Tracking the Progress of Welfare Reform Quickly
Title | Tracking the Progress of Welfare Reform Quickly PDF eBook |
Author | Lois M. Quinn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 25 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Ex-welfare recipients |
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Growing Up in Poverty
Title | Growing Up in Poverty PDF eBook |
Author | Growing Up in Poverty Project |
Publisher | |
Pages | 9 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Poor children |
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Managing Welfare Reform in New York City
Title | Managing Welfare Reform in New York City PDF eBook |
Author | Emanuel S. Savas |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780742549289 |
Welfare reform was a spectacular success in New York under Mayor Giuliani despite the city's history of liberal social programs and its huge, entrenched welfare system. The city reduced the numbers on welfare from 1,120,000 to 460,000 by changing the organizational culture, protecting against fraud, insisting on 'work first, ' adapting information technology, and contracting for job placement. The organizational culture was transformed by bold leadership that changed the welfare agency's mission and goals, overcame internal resistance, and prevailed over politicians who had a vested interest in the status quo and the media that were opposed to welfare reform. Welfare fraud was largely eliminated by dropping from the rolls those who were working and could not appear for in-person interviews, by fingerprinting recipients to catch those enrolled under multiple identities and those receiving welfare checks from other jurisdictions, by uncovering hidden income, by enrolling new applicants only after thorough investigation, and by tightening controls to prevent fraud by corrupt employees. JobStat, a computer-based system modeled after the Police Department's system used to track precinct activity, was developed to track the status of welfare recipients and to monitor the performance of the 'Job Centers, ' which were formerly called welfare offices. JobStat focused the attention of department personnel on performance indicators rather than on minutely specified rules. The Giuliani administration's major contribution to national welfare reform was the creation of the only system in the country with large-scale, alternative work arrangements that was able to acculturate large numbers of the never-employed to the world of work.
Tracking the Outcomes of Welfare Reform in Florida for Three Groups of People
Title | Tracking the Outcomes of Welfare Reform in Florida for Three Groups of People PDF eBook |
Author | Robert E. Crew |
Publisher | |
Pages | 53 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Child welfare |
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Tracking Welfare Reform
Title | Tracking Welfare Reform PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 18 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Public welfare |
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Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition
Title | Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2001-09-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780309072748 |
Reform of welfare is one of the nation's most contentious issues, with debate often driven more by politics than by facts and careful analysis. Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition identifies the key policy questions for measuring whether our changing social welfare programs are working, reviews the available studies and research, and recommends the most effective ways to answer those questions. This book discusses the development of welfare policy, including the landmark 1996 federal law that devolved most of the responsibility for welfare policies and their implementation to the states. A thorough analysis of the available research leads to the identification of gaps in what is currently known about the effects of welfare reform. Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition specifies what-and why-we need to know about the response of individual states to the federal overhaul of welfare and the effects of the many changes in the nation's welfare laws, policies, and practices. With a clear approach to a variety of issues, Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition will be important to policy makers, welfare administrators, researchers, journalists, and advocates on all sides of the issue.
Indicators for Tracking Welfare Reform
Title | Indicators for Tracking Welfare Reform PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 1999* |
Genre | Public welfare |
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