Welfare Reform and its Long-Term Consequences for America's Poor (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521764254)

Two decades of federal and state-level demonstration projects and experiments concerning cash welfare in the United States culminated with the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, better known as welfare reform. Ten years after reform there remain a host of unanswered questions on the well-being of low-income families. In Welfare Reform and Its Long Term Consequences for America's Poor, many of the nation's leading poverty experts address these and related outcomes to assess the longer-term effects of welfare reform. A diverse array of survey and administrative data are brought to bear to examine the effects of welfare reform and the concomitant expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit on the level and distribution of income, the composition of consumption, employment, public versus private health insurance coverage, health and education outcomes of children, marriage, and social service delivery.

Author: James P. Ziliak
ISBN-10: 0521764254
ISBN-13: 9780521764254
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/17/2009
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.29w x 1.13d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2010