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Question: How should I talk with recipients about welfare time limits?

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Programs and Organizations

As of late 2000, substantial numbers have reached time limits in the following states: Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, and Virginia. Contact their state TANF agency if you have questions.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP)
820 First Street, NE, Suite 510
Washington, DC 20002
(202) 408-1080
www.cbpp.org

Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
1616 P Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 328-5140
www.clasp.org

Massachusetts Law Reform Institute
99 Chauncey Street, Suite 500
Boston, MA 02111
(617) 357-0700

State Policy Documentation Project (SPDP)
SPDP is a joint project of the Center for Law
and Social Policy and the Center on Budget
and Policy Priorities
www.spdp.org

Welfare Information Network
1341 G Street, NW, Suite 820
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 628-5790
www.welfareinfo.org


Publications

Bloom, Dan. 1999. Welfare Time Limits: An Interim Report Card. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation. 
Executive Summary
| Complete Report

Bloom, Dan, et al. 1999. The Family Transition Program: Implementation and Three-Year Impacts of Florida's Initial Time-Limited Welfare Program. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation. 
Executive Summary

Bloom, Dan, et al. 2000. Jobs First: Implementation and Early Impacts of Connecticut's Welfare Reform Initiative. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation. 
Executive Summary | Complete Report

Brown, Amy, Dan Bloom, and David Butler. 1997. The View from the Field: As Time Limits Approach, Welfare Recipients and Staff Talk About Their Attitudes and Expectations. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation. 

Gordon, Anne, et al. 1999. Experiences of Virginia Time Limit Families in the Six Months After Case Closure: Results for an Early Cohort. Princeton: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Greenberg, Mark, and Michael C. Laracy. 2000. Welfare Reform: Next Steps Offer New opportunities: A Role for Philanthropy in Preparing for the Reauthorization of TANF in 2002. McLean, VA: Neighborhood Funders Group. www.nfg.org/publications/welfare.htm

Hunter-Manns, Jo Anna, and Dan Bloom. 1999. Connecticut Post-Time Limit Tracking Study: Six-Month Survey Results. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.
Complete Report

Richardson, Philip, et al. 1999. Evaluation of the North Carolina Work First Program: Study of Families Leaving Work First After Reaching the 24-Month Time Limit: Results of the First Follow-Up Surveys. McLean, VA: Maximus.

Schott, Liz. 2000. Ways That States Can Serve Families That Reach Welfare Time Limits. Washington, DC: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
www.cbpp.org/6-21-00wel.pdf

Tweedie, Jack. 2000. Sanctions and Exits: What Do States Know About Families Who Leave Welfare Because of Sanctions and Time Limits? Washington, DC: Joint Center for Poverty Research.
www.jcpr.org/wp/WPprofile.cfm?ID=152wp


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No. 4, Summer 2000


Dan Bloom
Since joining MDRC in 1988, Bloom has directed three large-scale evaluations of state welfare reform waiver projects, and he is currently co-principal investigator for the multisite Employment Retention and Advancement evaluation. He has written more than 20 research reports, as well as a book, After AFDC: Welfare-to-Work Choices and Challenges for States, summarizing lessons learned from studies of welfare-to-work programsanda synthesis of research, How Welfare and Work Policies Affect Employment and Income. Bloom has a master’s degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

 


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