Welfare Reform: Tribal TANF Allows Flexibility to Tailor Programs, but Conditions on Reservations Make It Difficult to Move Recipients into Jobs

This groundbreaking new book offers a history of welfare, an accurate portrayal of welfare recipients and an understanding of the diverse characteristics of lone-mother-headed families affected by welfare reform. Through detailed research, award-winning author Kenneth J. Neubeck offers a unique comparison of other industrialized nation's welfare policies compared to ours, and presents a new argument for curtailing the end of welfare as we know it: the case for respecting economic human rights.

Native Americans lag behind other Americans on many key economic indicators, such as median household income. To improve such conditions, Congress in 1993 created Indian Reservation Depreciation (IRD), a tax expenditure offering accelerated depreciation for property invested on Indian reservations. This report: (1) describes which taxpayers claimed IRD; (2) analyzes the effect of IRD on the economic development of reservations; and (3) describes the tax benefits offered by IRD. Includes recommendations. Charts and tables.