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    Welfare Reform, Work, and Child Care
The Role of Informal Care in the Lives of Low-Income Women and Children
Policy Brief
    2003. Virginia W. Knox, Andrew S. London, Ellen K. Scott with Susan Blank.

Drawing on ethnographic interviews, this policy brief describes the patchwork child care arrangements made by low-income parents and discusses implications for policies that would promote the dual objectives of child well-being and parental employment.
 
    Out of Their Hands
Patching Together Care for Children When Parents Move from Welfare to Work
Working Paper
    2003. Ellen Scott, Allison Hurst, and Andrew S. London.

 
    "Making A Way Out of No Way"
How Mothers Meet Basic Family Needs While Moving from Welfare to Work
Working Paper
    2003. Susan Clampet-Lundquist, Kathryn Edin, Andrew S. London, Ellen Scott, and Vicki Hunter.

 
    Welfare Reform in Cleveland
Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and Neighborhoods
    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.
 
    How Welfare and Work Policies for Parents Affect Adolescents
A Synthesis of Research
    2002. Lisa A. Gennetian, Greg J. Duncan, Virginia W. Knox, Wanda G. Vargas, Elizabeth Clark-Kauffman, Andrew S. London.

The latest research synthesis from the Next Generation project takes a closer look at troubling findings regarding the effects of welfare and work programs on the teenaged children of program enrollees.
 
    Is Work Enough?
The Experiences of Current and Former Welfare Mothers Who Work
    2001. Denise F. Polit, Rebecca Widom, Kathryn Edin, Stan Bowie, Andrew S. London, Ellen K. Scott, Abel Valenzuela.

 
    My Children Come First
Welfare-Reliant Women's Post-TANF Views of Work-Family Trade-offs and Marriage
Working Paper
    2001. Ellen K. Scott, Kathryn Edin, Andrew S. London, and Joan Maya Mazelis.

 
    The Health of Poor Urban Women
Findings from the Project on Devolution and Urban Change
    2001. Denise F. Polit, Andrew S. London, John M. Martinez.

 
    Food Security and Hunger in Poor, Mother-Headed Families in Four U.S. Cities
    2000. Denise F. Polit, Andrew S. London, John M. Martinez.

 
 



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