TITLE: Welfare Reform: An Examination of Effects

CIS-NO: 2002-H341-35  
SOURCE: Committee on Education and the Workforce. House  
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony  
DATE: Sept. 20, 2001  
LENGTH: iv+208 p.  
CONG-SESS: 107-1  
ITEM-NO: 1015-A; 1015-B  
SUDOC: Y4.ED8/1:107-30  


SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 107-30. Hearing before the Subcom on 21st Century Competitiveness to examine implementation of workforce participation requirements of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) State block grant program, established under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 to move public aid recipients from dependency to self-sufficiency through employment, in light of upcoming TANF program reauthorization.
 
Supplementary material (p. 35-208) includes submitted statements, witnesses' written statements and written replies to Subcom questions, and:
   a. Burnham, Linda (Women of Color Resource Center), "Welfare Reform, Family Hardship, and Women of Color" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Sept. 2001, with bibliography (p. 43-48).
   b. Albelda, Randy (Univ of Mass Boston), "Fallacies of Welfare-to-Work Policies" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Sept. 2001, with bibliography (p. 49-55).
   c. Mink, Gwendolyn, "Violating Women: Rights Abuses in the Welfare Police State" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Sept. 2001, with bibliography (p. 56-63).
   d. White, Lucie E. (Harvard Law School), "Closing the Care Gap That Welfare Reform Left Behind" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Sept. 2001, with bibliography (p. 64-70).
   e. Center for Women Policy Studies, "Getting Smart About Welfare: Postsecondary Education is the Most Effective Strategy for Self-Sufficiency for Low Income Women" July 1998, with bibliography (p. 195-207).

CONTENT-NOTATION: Welfare programs reform initiatives implementation

DESCRIPTORS:  
   SUBCOM ON 21ST CENTURY COMPETITIVENESS. HOUSE;  PUBLIC WELFARE PROGRAMS; FEDERAL AID TO STATES-PUBLIC WELFARE PROGRAMS; FEDERAL-STATE RELATIONS; EMPLOYMENT; PERSONAL AND FAMILY INCOME; WORK INCENTIVE PROGRAMS; BIBLIOGRAPHIES; WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT; MINORITY GROUPS; POVERTY; FAMILIES; WOMEN; CIVIL LIBERTIES; TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES; PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND WORK OPPORTUNITY RECONCILIATION ACT

02-H341-35 TESTIMONY NO: 1     Sept. 20, 2001 p. 6-34, 71-173
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   HASKINS, RON (Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution)
   RECTOR, ROBERT (Senior Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation)
   POTTS, JOEL (Policy Administrator, TANF, Ohio Department of Job and Family Services)
   BOUSHEY, HEATHER (Economist, Economic Policy Institute)
   SCHRAM, SANFORD F. (Professor, Graduate School of Social Work and Research, Bryn Mawr College)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Differing evaluations of welfare reform under PRWORA (related bibl, graphs, chart, p. 90-94); description of welfare reform accomplishments, citing decline in welfare enrollment and poverty rates following TANF implementation (related graphs, p. 105-113 passim); overview of welfare reform implementation in Ohio (related graphs, p. 122-127 passim).
   Differing perspectives on significance of welfare caseload decline (related bibl, p. 143-146); criticisms of welfare reforms, citing insufficient income of families leaving welfare assistance (related bibl, p. 160-162); arguments against apparent success of welfare reform, citing strong economy as cause of caseload declines; recommendations for TANF reauthorization.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Welfare programs reform initiatives implementation
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   OHIO DEPARTMENT OF JOB AND FAMILY SERVICES; PERSONAL AND FAMILY INCOME; STATISTICAL DATA: PUBLIC WELFARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY; OHIO

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