Managing welfare reform in five states : the challenge of devolution
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Managing welfare reform in five states : the challenge of devolution
Rockefeller Institute Press, 2000
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"Florida, Mississippi, New York, Washington, Wisconsin" -- cover
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Description
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 presented challenges to all states to alter their welfare programs and management systems. This book features similarities as well as differences in their implementation of welfare reform, within the context of their distinctive historical, political, cultural, economic, and demographic experiences. Public support for moving welfare recipients to work forms the common overlay; reorganized state-level administrative structures and diverse local management and service arrangements differentiate them. The book chapters provide an in-depth account of welfare reform, its complex workings, and the important role played by political leaders at state and local levels in Florida, Mississippi, New York, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 1. Public Opinion, Political Leadership, and Welfare Reform
Sarah F. Liebschutz
2. Florida Welfare Reform: Cash Assistance as the Least Desirable Resource for Poor Families
Robert E. Crew, Jr. and Belinda Creel Davis
3. To Privatization and Back: Welfare Reform Implementation in Mississippi
David A. Breaux, Christopher M. Duncan, C. Denise Keller, and John C. Morris
4. Welfare Reform in New York: A Mixed Laboratory for Change
Sarah F. Liebschutz
5. Washington's WorkFirst Program: Key Policy Challenges
Janet Looney and Betty Jane Narver
6. Wisconsin Works
Thomas Kaplan
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