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- Highlights the interrelated role of the transition from AFDC to TANF with the onset and development of EITC
- Presents original research about program participation
- Provides detailed information about the role of the federal government in social provisioning for low-income working families
- Narrative style will be geared to a broad range of social scientists
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Historical Overview of Select Federal Cash Assistance Programs
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Front Matter
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Employment and Training Initiatives in the Global Economy
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
The book seeks a middle ground between general and technical social policy texts. It provides more depth than is available in the more general social policy texts. Further, while the more comprehensive texts often rely on government documents and reports relying on Current Population Survey data to profile program use, this book relies on panel data from the National Longitudinal Surveys and presents original research that builds upon prior related research and scholarship about the role of the federal government in social welfare provisioning in general and AFDC/TANF and EITC use in particular and on school-to-work transition programs. It presents related technical material in a narrative style better suited to professionals and policy makers who may lack expertise in quantitative analysis.
Authors and Affiliations
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Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University, New York, USA
Richard K. Caputo
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: U.S. Social Welfare Reform
Book Subtitle: Policy Transitions from 1981 to the Present
Authors: Richard K. Caputo
Series Title: International Series on Consumer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7674-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-7673-4Published: 31 January 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2796-4Published: 24 February 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-7674-1Published: 20 January 2011
Series ISSN: 2191-5660
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5679
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 308
Topics: Family, Social Policy, Psychotherapy and Counseling