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Between Welfare Reform and Reauthorization
Income Support Systems in Cuyahoga and Philadelphia, 2000 to 2005
2007. David Seith, Sarah Rich, and Lashawn Richburg-Hayes.
This report, part of MDRC’s Project on Devolution and Urban Change, describes how — in the early 2000s, a time marked by an economic downturn, state budget cuts, and welfare time limits — Cleveland and Philadelphia met the three main challenges of welfare reform: how to assist recipients in moving from welfare to work, how to serve recipients who have multiple or severe barriers to employment, and how to provide work supports to low-income families.
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All Project on Devolution and Urban Change Publications
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Between Welfare Reform and Reauthorization
Income Support Systems in Cuyahoga and Philadelphia, 2000 to 2005
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2007. David Seith, Sarah Rich, and Lashawn Richburg-Hayes.
This report, part of MDRC’s Project on Devolution and Urban Change, tells the story of Cleveland’s and Philadelphia’s welfare systems in the early 2000s, a time marked by an economic downturn, state budget cuts, and welfare time limits.
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Food Stamp Caseload Dynamics
A Study in Four Big Cities
A Technical Report
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2005. Lashawn Richburg-Hayes and Isaac Kwakye
This technical report describes food stamp caseload dynamics between January 1993 and December 2001 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio; Los Angeles, California; Miami-Dade County, Florida; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Welfare Reform in Los Angeles
Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and Neighborhoods
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2005. Denise F. Polit, Laura Nelson, Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, and David C. Seith, with Sarah Rich.
Welfare caseloads fell, employment increased, and neighborhood conditions improved in Los Angeles during a period of economic growth and welfare reform. However, most welfare recipients still remained poor, the concentration of poverty increased, and those who worked were usually in low-wage jobs without benefits.
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Welfare Reform in Miami
Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and Neighborhoods
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2004. Thomas Brock, Isaac Kwakye, Judy C. Polyné, Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, David Seith, Alex Stepick, Carol Dutton Stepick with Tara Cullen and Sarah Rich.
Welfare caseloads fell, employment increased, and social conditions generally improved in Miami-Dade County after the 1996 federal welfare reform law was passed, but the county’s welfare-to-work program was poorly implemented and unusually harsh.
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Welfare Reform in Philadelphia
Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and Neighborhoods
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2003. Charles Michalopoulos, Kathryn Edin, Barbara Fink, Mirella Landriscina, Denise F. Polit, Judy C. Polyne, Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, David Seith, Nandita Verma.
Based on a comprehensive body of evidence, this report from the Project on Devolution and Urban Change examines how changes in Pennsylvania’s welfare reform policies combined with a strong regional economy in the late 1990s to create substantial change in the welfare system in Philadelphia.
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Monitoring Outcomes for Los Angeles County’s Pre- and Post-CalWORKs Leavers
How Are They Faring?
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
2003. Nandita Verma, Richard Hendra.
Responding to the growing need to understand whether people who have left the welfare rolls since the passage of the 1996 welfare reform law are able to find and keep jobs and earn enough to lift their families out of poverty, this study compares two groups of single-parent welfare recipients — one that left the welfare rolls in 1996, and a similar group who exited welfare in 1998 —investigating their background characteristics, their employment and earnings experiences, and their material well-being.
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Comparing Outcomes for Los Angeles County’s HUD-Assisted and Unassisted CalWORKs Leavers
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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
2003. Nandita Verma, Richard Hendra.
This report studies the post-welfare experiences of three groups — two that received federal housing assistance when they left the welfare rolls and an unassisted group that did not — to see how they differ with respect to their labor market outcomes, material well-being, and propensity to return to the welfare rolls or rely on other forms of public assistance.
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Welfare Reform in Cleveland
Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and Neighborhoods
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2002. Thomas Brock, Claudia Coulton, Andrew London, Denise Polit, Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, Ellen Scott, Nandita Verma with Isaac Kwakye, Vanessa Martin, Judy C. Polyne, David Seith.
This report from the Project on Devolution and Urban Change examines how welfare reform has played out in Ohio's Cuyahoga County, which encompasses Cleveland, based on a comprehensive body of evidence that includes administrative records, surveys, and ethnographic interviews.
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Readying Welfare Recipients for Work
Lessons from Four Big Cities as They Implement Welfare Reform
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2002. Thomas Brock, Laura C. Nelson, Megan Reiter.
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Is Work Enough?
The Experiences of Current and Former Welfare Mothers Who Work
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2001. Denise F. Polit, Rebecca Widom, Kathryn Edin, Stan Bowie, Andrew S. London, Ellen K. Scott, Abel Valenzuela.
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The Health of Poor Urban Women
Findings from the Project on Devolution and Urban Change
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2001. Denise F. Polit, Andrew S. London, John M. Martinez.
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Monitoring Outcomes for Cuyahoga County’s Welfare Leavers
How Are They Faring?
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2001. Nandita Verma, Claudia Coulton with Richard Hendra, Engel Polousky.
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Social Service Organizations and Welfare Reform
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2001. Barbara Fink, Rebecca Widom with Richard Beaulaurier, Gilbert Contreras, Lorna Dilley, Rebecca Joyce Kissane.
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Post-TANF Food Stamp and Medicaid Benefits
Factors That Aid or Impede Their Receipt
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2001. Janet Quint, Rebecca Widom with Lindsay Moore.
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Assessing the Impact of Welfare Reform on Urban Communities
The Urban Change Project and Methodological Considerations
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2000. Charles Michalopoulos, Johannes M. Bos, Robert Lalonde, Nandita Verma.
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Food Security and Hunger in Poor, Mother-Headed Families in Four U.S. Cities
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2000. Denise F. Polit, Andrew S. London, John M. Martinez.
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Big Cities and Welfare Reform
Early Implementation and Ethnographic Findings from the Project on Devolution and Urban Change
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1999. Janet Quint, Kathryn Edin, Maria L. Buck, Barbara Fink, Yolanda C. Padilla, Olis Simmons-Hewitt, Mary Eustace Valmont with Stan L. Bowie, Earl S. Johnson, Jill E. Korbin, Carol Dutton Stepick, Alex Stepick, Abel Valenzuela, Jr.
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