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U.S. Social Welfare Reform: Policy Transitions from 1981 to the Present

U.S. Social Welfare Reform: Policy Transitions from 1981 to the Present

Hardcover

Series: International Consumer Science

EconomicsGeneral PsychologyPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 1441976736
ISBN13: 9781441976734
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jan 31 2011
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.39
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

U. S. Social Welfare Reform examines pivotal changes in social welfare for low-income families in the United States between 1981, the advent of the Reagan administration, and 2008, the end of the G.W. Bush administration. It focuses on the change from the Federal-state open entitlement Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program to the time-limited state run Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program which Congress authorized with passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996. The book also focuses on the development of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) program, enacted in 1975 against the backdrop of failed efforts to nationalize AFDC which aimed at providing a basic income to all poor families, but which blossomed with continued bipartisan support in the 1990s. This book also explores alternative strategies to assist low-income families, including job training programs. It present original research on the educational and economic well-being of youth from low-income families who participated in government sponsored job training programs in the late 1970 and early 1980s.

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