TITLE: Welfare Reform: Success in Moving Toward Work

CIS-NO: 2002-H341-36  
SOURCE: Committee on Education and the Workforce. House  
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony  
DATE: Oct. 16, 2001  
LENGTH: iv+138 p.  
CONG-SESS: 107-1  
ITEM-NO: 1015-A; 1015-B  
SUDOC: Y4.ED8/1:107-33  


SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 107-33. 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. 35-138) includes submitted statements and witnesses' written statements.

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; TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES; PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND WORK OPPORTUNITY RECONCILIATION ACT

02-H341-36 TESTIMONY NO: 1     Oct. 16, 2001 p. 5-34, 41-131
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   KAROLY, LYNN A. (Director, Labor and Population Program, RAND)
   GARLAND, E. MONA (Director, Opportunities Industrialization Center of Greater Milwaukee, Wisconsin Works)
   HALL, LASHUNDA (former Wisconsin Works participant)
   CARROLL, RODNEY J. (President and CEO, Welfare to Work Partnership)
   DAVIS, MARTHA (Legal Director, NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund)
   BROOKS, JENNIFER (Director, Self-Sufficiency Programs and Policy, Wider Opportunities for Women)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Review of studies on impact of welfare reform under PRWORA, with mixed assessment of TANF program effectiveness (related bibl, p. 60-61); overview of positive results in Wisconsin implementation of welfare reform, with personal experience of former welfare recipient (related tables, graphs, p. 69-78).
   Need to incorporate education and training into TANF work requirement quotas; concerns about insufficient incomes of single mothers released from welfare support under TANF work requirements; recommendations for TANF reauthorization.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Welfare programs reform initiatives implementation
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   WISCONSIN WORKS; WELFARE TO WORK PARTNERSHIP; NOW LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND; WIDER OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN; STATISTICAL DATA: PUBLIC WELFARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY; BIBLIOGRAPHIES; ADULT EDUCATION; HIGHER EDUCATION; MANPOWER TRAINING PROGRAMS; PERSONAL AND FAMILY INCOME; WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT; WISCONSIN

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