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Product Description: Since Congress enacted welfare reform in 1996, states have had more flexibility in designing their own welfare programs. With this flexibility has come an increased interest in accountability at the state level. Like other states, California is frequently evaluated according to declines in its welfare recipiency rate...read more

Product Description: Presents the results of the second annual All-County Implementation Surveys (ACIS) conducted as part of RAND's statewide evaluation of the CalWORKs program. California counties continuew to explore a variety of approaches to CalWORKs program implementation and their experiences continue to vary significantly...read more

Product Description: In the years following welfare reform, caseloads have declined considerably both in California and in the rest of the nation. Nationally, welfare participation has fallen 47 percent from its 1994 peak, yielding the lowest recipiency rate since 1970...read more

Product Description: Examines the first year of the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The 1996 federal welfare reform legislation called for many substantial changes in the welfare system. However, some of these changes were not carefully considered, and subsequent legislation has already modified or reversed several of the original reforms...read more

Product Description: A pioneering contribution to the literature, this book studies welfare dependence among families eligible for assistance under Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), the most controversial income-maintenance program in the nation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)