Changing Welfare

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction and Overview

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Changing Welfare

      • Rachel A. Gordon, Herbert J. Walberg

      Pages 3-12

3. Cash Assistance Reforms and the Well-Being of Families and Children

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Child Well-Being in the Context of Welfare Reform

      • Pamela A. Morris, Virginia Knox, Robert C. Granger

      Pages 15-36

   3. Full Circle

      • Elizabeth T. Powers

      Pages 37-57

   4. How Will Welfare Reform Affect Childbearing and Family Structure Decisions?

      • H. Elizabeth Peters, Robert D. Plotnick, Se-Ook Jeong

      Pages 59-91

4. Health and Nutritional Supports to Families under Welfare Reforms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

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   2. Expanding Public Health Insurance for Children

      • Lara Shore-Sheppard

      Pages 95-117

   3. Medicaid Managed Care for Children and Youth

      • Arleen A. Leibowitz

      Pages 119-136

   4. Connecting with Communities to Provide Children with Nutrition

      • Gretchen Butera

      Pages 137-155

5. Challenges to Implementing and Studying Welfare Reforms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. Children and Welfare Reform

      • Ross A. Thompson, Hilary A. Raikes

      Pages 159-177

   3. Thinking Further Outside the Box

      • David Hopping

      Pages 179-199

   4. Are They Truly Off Welfare?

      • Robert M. Goerge

      Pages 201-211

   5. Ethical Dilemmas Facing Caseworkers

      • Steven G. Anderson

      Pages 213-232

6. Back Matter

   Pages 233-255

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Changing Welfare is concerned with the sweeping changes that took place in public assistance programs at the end of the 20th century and the way in which the original and reformed versions of these programs relate to the well-being of children and their families. The authors critically review the original conceptualizations and the new directions of programs offering cash assistance, food assistance, health insurance, and child protection services to low-income and disabled children and their families - thus, changes in the welfare programs themselves. And throughout, their concern is with whether and how these programs alter the opportunities for the development of the children targeted by these programs - thus, changes in the welfare of children and their families.
The objective of each chapter of the book is to rigorously highlight key theoretical and research issues, including the identification of major empirical findings and unanswered questions. Wherever relevant, the chapters connect theory and research to policy and practice, pointing to recommendations and challenges for the future including alternative approaches for research, policy and practice.

• Alter
• Evaluation
• Familie
• Innovation
• Public Health
• education
• health
• political science
• social work
• sociology

• University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA

  Rachel A. Gordon, Herbert J. Walberg

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