Seven Welfare reform in the United States: the first five years of TANF
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Pamela A. Holcomb
Abstract
This chapter talks about the most significant changes in welfare policy and programmes at the local, state, and federal level that have occurred over the first five years. The first section sheds some light on the key changes in federal welfare policy that resulted from the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA). The second section describes the range of policies that states have established under the law, while the third section takes a look at the implementation of welfare reform at the local level. The fourth and final section summarises the research on the effects of welfare reform on families and children.
Abstract
This chapter talks about the most significant changes in welfare policy and programmes at the local, state, and federal level that have occurred over the first five years. The first section sheds some light on the key changes in federal welfare policy that resulted from the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA). The second section describes the range of policies that states have established under the law, while the third section takes a look at the implementation of welfare reform at the local level. The fourth and final section summarises the research on the effects of welfare reform on families and children.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and figures iv
- Notes on contributors vi
- Introduction: the year in social policy 1
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UK social policy
- Thinking historically about integration 15
- Invest and reform: spending review 2002 and its control regime 31
- Who choosing what? The evolution of the use of ‘choice’ in the NHS, and its importance for New Labour 49
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International issues
- Globalisation/welfare: what’s the preposition? And, or, versus, with? 71
- Convergence in social welfare systems: what does it mean? 91
- Analysing the health transition: what the Greek case tells us about the social determinants of health 111
- Welfare reform in the United States: the first five years of TANF 123
- Social policy in the East Asian tiger economies: past, present and future 155
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In focus: Pensions and old age
- Adapting pension systems to labour market changes in western Europe 175
- Pensions choices for the 21st century: meeting the challenges of an ageing society 197
- The schlock and the new: risk, reflexivity and retirement 217
- Pension sharing on divorce: the future for women 239
- Index 263
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and figures iv
- Notes on contributors vi
- Introduction: the year in social policy 1
-
UK social policy
- Thinking historically about integration 15
- Invest and reform: spending review 2002 and its control regime 31
- Who choosing what? The evolution of the use of ‘choice’ in the NHS, and its importance for New Labour 49
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International issues
- Globalisation/welfare: what’s the preposition? And, or, versus, with? 71
- Convergence in social welfare systems: what does it mean? 91
- Analysing the health transition: what the Greek case tells us about the social determinants of health 111
- Welfare reform in the United States: the first five years of TANF 123
- Social policy in the East Asian tiger economies: past, present and future 155
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In focus: Pensions and old age
- Adapting pension systems to labour market changes in western Europe 175
- Pensions choices for the 21st century: meeting the challenges of an ageing society 197
- The schlock and the new: risk, reflexivity and retirement 217
- Pension sharing on divorce: the future for women 239
- Index 263
