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Evaluating Welfare Reform: A Framework and Review of Current Work, Interim Report (Compass Series (Washington, D.C.).) by National Research Council; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Committee on National Statistics; Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs; Michele Ver Ploeg; Robert A. Moffitt is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 fundamentally changed the nation's social welfare system, replacing a federal entitlement program for low-income families, called Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), with state-administered block grants, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. PRWORA furthered a trend started earlier in the decade under so called'waiver'programs-state experiments with different types of AFDC rules-toward devolution of design and control of social welfare programs from the federal government to the states. The legislation imposed several new, major requirements on state use of federal welfare funds but otherwise freed states to reconfigure their programs as they want. The underlying goal of the legislation is to decrease dependence on welfare and increase the self-sufficiency of poor families in the United States. In summer 1998, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) asked the Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council to convene a Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the
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- Author
- National Research Council; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Committee on National Statistics; Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs; Michele Ver Ploeg; Robert A. Moffitt
- Publisher
- National Academies Press
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780309203746
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Sociology, Social Science
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