عنوان

Life after welfare :

(Number (ISBN

0292716664

(Number (ISBN

0292716672

(Number (ISBN

9780292716667

(Number (ISBN

9780292716674

Number

b760961

Title Proper

Life after welfare :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

reform and the persistence of poverty /

First Statement of Responsibility

Laura Lein and Deanna T. Schexnayder ; with Karen Nanges Douglas and Daniel G. Schroeder.

Edition Statement

1st ed.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Austin :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Texas Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2007.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xv, 173 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, map ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-163) and index.

Text of Note

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Families in a changing welfare context -- 2. The context for Texas poverty and welfare -- 3. The weak (and tangled) safety net -- 4. Making a living after welfare -- 5. Coping with barriers to self-sufficiency -- 6. Staying employed and off welfare -- 7. Low-income families and TANF policies -- Appendix A : Research methods -- Appendix B : Regression tables -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Text of Note

"In the decade since President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 into law--amidst promises that it would "end welfare as we know it"--Have the reforms ending entitlements and moving toward time limits and work requirements lifted Texas families once living on welfare out of poverty, or merely stricken their names from the administrative rolls? Under welfare reform, Texas has continued with low monthly payments and demanding eligibility criteria. Many families who could receive welfare in other states do not qualify in Texas, and virtually any part-time job makes a family ineligible. In Texas, most families who leave welfare remain in or near poverty, and many are likely to return to the welfare rolls in the future. This compelling work, which follows 179 families after leaving welfare, is set against a backdrop of multiple types of data and econometric modeling. The authors' multi-method approach draws on administrative data from nine programs serving low-income families and a statewide survey of families who have left welfare. Survey data on health problems, transportation needs, and child-care issues shed light on the patterns of employment and welfare use seen in the administrative data. In their lives after welfare, the families chronicled here experience poverty even when employed; a multiplicity of barriers to employment that work to exacerbate one another; and a failing safety net of basic human services as they attempt to sustain low-wage employment."--Back cover.

Title

Life after welfare.

Poor families-- Texas.

Public welfare-- Texas.

Arbeit.

Armut.

Armut.

Familie.

Poor families.

Public welfare.

Reform.

Sozialhilfe.

Sozialhilfe.

Texas.

Texas.

Texas.

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Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Lein, Laura.

Schexnayder, Deanna.

Date of Transaction

20201204203640.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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