illinois Specific Data and Research Findings Illinois State Plans and Laws Illinois State Specific Programs ... State Welfare Reform Analysis and Summaries If you have any questions about the content of this page, please email us at welfinfo@welfareinfo.org General Resources Hot Topics Event Calendar Publications by The Finance Project ... www.financeproject.org. 1401 New York Avenue, NW Suite 800 Washington, DC 20005 Tel. 202-587-1000 Fax. 202-628-4205 Welfare Reform Analysis and Summaries State Welfare Reform Analysis and Summaries 1998-1999 Illinois Kids Count: Putting It All Together , Voices for Illinois Children. This report examines federal and state welfare reform and documents emerging research. Basics of Illinois Welfare Law: The Illinois TANF Program and Other Related Programs , National Center on Poverty Law, January 1999. To order click here . A new 118-page manual (plus appendices) includes detailed information about all of the major public benefits programs in Illinois. Each section includes references to relevant statutes, regulations, Illinois Department of Human Services manual sections and releases, and that agency's policy memoranda. Explaining TANF- Illinois Department of Human Services Final TANF Regulations: Regulation Highlights and Their Importance for Illinois , National Center on Poverty Law, May 2, 1999.

4. Changes, Challenges, Choices--Welfare Reform Analysis Analysis of Federal Welfare Reform. On July 31, the US House approvedthe welfare reform conference bill, HR 3734, by a vote of 328 http://www.cppp.org/products/policyanalysis/ccc.html

Analysis of Federal Welfare Reform Following is an in-depth summary of each of the major components of the bill. Cash Assistance Provisions: New federal provisions that will apply in Texas: AFDC, JOBS and Emergency Assistance are combined in the new TANF block grant. States will receive fixed funding. AFDC entitlement ended. States must deny benefits to certain populations including, but not limited to: teen parents not in school; teen parents not living at home or in adult-supervised settings; those convicted of drug felonies after date of enactment. Texas waiver provisions that will likely take precedence over new federal bill: Time limits Personal responsibility statement Pilot projects Eligibility changes HR 3734 contains many provisions related to the current Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program and the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) training program which have the potential to dramatically change how states operate their welfare and job training programs. However, the extent to which the bill will be enacted in every state is not clear because a provision in the bill will allow federally-approved state initiatives to take precedence over the new federal law. This provision allows states with welfare waivers (i.e. permission from the federal government to operate innovative state welfare and work-training programs for welfare recipients) granted prior to October 1, 1996, to continue operating under their waiver to the extent that the new federal provisions are inconsistent with the waiver.

5. Children And Welfare Reform: Analysis And Recommendations Children and welfare reform analysis and Recommendations . Margie K.Shields and Richard E. Behrman The Future of Children (a publication http://nieer.org/docs/index.php?DocID=22

6. Welfare Reform Analysis welfare reform analysis Are there any thorough analyses of the provisions of the recently passed welfare reform legislation floating about? While I have a couple, I'm sure there are others. welfare reform analysis. To mealtalk@nal.usda.gov. Subject welfare reform analysis. From earl@ific.health.org (Robert http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/mealtalk/msg00625.html

Date Index Thread Index Welfare reform analysis To mealtalk@nal.usda.gov Subject : Welfare reform analysis From earl@ific.health.org (Robert Earl) Date : Wed, 14 Aug 1996 08:59:04 -0400 Sender : owner-mealtalk Are there any thorough analyses of the provisions of the recently passed welfare reform legislation floating about? While I have a couple, I'm sure there are others. I need to prepare a summary of the provisions of and effect of the new law. Other meattalkers might benefit from this information also, so please post the information to the group. Thanks in advance. Robert Earl, MPH, RD Director of Public Health International Food Information Council earl@ific.health.org Index(es): Main Thread

7. Faith-Based Social Welfare: A Constitutional Crises, Analysis Of Underlying Legi Presents an in depth analysis of the implications and probable impact of faith based welfare reform and its root charitable choice legeslation, against the reform movement and its antecedent charitable choice clause. http://constitution-first.org

A Pledge of Allegiance Faith-Based Welfare Reform: A Constitutional Crises Established March 2002 (Updated 20 March 2003) Welfare reform has been one of the centerpieces of President Bush’s domestic agenda since the onset of his administration. This was evident in the creation of key legislation and supporting executive orders designed to place government money into the hands of “faith-based” charity organizations. This legislation, if enacted, would liberally empower religions charities with the authority to administer government funded welfare programs. Prior to the September eleventh terrorist attacks, this legislation had successfully passed the House of Representatives by a relatively narrow margin and was consequently forwarded to the Senate for consideration ( source Priorities in Washington shifted dramatically after September eleven and the legislation was consequently sidelined for the time being, but eventually it will come under review again. The probable long run impacts of this "faith-based" legislation make it some of the most provocative law making that has ever been proposed. The immediate hour of debate may have already been lost, as the legislation is in great danger of gaining senate approval in some amended form. In such case, opposing factions will have no other recourse but to petition the Supreme Court and otherwise settle in for a long hard struggle. It's the opinion of this writer that the legislation in question is economically and culturally irresponsible as well as being Constitutionally anarchistic.

8. CHILDREN NOW: Children And Welfare Reform Content analysis on welfare reform Reporting. A Report by Children Now http://www.childrennow.org/economics/WelfRef98/WelfareReformShortDoc.html

Our Programs CALIFORNIA FOCUS TALKING WITH KIDS WORKING FAMILIES HEALTH News Archives PRESS RELEASES RELATED ARTICLES E-NEWSLETTERS VEDIO ARCHIVE Content Analysis on Welfare Reform Reporting A Report by Children Now January 1998 Children Now is a nonprofit, independent voice for children, working to translate the nation's commitment to children and families into action. Children Now combines policy expertise and up-to-date communications strategies that reach parents, lawmakers, citizens, business, media and community leaders to generate positive change on behalf of children. With particular concern for those who are poor or at risk, Children Now is committed to improving conditions for all children. Founded in 1988, Children Now is a national organization with special depth in California. Welfare reform dominated the news across the nation in 1996 and 1997. In 1996, Congress ended Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and restructured assistance to America's poorest families with a new program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). In 1997, states began to take on the challenge of reshaping their own benefit programs for poor families. Of the 12.6 million Americans directly affected by these actions, two-thirds (8.7 million) are children.

9. Analysis Of Welfare Reform bill not available for analysis, this is from earlier welfare.exe to extract the WordPerfect file. An updated summary of Maryland's State Plan under Federal Human Services reform http://www.dhr.state.md.us/welfare.htm

PRELIMINARY COMPARISON OF THE MAJOR FEATURES OF THE CONFERENCE BILL AND FIP As of August 2, 1996. Full text of bill not available for analysis, this is from earlier versions of the bill and from sources such as the NGA and others. This comparison is also available to download as a WordPerfect file with the information presented in table format. Click here to download the file and then run the file named welfare.exe to extract the WordPerfect file. An updated summary of Maryland's State Plan under Federal Human Services Reform from March, 1997 is now available. Provision Abolishes Aid to Families with Dependent Children Entitlement to Assistance Maintenance of Effort Contingency Fund Incentives Spending limits Fair and Equitable Treatment Welfare to Work Programs Personal Responsibility Agreements Flexibility in Program Design Work Participation Rates Hours of Participation Child Care Must work after 24 months - cumulative Community Service Requirement No assistance to a family which includes an adult who has received assistance for 60 months - cumulative Minor parents Assistance to children born while their families are on welfare (Family Cap) Penalties on customers for failure to comply with program requirements Domestic violence Individual Development Accounts Penalties on states Food Stamp Program - General Retention Rates Legally Present Noncitizens Penalties for Drug Related Convictions Medical Assistance Child Support Social Services Block Grant Child Protection Block Grant Effective Date - TANF

10. NCPA - Brief Analysis 401, Welfare Reform: Reasons To Stay The Course NCPA is a nonprofit public policy research institute seeking innovative private sector solutions to public policy problems http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba401

Policy Issues NCPA Publications Both Sides Opinion Editorials ... Audio/Visual NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS HOME DONATE ONE LEVEL UP ABOUT NCPA ... CONTACT US Welfare Reform: Reasons To Stay the Course Brief Analysis No. 401 Monday, June 24, 2002 Download this page in PDF format Get Adobe Acrobat Reader by Joe Barnett The number of Americans receiving cash welfare - called Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) - has fallen in half; the number of Americans living in poverty has fallen 21 percent; and the annual incomes of the poorest women have increased nearly $1,000. The 1996 federal welfare reforms are partly responsible for these positive trends. Concerns remain that some who have left the welfare rolls - mostly women with children - do not have "decent jobs" that will lift them out of poverty. However, the evidence shows that although some welfare leavers face the same hardships they experienced while receiving assistance, their living conditions improved, and even women with low wage jobs are making economic progress. Less Poverty.

11. Welfare Information Network A clearinghouse for information, policy analysis and technical assistance on welfare reform. http://www.financeprojectinfo.org/WIN/default.asp

Welfare Information Network Home Search About IFDM Site Map ... Go To TFP General Resources Hot Topics Event Calendar Publications by The Finance Project ... Contact Us WIN Resources TANF State Plan Summaries Best Practices Sites Network Summaries Provider List If you have any questions about the content of this page, please email us at welfinfo@welfareinfo.org Other Welfare Related Sites CWIC IWIN Making Wages Work TANF Reauthorization ... www.financeproject.org. 1401 New York Avenue, NW Suite 800 Washington, DC 20005 Tel. 202-587-1000 Fax. 202-628-4205 Welfare Information Network A project of The Finance Project , WIN is a clearinghouse for information, policy analysis and technical assistance related to welfare, workforce development, and other human and community services. Information Resources are organized into four categories: Program Issues Management Issues Research Other Resources and Links Program Issues Access and Discrimination Housing Adult Education/Literacy/GED Immigrants ... Youth Development Management Issues Agency Reorganization One-Stops/Co-Location Business Process Redesign Organizational Culture Change ... Outsourcing and Privatization (Profit, Non-Profit)

12. The Progress Report -- Independent Daily News News, analysis , and discussion on issues from progressive perspective on topics including economic justice, corporate welfare,urban sprawl and tax reform. http://www.progress.org/

part of The Economic Justice Network Choose One Specialized Search Engine Discussion Room Understanding Economics Prosperity for Australia Build Your Own Tax Policy Corporate Welfare Shame Site Green Economics What's Your Position? Free Quiz Sprawl Information Center Cooperative Individualism Museum of Tax Oddities Economic Justice Plaza About the EJN Deutsch Korean Danish Japanese ... Page Two Search This Site! Opinion Poll To how many organizations do you pay dues or make donations at least once a year? zero one or two three or four five or more Powered by Perseus ExpressPoll web survey software Shop Links Volunteers Needed ... Legal Notice When the worst polluters seize public assets without paying their fair market value, how does Congress punish them? By giving them billions of dollars in corporate welfare handouts. Read the disgusting truth. Rewarded for Stealing Resources from the Public Big Landowners Get Welfare Handouts the American values of individualism, risk-taking and entrepreneurship, seem to be vanishing. Instead, you'd better hold onto your wallet. In these days of huge government deficits, someone decided that it is an urgent, top priority to take some of your money and funnel it to large landowners. Pennsylvania Welfare Program for Landowners Organize, Engage, Listen

13. Andrew Mitchell-Thinking Cap Consulting Andrew Mitchell provides quantitative and qualitative research, policy analysis, and advocacy in areas such as welfare reform, workfare, income security, and unemployment. http://www.thinkingcapconsulting.com

Clients and Projects Publications Links Contact Thinking Cap Consulting is Andrew Mitchell, a professional social policy researcher with fifteen years expertise in quantitative and qualitative research, policy analysis, advocacy and public education. Andrew has conducted reasearch and published in the areas of fiscal policy, welfare reform, workfare, income security and unemployment and is the author of numerous publications, including commissioned research for many clients, chapters in externally published books and refereed journals. Andrew is frequently consulted by the media for research and commentary on public policy and economic trends and has made numerous presentations on a variety of topics before diverse audiences including government committees, community groups, students and academics. Andrew Mitchell 21 Vine Crescent, Barrie, ON, L4N 2B3 telephone: 705.792.9981 andrew.mitchell4@sympatico.ca

14. Economic Downturns And Welfare Reform: An Exploratory County-Level Analysis ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS AND welfare reform AN EXPLORATORY COUNTYLEVEL analysis. Stephan J. Goetz http://ext.msstate.edu/srdc/activities/goetzdraft.htm

ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS AND WELFARE REFORM: AN EXPLORATORY COUNTY-LEVEL ANALYSIS Stephan J. Goetz Fisseha Tegegne Julie N. Zimmerman David L. Debertin Surendra P. Singh Safdar Muhammed Enefiok Ekanem Presented at the Small Grants Conference Washington, D.C., October 14 and 15, 1999 Revised: November 8, 1999 Over the past 20 years, the U.S. economy has experienced remarkable economic and job growth. The combination of rising incomes, low and declining rates of unemployment, low interest rates and rapid GDP growth have led to a booming stock market. Since new firms are being created and old firms are often expanding, new job creation has been rapid. As a result, jobs are now more readily available for welfare recipients who want to work, and, with the rapidly expanding economy of the past five years, welfare caseloads have been declining. A major goal of the authors of welfare reform legislation was to reduce the number of individuals relying on welfare over a long period of time, and that goal is being met. Although the decline in welfare caseloads can be partially attributed to the prosperous economy of the past five years, research conducted by the government and by academic researchers also suggests that the welfare reform legislation itself was responsible for a reduction in the number of caseloads (GAO, 1998, p. 96; Council of Economic Advisers, 1997; Ziliak et al. 1997; Martini and Wiseman, 1997; Blank, 1997 a The strong economy makes it easier for individuals to move off welfare, but problems still remain. First, not all areas of the US are sharing equally in the growing economy. Second, certain welfare recipients, primarily younger women who lack education, face a different and often more limited labor market than is available to most workers. Third, past welfare recipients still face a variety of barriers to employment that are beyond their control.

15. Four Years Of Welfare Reform: A Progress Report Cato Policy analysis No. 378, August 22, 2000. Four Years of WelfareReform A Progress Report. by Lisa E. Oliphant. Lisa E. Oliphant http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-378es.html

@import "/styles/ns4_toxins.css"; Advanced Search Help Books Policy Studies ... El Cato Cato Policy Analysis No. 378 August 22, 2000 Four Years of Welfare Reform: A Progress Report by Lisa E. Oliphant Lisa E. Oliphant is an entitlements policy analyst at the Cato Institute. Executive Summary Fours year ago, President Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, promising to put an end to dependence on welfare by requiring work and responsibility and encouraging two-parent families. The conversion of the old entitlements-based Aid to Families with Dependent Children program into the new work-oriented Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program has brought about some of the most talked-about public policy phenomena of the last decade, including dramatically reduced caseloads and an influx of single mothers into the labor market. Welfare reform is generally regarded as a great success, and policymakers today are talking about incremental add-ons to the 1996 legislation. A closer review of the research, however, reveals that the celebration of welfare reform has been premature and that the new law, in fact, merits fundamental restructuring. A survey of welfare reform’s progress to date suggests that the 1996 legislation, although moderately successful in reducing the disincentive to leave welfare, has produced few gains in self-sufficiency and done little to discourage women from making the choices that cause them to enter the welfare rolls in the first place:

16. NCPA - BA #161 - Principles For Welfare Reform: Block Grants Principles for welfare reform Block Grants National Center for Policy analysis For immediate release Monday, April 24, 1995 Principles for welfare reform Block Grants http://www.ncpa.org/ba/ba161.html

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS HOME DONATE ONE LEVEL UP ABOUT NCPA ... CONTACT Principles for Welfare Reform: Block Grants National Center for Policy Analysis BRIEF ANALYSIS No. 161 For immediate release: Monday, April 24, 1995 Principles for Welfare Reform: Block Grants The House of Representatives has voted to take funds currently spent on Aid to Families With Dependent Children (AFDC), child nutrition and a few other programs and return the money to the states in the form of "block grants." House Republicans are also considering a block grant for Medicaid. Senate Republicans indicate they may call that idea and raise, with a super block grant that includes food stamps, job training and most of the remaining federal welfare programs. All told, there are 338 means-tested federal programs spending about $240 billion a year. State governments put up about $1 of matching money for every $2 from the federal government. So in principle the federal government is considering handing over to state and local governments as much as $350 billion a year - an amount roughly equal to $3,500 for every household in America. The goals of these reforms are laudable: transferring power back to the people and allowing local communities to find workable solutions to a welfare system that is a dismal failure. Yet serious questions remain. How much should go to each state? Should restrictions be attached? What promises should be made for future years? Let's take a look.

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18. O'Neill And O'Neill: Lessons For Welfare Reform: An Analysis Of The AFDC Caseloa Lessons for welfare reform. An analysis of the AFDC Caseload and Pastwelfareto-Work Programs. Dave M. O'Neill and June Ellenoff O'Neill http://www.upjohninst.org/publications/titles/lwr.html

Lessons for Welfare Reform An Analysis of the AFDC Caseload and Past Welfare-to-Work Programs Dave M. O'Neill and June Ellenoff O'Neill (The first chapter of this book is available in PDF format.) Welfare reforms enacted in 1996 are here. A 60-month lifetime limit for welfare benefits is in place, as is a work requirement after two years on the rolls. Furthermore, states have assumed greater autonomy over welfare spending and have become responsible for new programs to replace the now-defunct Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) for six decades the nation's principal cash assistance welfare program and its accompanying education, work and training programs. In Lessons for Welfare Reform , Dave M. O'Neill and June Ellenoff O'Neill have compiled and analyzed data that identifies historical trends in the AFDC caseload, the personal characteristics of recipients, and broad patterns of welfare participation. They also offer an evaluative survey on the effectiveness of past education, training and workfare programs in reducing the AFDC caseload. The result is a book that offers thoughtful new analyses on several crucial questions facing state policy makers as a result of welfare reform including: 1) How many recipients can be expected to reach the five-year limit imposed by the new legislation? 2) What are the personal characteristics and labor-market options of those who reach this limit? 3) How helpful are work/training programs in reducing welfare dependency? 4) How will current and potential recipients react to a reduction in the financial benefits available from welfare? and 5) Will teenage out-of-wedlock childbearing fall in unison with the incidence of welfare participation among young women?

19. Brief Analysis 210: Does Welfare Reform Cost More Money? Critics of welfare reform assume that welfare recipients are usually do, thus decreasingthe welfare rolls. This Brief analysis was prepared by NCPA President http://www.ncpa.org/pi/welfare/ba/ba210.html

Does Welfare Reform Cost More Money? Friday, August 23, 1996 Brief Analysis No. 210 Critics of welfare reform assume that welfare recipients are unable to earn a decent wage on their own and that single mothers have no place to leave their children while working. Thus, opponents assert, in order to compete in the labor market welfare mothers need education and child care services - items that can cost almost as much as a minimum-wage worker earns. For example, by one estimate, Wisconsin's recently passed welfare-to-work legislation will increase that state's welfare bill by 13 percent. Proponents of work-fare often accept the same premise. As a result, a great deal of money goes not to support work but to pay tuition and training costs. Unfortunately, the recipients often make the minimum effort necessary to stay in the program and continue collecting benefits. Thus little progress is made. Fortunately, work-fare programs in some states already have been successful in getting recipients back to work while decreasing total welfare costs. Let's take a closer look. A Program That Works.

20. Analysis Links Welfare Reform And Family Violence analysis links welfare reform and family violence. By Susan Lang. Oneof the hidden costs of welfare reform, both at the federal and http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/01/3.29.01/welfare-violence.html

Analysis links welfare reform and family violence By Susan Lang One of the hidden costs of welfare reform, both at the federal and state levels, is addressed in a new study by a Cornell researcher. The study found that the marginally employed people whose low pay makes them eligible for welfare payments are almost four times more likely to be violent with their families than workers not on welfare or even than other unemployed workers. The study also found that unemployed individuals who use alcohol to excess are at greater risk of committing family violence than the employed who abuse alcohol or nondrinkers, with the greatest risk among employed welfare recipients. Race and ethnicity were not found to be significant in predicting family violence, when other factors were controlled in the analysis. Partnership stability, having a physical or mental limitation which could restrict the ability to hold a job or a previous history of alcohol abuse were also not significant. In a paper published in the March issue of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (Vol. 55, No. 3), Eunice Rodriguez, an assistant professor in Cornell's Department of Policy Analysis and Management, said her analysis indicates that marginal employment coupled with welfare are a very significant factor in family violence. However, she said, unemployment on its own, appears to have no effect on the likelihood of family violence, when alcohol abuse, income, education, age and other factors are taken into account.

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