Shrinking the Public Safety Net or Helping the Poor Play by the Rules? The Changes in the State-Level Policies That Affected Low-Income Families with Children in the Welfare Reform Era: 1994-2002

Autor/inn/en	Aratani, Yumiko; Lu, Hsien-Hen; Aber, J. Lawrence
Titel	Shrinking the Public Safety Net or Helping the Poor Play by the Rules? The Changes in the State-Level Policies That Affected Low-Income Families with Children in the Welfare Reform Era: 1994-2002
Quelle	In: American Journal of Evaluation, 35 (2014) 2, S.189-213 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1098-2140
DOI	10.1177/1098214013510199
Schlagwörter	Welfare Services; Low Income Groups; Family Programs; Children; State Policy; Public Policy; Social Services; Expenditures; Responsibility; Program Effectiveness; Poverty; Eligibility; Taxes; Federal Aid; State Aid; Employment Programs; Demography; Multivariate Analysis; Regression (Statistics) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fürsorgeeinrichtung; Family program; Familienprogramm; Child; Kind; Kinder; Öffentliche Ordnung; Social service; Soziale Dienstleistung; Soziale Dienste; Ausgaben; Verantwortungsübernahme; Zuständigkeit; Armut; Eignung; Abgabe; Employment program; Employment programme; Employment programmes; Beschäftigungsprogramm; Demografie; Multivariate Analyse; Regression; Regressionsanalyse
Abstract	Despite the claimed success of the 1996 Welfare Reform, little research using multivariate regression has examined changes in multiple public safety-net programs. Thus, we still do not know whether public safety-net programs for the poor have shrunk or increased nationwide, along with the sharp declines in cash assistance. Using state-level data between 1994 and 2002 and state fixed-effects model, this study examines changes in nine safety-net programs designed for low-income families with children along with decreases in support from Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)/Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and the results indicate that the decline in AFDC/TANF support was not associated with increases in support for the economic self-sufficiency of low-income families; safety-net programs for the poor shrunk during the 1996 reform. As there is an increasing need for an effective use of public dollars to assist the poor in the present recession, future researchers should turn their attention to the study of multiple safety-net policies. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10