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The Cost of Children and the Welfare State
This paper discusses the results from a study on the financial cost of children and the welfare, tax provisions, and income support for families with children in the UK.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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December 1995
Does the Loss of Welfare Income Increase the Risk of Involvement with the Child Welfare System?
This paper demonstrates that a decline in welfare benefits is associated with an increased likelihood of a family's involvement with the child welfare system.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Joint Center for Poverty Research
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January 01, 1999
Disadvantage Among Families Remaining on Welfare
This paper examines the characteristics of welfare recipients throughout the last decades of the twentieth century, and analyses changes that occurred as a result of the 1996 welfare reforms.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Joint Center for Poverty Research
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February 2002
Welfare Reform and Household Saving
This paper examines the effectiveness of savings incentives that were implemented as part of welfare reform in the United States.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Joint Center for Poverty Research
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July 2001
Gender Inequality in Poverty in Affluent Nations: The Role of Single Motherhood and the State
This paper discusses gender differences in poverty in the United States, Australia, Canada, France, West Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Joint Center for Poverty Research
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January 05, 2000
Maternal Work Behavior Under Welfare Reform: How Does the Transition From Welfare to Work Affect Child Development?
This paper examines the impact that the transitions from welfare to work have on parenting style and child behavior.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Joint Center for Poverty Research
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May 2002
Before and After Welfare Reform: The Work and Well-Being of Low-Income Single Parent Families
This paper addresses the income, employment characteristics, financial status, and demographic trends in poor homes both before and after welfare reform.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Institute for Women’s Policy Research
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June 01, 2003
Women’s Work Supports, Job Retention, and Job Mobility: Child Care and Employer-Provided Health Insurance Help Women Stay on Jobs
This study examines factors that affect the rate of job turnover among low-income working women.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Institute for Women's Policy Research
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November 2004
Eradicating Child Poverty in Britain: Welfare Reform and Children since 1997
Child poverty has become a social concern in Great Britain due to the growth of single-parent homes, earning inequalities, and unemployment.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Institute For Fiscal Studies
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May 03, 2001
Values Underpinning Poverty Programs for Children
This article discusses the ways in which programs developed to address child poverty in the United States reflect the particular ideologies and values of Americans.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Future of Children
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Summer/Fall 1997
Comprehensive Community Initiatives: Principles, Practice, and Lessons Learned
This article discusses initiatives intended to improve the lives of families in very poor neighbourhoods.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Future of Children
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Summer/Fall 1997
Choosing Among Alternative Programs for Poor Children
This article suggests a framework for evaluating and comparing federal programs intended to help children living in poverty.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Future of Children
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Summer/Fall 1997
Programs that Mitigate the Effects of Poverty on Children
This article outlines and assesses six public assistance programs that seek to reduce the impact of poverty on children by ensuring that they have access to such basic essentials as food, education, housing, and health care.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Institute for Research on Poverty
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Summer/Fall 1997
Child Poverty Can Be Reduced
This article examines the effectiveness of various American policies designed to reduce child poverty by increasing the overall earnings of poor parents, providing supplements to their income, and offering them cash assistance.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Future of Children
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Summer/Fall 1997
Financial Impact of Divorce on Children and their Families
This article looks at the economic impact of divorce on families and finds that most women and children have to deal with considerable financial declines post- divorce.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Future of Children
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Spring 1994
Economic and Labour Market Trends
This article examines changes in economic and labour market trends in the United States as they affect the well-being of low-income, immigrant working families and their children.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Future of Children
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Summer 2004
Family and Medical Leave: Making Time for Family is Everyone's Business
This paper describes how the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was passed, what it achieved, and how medical policies can be further improved to help more working families.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Future of Children
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Spring/Summer 2001
The One Hundred Billion Dollar Man The Annual Public Costs of Father Absence
This study provides an estimate of taxpayer costs in the US, in support of homes in which the father is absent.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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National Fatherhood Initiative
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2008
Sandbagging the Family: The impact of recession on couple and parenting relationships
This article examines the effects of global recession on the family.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Maxim Institute
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September 15, 2009
Down but Not Out: Reforming Social Assistance Rules that Punish the Poor for Saving
This report addresses Canada's social assistance programs which requrie recipients to liquidate savings before qualifiying for benefits.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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C.D. Howe Institute
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March 2, 2010
Five Good Reasons for States to Expand Family Coverage
This paper demonstrates that, despite initiatives to increase the number of people with health insurance, millions of Americans still are not insured.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Families USA
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July 01, 2008
Does it Pay to Work?
This paper investigates the actual economic benefit of employment and finds that high rates of taxation are creating disincentives to work.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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National Center for Policy Analysis
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November 2002
The Self-Sufficiency Project at 36 Months: Effects on Children of a Program that Increased Parental Employment and Income
This paper reports the effects of a welfare-to-work program for the participants' children including effects on their income, ...
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Social Research and Demonstration Corporation
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June 01, 2000
The Child Support Program: An Investment That Works
This paper outlines the merits of the American child support system and provides evidence that it renders significant benefits to children and custodial parents.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Center for Law and Social Policy
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April 2005
You Get What You Pay For: How Federal and State Investment Decisions Affect Child Support Performance
This paper argues that the current child support system places too much emphasis on gaining a profit for the states, and does not invest enough in child support services for children and families.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Center for Law and Social Policy
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December 01, 1998
Beyond Job Search or Basic Education: Rethinking the Role of Skills in Welfare Reform
This paper argues that a combination of skills, training, and job search assistance is the best approach to helping welfare recipients return to and stay at work.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Center for Law and Social Policy
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April 01, 1998
Teens and TANF: How Adolescents Fare Under the Nation’s Welfare Program
This paper describes the history, main provisions, and impact of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), a welfare program focusing on financial assistance and employment for families living in poverty.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
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December 01, 2003
Who Pays When Paternity is Disestablished?
This paper discusses the financial implications of disestablishing paternity for parents, children, and the state.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Center for Law and Social Policy
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April 01, 2003
Child Support—an Important but Often Overlooked Issue for Low-Income Clients
This article describes the importance of child support, the child support enforcement system, the cooperation requirements for state financial assistance, and the allocation of the collected support.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Centre for Law and Social Policy
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November 01, 2002
How Children Fare in Welfare Experiments Appears to Hinge on Income
This paper examines the impact of various welfare-to-work programs on children's emotional, behavioural, and educational outcomes.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Children’s Defense Fund
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August 22, 2001
Welfare Reform and Beyond: Making Work Work
This book examines the 1996 welfare reform and its effect on employment levels, focusing specifically on the impact welfare work regulations have on income, dependency, and state expenditures on social services.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Committee for Economic Development
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2000
Tackling the Human Deficit: Investing in Children & Families in Ontario
This paper discusses child poverty in Ontario and makes nine recommendations for a poverty agenda.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Campaign 2000
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February 10, 2004
Honouring our Promises: Meeting the Challenge to End Child and Family Poverty
This report demonstrates that although rates of child poverty in Canada are declining, many children are still growing up poor.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Campaign 2000
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2003
Child Poverty Persists: Time to Invest in Children and Families
This paper describes the continuing problem of child poverty in Ontario and makes recommendations that would eliminate child poverty, and ensure that all children have access to adequate resources and opportunities for success.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Campaign 2000
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2003
Family Security in Insecure Times: Tackling Canada's Social Deficit
This paper calls for the implementation of a comprehensive child benefit, national housing plan, and affordable child care to address the continuing problem of child poverty in Canada.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Campaign 2000
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November 01, 2001
Assessing Age Pension Options: Public Opinion in Australia 1994-2001 with Comparisons to Finland and Poland
This paper examines public attitudes toward alternative old-age pensions in Australia.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
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September 2004
Simulating the Behavioural Effects of Welfare Reforms among Sole Parents in Australia
This paper uses simulation techniques to compare the effects of actual and hypothetical welfare policies on the employment decisions of single parents in Australia.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
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June 2001
The Growth of Jobless Households in Australia
This paper examines household and individual rates of unemployment in Australia in the 1990s.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
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May 2001
Marriage and Welfare Reform: The Overwhelming Evidence That Marriage Education Works
This research brief summarizes the results of 29 peer-reviewed social science journal articles which show that marriage education in the United States has had a positive impact on the nation's marital unions.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC
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October 25, 2002
Work, Welfare, and Family Well-Being
This paper examined how post-welfare employment affects parental self-esteem, parenting skills, health and stress levels.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Mathematica Policy Research
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July 13, 2007
Fragile Families and Welfare Reform: An Introduction
This working paper assesses the effectiveness of welfare reforms in the United States by first considering four key areas of family life and income: the capabilities and resources of parents on welfare, the nature of parents' relationship, the involvement of fathers with their children and the nature of the local policy and labour markets.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Joint Center for Poverty Research
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January 8, 2002
Effects of Child Health on Sources of Public Support
This paper documents the financial hardship experienced by mothers who have children in poor health.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Center for Research on Child Wellbeing
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August 2004
Household Responses to Individual Shocks: Disability and Labor Supply
This article examines the effects that individual shock like jobloss and disability have on the economic wellbeing of households.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Canadian Labour Market and Skills Researcher Network
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May 2009
Low Income Cut-Offs for 2008 and Low Income Measures for 2007.
This publication incorporates a detailed description of how low income cut-offs are updated and how low income measures are decided upon.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Statistics Canada
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June 2009
Substance Use among Welfare Recipients: Trends and Policy Responses
This paper discusses trends in the prevalence of substance use and abuse among welfare recipients, and shows that while about 20% of recipients report recent use, only a small number can be classified as dependent.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Population Studies Center
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2002
The Effect of Child Support on Welfare Entries and Exits
This paper demonstrates that child support payments effectively enable many young mothers to stay off of welfare.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Center for Family and Demographic Research
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September 2000
Barriers to the Employment of Welfare Recipients
This paper studies the extent to which welfare-reliant single mothers experience barriers to employment such as poor physical or mental health, domestic violence, a lack of transportation, low skill, and substance abuse problems.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Population Studies Center
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June 2002
Effects of Welfare Reform on Teenage Parents and their Children
This article discusses the effectiveness of the Teenage Parent Welfare Demonstration, a welfare-to-work program for teenage mothers.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Future of Children
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Summer/Fall 1995
Public Attitudes Toward Low-Income Families and Children: Circumstances Dictate Public Views of Government Assistance
This report discusses recent research about public attitudes toward low-income families.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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National Center for Children in Poverty
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October 2003
Responsible Fatherhood and Welfare: How States Can Use the New Law to Help Children
This report discusses how US state and federal policies can promote responsible fatherhood.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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National Center for Children in Poverty
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1998
Child Support Distribution and Disbursement
This report reviews the changes to child support distribution that came as a result of the 1996 welfare reform laws in the United States.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Center for Law and Social Policy
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October 01, 2000
The Welfare Enigma: Explaining the Dramatic Decline in Canadian’s Use of Social Assistance, 1993-2005
This paper uses nationwide empirical evidence to determine the factors behind a decline in the use of social assistance in Canada from 1993 to 2005.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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C.D. Howe Institute
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June 2008
Breakthrough Britain: Serious Personal Debt
This 2007 British State of the Nation report offers policy alternatives to change the culture of Britain with respect to peronal debt.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Centre for Social Justice
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July 2007
Welfare Reform: What About the Children?
This paper explores the development and behaviour of children on welfare.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Johns Hopkins University
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January 2002
Baby Steps Toward Self-funded Parental Leave
The author argues that Australia should move towards a self-funded parental leave system.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Centre for Independent Studies
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September 18, 2008
How Effective are Child Care Subsidies in Reducing a Barrier to Work?
This paper discusses the costs of child care and looks at whether or not subsidies are effective for promoting employment among married and single mothers.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling
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May 01, 1996
Better Strategies for Babies: Strengthening the Caregivers and Families of Infants and Toddlers
This report discusses ways in which state and local governments can promote the proper development of babies and toddlers in low-income families.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The National Center for Children in Poverty
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2000
Alberta's Children: Issues, Programs and Restructuring
This paper discusses child poverty levels in Alberta and evaluates the child tax, welfare, and protection services that the government has adopted to help low-income families.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Canada West Foundation
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September 8, 1997
Families, Fertility, and Maternity Leave
This paper explores the causes of decreasing fertility and marriage rates and makes suggestions as to the development of public policy to address these concerns.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Centre for Independent Studies
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September 16, 2002
Déjà Vu: Family Homelessness in New York City
This report examines the characteristics of children and families who enter shelter services in New York City.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Institute for Children and Poverty/Homes for the Homeless
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April 2001
Reducing Poverty: What has Worked, and What Should Come Next
This report suggests that Canada’s declining poverty rate and rising employment rate over the last decade have been assisted by positive policy initiatives.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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C.D. Howe Institute
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October 2007
The State of Religion and Public Life
This presenter rebuts many of the claims made against government funding for services run by faith-based organizations, such ...
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Center for Civic Innovation at the Manhattan Institute
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May 21, 2002
The Well-Being of Single-Mother Families After Welfare Reform
This report examines the impact welfare changes had on single mothers in the United States.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Brookings Institution
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August 2005
Built to Last: Why Skills Matter for Long-Run Success in Welfare Reform
This report discusses the association between education and better jobs, and criticizes the restrictions placed on education by the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families welfare reform program.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Center for Law and Social Policy
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April 01, 2003
Determinants of Welfare Entry and Exit by Young Women
This paper demonstrates that parental reliance on welfare, family and personal attitudes towards education, family structure, academic ability, and ethnicity are all factors that affect the likelihood of welfare dependency and the rate of welfare entry and exit.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Institute for Research on Poverty
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July 01, 1996
Are Public Housing Projects Good For Kids?
This paper finds that public housing projects have a positive effect on housing quality and children's educational attainment.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Institute for Research on Poverty
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July 1999
Has ‘Welfare Dependency’ Increased?
This paper examines changes in the pattern of welfare dependency among women, particularly teen mothers, and looks at factors that contribute to termination of welfare reliance.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Institute for Research on Poverty
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October 01, 1997
Disability Risk and Income Security for Workers: A Stressed Support System in Need of Innovation
This report suggests that household incomes for working-aged disabled people have been dropping over the previous two decades as the babyboom generation has aged and healthcare costs have increased.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Cornell University Institute for Policy Research
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January 2007
Need for the Use of Family Leave Among Parents of Children with Special Health Care Needs
This study examines the leave-taking habits of full-time-employed parents of children with special health care needs in Chicago and Los Angeles.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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American Academy of Pediatrics
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May 2007
Employment, Earnings Supplements, and Mental Health: A Controlled Experiment
This paper explores the relationship between employment and mental health, and evaluates the cost-effectiveness of the Self Sufficiency Project in terms of its policy of providing financial incentives for employment to those living on welfare.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Social Research and Demonstration Corporation
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February 01, 2004
A Balancing Act: Sources of Support, Child Care, and Hardship Among Unwed Mothers
This report examines single mothers' patterns of reliance on social support, the child care arrangements they make, and the particular physical, emotional, and economic challenges that these women face.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Columbia University School of Social Work
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2002
The Changing Role of Child Support among Never-Married Mothers
This paper shows that more never-married mothers are receiving child support than were in the past, although it continues to be relatively uncommon.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Institute for Research on Poverty
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October 01, 1999
Work, Welfare, and Family Structure: A Review of the Evidence
This paper looks at a number of major American welfare reform programs, including Assistance for Families with Dependent Children, Medicaid, and food stamps.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Institute for Research on Poverty
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August 01, 1996
Does Welfare Play Any Role in Female Headship Decisions?
This paper seeks to determine whether or not welfare policies affect women's decision to head their own household.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Institute for Research on Poverty
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December 01, 1995
Single motherhood and mental health: implications for primary prevention
This paper provides an extensive survey of research done on the health of single mothers.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Canadian Medical Association
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March 01, 1997
Lessons of United States Welfare Reforms for Australian Social Policy
This paper reviews the impact that the United States welfare reforms have had on employment rates, income, maternal mental and physical health, and the well-being of children.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Australian Institute of Family Studies
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November 2002
Perspectives on Social Justice in New Zealand: A report for the Maxim Institute on the social justice internet survey
Using data from an internet survey, this report examines the diverse public views regarding social justice.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Maxim Institute
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November 2006
Teen Parent Provisions in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
This paper examines the regulations, provisions, and purposes of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, otherwise known as the Welfare Reform Act of 1996.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Center for Law and Social Policy
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November 01, 1996
Myths About the Adequacy of Current Child Care Funding
This paper corrects some common beliefs about child care funding in the United States and argues that funding for this service remains inadequate.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Center for Law and Social Policy
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March 29, 2004
Welfare Benefits and Family-Size Decisions of Never-Married Women
This study investigates whether or not restricting benefits to unmarried, welfare dependent women who have children is an effective deterrent to illegitimate childbearing.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Institute for Research on Poverty
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September 01, 1993
What Does Government Spend on Children: Evidence from Five Cities
This report provides information about government spending on services for children in five economically disadvantaged cities.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Brookings Institution
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March 01, 2004
Making Ends Meet: Six Programs that Help Working Families and Employers
This paper reviews six programs intended to support working families: the Earned Income Tax Credit, food stamps, child care, health care, child support, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Center for Law and Social Policy
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June 01, 2002
How an Earnings Supplement Can Affect the Marital Behaviour of Welfare Recipients: Evidence From the Self-Sufficiency Project
This paper examines the impact of the Self Sufficiency Program (SSP) on the marriage patterns of the participants.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Social Research and Demonstration Corporation
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2001
A Follow-up Study of Child Hunger in Canada
This is an analysis of child hunger data from the 1996 National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, and looks at the statistics of and factors associated with child hunger ...
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Human Resources and Skills Development of Canada
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2001
Hunger in America 2006
Relying on survey information, this report measures food insecurity among Americans in 2005, focusing on which groups of people were in need and how charitable agencies and governments addressed the problem of domestic hunger.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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America’s Second Harvest – The Nation’s Food Bank Network
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February 2006
Public Assistance Use Among Two-Parent Families: An Analysis of TANF and Food Stamp Program Eligibility and Participation
This study, commissioned by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Mathematica Policy Research Inc.
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January 2005
Towards A New Architecture for Canada's Adult Benefits
This paper traces the development of Canada’s social security system, critiques the current system and offers suggestions for how that system could be improved.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Caledon Institute of Social Policy
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June 2006
The Incredible Shrinking $1,200 Child Care Allowance: How to Fix It
This report offers a critical analysis of the National Child Benefit, implemented by the Federal Conservative Government in June 2006.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Caledon Institute of Social Policy
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April 2006
Making Marriage Matter
This lecture highlights the efforts of Frank Keating (the Governor of Oklahoma) to strengthen families and strengthen marriage in Oklahoma.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Heritage Foundation
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September 27, 2000
Maternal Employment, Migration, and Child Development
This article evaluates the roles and relationships between parental and school influences on child development.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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November 2003
Child Poverty and Changes in Child Poverty in Rich Countries Since 1990
This paper examines prevalence and changes in child poverty in 12 OECD countries in the last decade of the twentieth century, with a focus on the factors causing these changes.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Institute for the Study of Labor
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April 2005
Principles and Practicalities for Measuring Child Poverty in the Rich Countries
This paper discusses issues and challenges in the measurement of poverty, assesses poverty levels and changes in OECD countries in the 1990s, and offers suggestions for the formulation of reasonable goals for the elimination of child poverty.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Institute for the Study of Labor
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Apriil 2005
Families and the World of Work: Four Country Profiles of Family-Sensitive Policies
This report provides case studies of family and work-related initiatives in Argentina, Egypt, India, and the Netherlands that are intended to help families secure and maintain productive and permanent employment.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Social Policy and Development Family Unit
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2000
Food Security and Hunger in Poor, Mother-Headed Families in Four U.S. Cities
This report provides the results of a study which examined food insecurity in welfare-dependent and formerly welfare-dependent mother-headed households in economically disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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MDRC
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May 2000
Does Child Care Assistance Matter? The Effects of Welfare and Employment Programs on Child Care for Preschool and Young School-Aged Children
This paper examines the effects of various experimental welfare and work programs on single parents' use of child care services in the United States.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Manpower Research Demonstration Corporation
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September 2001
Is Work Enough? The Experiences of Current and Former Welfare Mothers Who Work
This report describes the experiences of economically disadvantaged, urban women who transitioned from welfare to work.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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MDRC
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November 2001
My Children Come First: Welfare-Reliant Women's Post-TANF Views of Work-Family Trade-offs and Marriage
This paper explores women's perceptions of the welfare to work transition and the resulting work-family trade-offs, in the context of welfare reform in the United States.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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MDRC
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December 2001
“You have to push it —who’s gonna raise your kids?” Situating Child Care and Child Care Subsidy Use in the Daily Routines of Lower-Income Families
This paper examines low-income families involved in an experimental anti-poverty intervention in the United States to determine the reasons for low and episodic use of program-based child care and child care subsidy use.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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MDRC
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December 2001
How Child Care Assistance in Welfare and Employment Programs Can Support the Employment of Low-Income Families
This study of experimental welfare and employment programs in the United States highlights the important role that expanded child care assistance played in the success of these programs.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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MDRC
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June 2002
Staying Single: The Effects of Welfare Reform Policies on Marriage and Cohabitation
This paper examines the effects of 14 different American welfare and employment programs on marriage and cohabitation decisions among single-parent families.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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MDRC
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April 2003
Cooperation and Good Cause: Greater Sanctions and the Failure to Account for Domestic Violence
This paper discusses the history and consequences of a policy in the United States which requires single mothers who are seeking public assistance to cooperate in establishing paternity and child support for their children.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Center for Family Policy and Practice (formerly the Center on Fathers, Families, and Public Policy)
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2000
Assessing the New Federalism: Eight Years Later
This report provides a synthesis of research conducted as part of the Urban Institute's Assessing the New Federalism project, which examined the experiences of low-income families throughout an extended period of changing social welfare policies in the United States.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Urban Institute
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2005
How Effective is the British Government’s Attempt to Reduce Child Poverty?
This paper examines the extent and causes of child poverty in Britain and describes initiatives by the Labour government to reduce child poverty by raising family income, increasing paid work, and addressing long-term disadvantage.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
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June 2000
State Policies that Affect Working Families
This paper analyzes four state policies designed to help working families: job-protected family care, child care subsidies, early childhood education and elementary school schedules, and tax policy.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Urban Institute
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August 2004
The Impact of Tax and Transfer Systems on Children in the European Union
This paper examines the effects of European nations' taxation policies on child poverty rates and the financial resources available to children.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Institute for the Study of Labor
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May 2005
Child Care Assistance Policies 2001-2004: Families Struggling to Move Forward, States Going Backward
This paper examines state child care policies in the United States from 2001 to 2004 and shows that the availability of child care assistance for families declined during this period.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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National Women's Law Center
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September 2004
HIV/AIDS in Households with Children Suffering from Malnutrition: The Role of Social Security in Mount Frere
This case study, based on the Mount Frere region of South Africa, examines the effects of HIV/AIDS on households already experiencing poverty and child malnutrition.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The South African Journal of Economics
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December 2002
Health Care Coverage Among Child Support-Eligible Children
This report examines the characteristics of children living with their mothers who are eligible for child support, and analyses the extent to which they have access to health care insurance.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation
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December 2002
The National Evaluation of the Welfare-to-Work Grants Program: Final Report
This report provides a comprehensive evaluation of a grant program designed to fund state programs to transition the 'least employable' welfare recipients and noncustodial parents into the workforce.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
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September 2004
Receipt of Unemployment Insurance among Low-Income Single Mothers
This issue brief documents an increase in the number of low-income, single mothers relying on unemployment insurance in the United States from 2000 to 2003.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Policy Information Center, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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January 2005
Child Support Policy Concepts and Proposals that Will Impact Poor Families
This policy brief describes proposed changes to child support legislation in the United States and discusses the effects that these changes would have on low-income families.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Center on Fathers, Families, and Public Policy
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May 2001
Economic Insecurity: Implications of Federal Budget Proposals for Low-Income Working Families
This paper demonstrates that proposed cuts to health care, food stamps, housing assistance, and child care assistance in the United States would have significant negative effects on low-income, working families with children.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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National Center for Children in Poverty
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April 2005
The Availability and Use of Publicly Funded Family Planning Clinics: U.S. Trends, 1994–2001
This article examines publicly funded family planning services in the United States and assesses the extent to which services in each state are meeting the family planning needs of low-income women.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Allan Guttmacher Institute
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September/October 2004
The Children Left Behind: Deeper Poverty, Fewer Supports
This study analyses the effect of welfare reforms on child well-being and concludes that, while some children may have benefited from the reforms, those who were most disadvantaged actually experienced greater hardship.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Institute for Women's Policy Research
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2004
Staying Employed: Trends in Medicaid, Child Care, and Head Start in Ohio
This paper reviews both expansions and cutbacks in state child and health care in Ohio and discusses the potential benefits of these programs for low-income working parents.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Institute for Women's Policy Research
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November 2004
Parental Employment Does Not Guarantee Health Insurance for Children
This report outlines state differences in low-income working families' access to and use of public health insurance.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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National Center for Children in Poverty
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September 2004
Receipt of Government Supports Varies Widely by State
This fact sheet provides an overview of the percentage of children living in low-income families in all the American states and demonstrates that the well-being of low-income families varies significantly depending on which state they live in.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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National Center for Children in Poverty
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September 2004
Whose Security? What Social Security Means to Children and Families
This report provides an overview of the benefits offered by Social Security in the United States, with particular emphasis on the assistance it provides to children and their families.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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National Center for Children in Poverty
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February 2005
National Estimates of Child Care and Subsidy Receipt for Children Ages 0 to 6: What Can We Learn from the National Household Education Survey?
This research brief provides estimates of child subsidy receipt and child care arrangements for preschool children in the United States.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Child Trends
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October 2004
Low Pay, Household Resources, and Poverty
This study explores the extent to which employment alone is sufficient to keep low-wage families out of poverty.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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2004
Routes out of Poverty: A Research Review
This review of existing research examines the dynamics of poverty in the United Kingdom, with an emphasis on pathways leading into and out of poverty.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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2004
How Welfare and Work Policies Affect Children: A Synthesis of Research
This document gives a detailed explanation and analyses of the effects welfare to work policies have on child well-being.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation
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March 2001
What if Welfare Had No Work Requirements? The Age of Youngest Child Exemption and the Rise in Employment of Single Mothers
This paper examines the extent to which the 1996 American welfare reforms were successful in bringing about large increases in the number of single mothers who were employed.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Federal Reserve Board
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August 2003
Subsidizing Child Care for Low-Income Families: A Good Bargain for Canadian Governments?
This paper examines the effects child care has on the employment and income of lone-mothers.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Institute for Research on Public Policy
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May 01, 1998
Getting Help With Child Care Expenses
This paper discusses the expenses of child care and focuses on how, and where, employed families recieve childcare assistance.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Urban Institute
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February 01, 2003
Giving Mom and Dad a Break: Returning Fairness to Families in Canada's Tax and Transfer System
This paper looks at ways in which the Canadian tax system might be altered in the interests of Canadian families.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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C.D. Howe Institute
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November 26, 1998
Legal Services Commission Annual Report 2002/03
This paper discusses the Commission's concerns over the continuing rise in family and social welfare law costs, as well as its objectives to help families and children get quality legal services and access to justice.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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TSO (The Stationery Office)
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July 10, 2003
State Welfare Waiver Evaluations: Will They Increase Our Understanding of the Impact of Welfare Reform on Children?
This report discusses weaknesses in welfare waiver evaluations.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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National Center for Children in Poverty
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1996
The Effect of State TANF Choices on Grandparent-Headed Households
This paper examines welfare policies pertaining to benefit levels, time limits, work requirements and support enforcement, and looks at how they affect grandparent-headed households.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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AARP
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November 2000
Back to Which Future? The US Aging Crisis Revisited
This paper reviews and analyses research pertaining to the demographic, health and economic impacts of the aging population in America.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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AARP Public Policy Institute
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December 2002
Taxes, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Marital Status
This paper examines the effect of tax incentives and welfare waivers on people's decisions about marriage and divorce.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Joint Center for Poverty Research
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August 2000
Does it Pay to Move from Welfare to Work?
This study of single mothers in the United States found that women who left welfare for work, or who combined both welfare and work, were financially better off than those who relied solely on welfare.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Population Studies Center
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Revised April 2000
All the Ties that Bind: Race, Ethnicity, and Why Families Support Adult Children
This paper discusses racial and ethnic differences in parental support for adult children, and investigates factors that influence parents' decisions to support some of their children but not others.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Population Studies Center
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September 2001
What Explains Race and Ethnic Differences in Family Financial Transfers to Adult Children?
This paper discusses the differential rate of parental economic support for adult children between racial groups, and demonstrates that African-American and Hispanic parents give less than white parents.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Population Studies Center
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September 2001
Financial Transfers from Parents to Adult Children: Issues of Who is Helped and Why
This paper suggests that parents are more likely to help their adult children financially if they feel that their children are dependent on them, or if they feel that their children will be able to reciprocate in the future.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Population Studies Center
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September 2001
After Welfare Reform and an Economic Boom: Why is Child Poverty Still So Much Higher in the U.S. Than in Europe?
This paper discusses the post-1996 welfare reforms in the United States and their impact on child poverty levels.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Population Studies Center
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June 2002
What Has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure
This comprehensive study of the effects of welfare reform in the United States finds that these reforms contributed to reduced welfare reliance, increased family income, and decreased poverty.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Population Studies Center
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December 2003
Does Aid Matter? Measuring the Effect of Student Aid on College Attendance and Completion
This paper provides evidence that the provision of financial aid does increase college attendance, particularly among low-income, black Americans.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government
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September 2001
Family Income and Child Well Being
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey on Youth, this paper examines the occurences of child poverty in Canada and focuses on two questions 1) What if producing healthy children was the main objective of anti-poverty efforts? and 2) What should governments-and other partners- be doing to foster healthy child development?
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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ISUMA
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Autumn 2000
Nontraditional Undergraduates
This report provides information on "nontraditional" undergraduates, defined as those who begin post-secondary education later in life, often while married, parenting and/or working full time.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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National Center for Education Statistics
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August 2002
Sole Parents, Income Support and Family Wellbeing
This paper examines the characteristics of Australia's single-parent population and discusses the effects that financial assistance has on their well-being.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Centre for Economic Policy Research
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October 1999
The Characteristics of Families Remaining on Welfare
This paper studies the characteristics of women who remain on welfare, and compares them to those of ex-welfare recipients in terms of employment status, income, education, health, and experiences of domestic violence.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Johns Hopkins University
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February 2002
Family Relationships and Intergenerational Exchange Later in Life
This paper examines intergenerational family relationships, including emotional and financial support, the care of elderly parents, and dependant children.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Australian Institute of Family Studies
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July 1998
Reliance on Income Support in Australia: Prevalence and Persistence
This paper explores the definition, extent, and consequence of welfare reliance in Australia.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
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May 2002
Extending Health Care Coverage to the Low-Income Population: The Influence of the Wisconsin BadgerCare Program on Labor Market Outcomes
This paper examines the effects of expanded eligibility for public health care insurance on the employment and earnings of low-income single mothers in Wisconsin.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Institute for the Study of Labor
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March 2005
A Forgotten Issue: Distributional Effects of Day Care Subsidies in Germany
This paper looks at which groups benefit most significantly from generous child care subsidies in Germany.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Institute for the Study of Labor
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September 2000
At the Lower End of the Table: Determinants of Poverty among Immigrants to Denmark and Sweden
This paper examines the relative poverty levels of immigrants and native-born citizens in Denmark and Sweden.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Institute for the Study of Labor
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April 2005
Welfare Recipients' Attitudes Towards Welfare, Nonmarital Childbearing, and Work: Implications for Reform?
This paper explores welfare recipients' attitudes toward welfare, childbearing, and employment, as well as the impact of welfare on work and pregnancy.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Urban Institute
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June 2001
The Impact of Welfare Reform on Child Welfare and Child Protective Services: A Literature Review
This paper reviews curernt research on the impact of the 1996 welfare reform on child welfare and protective services in the US.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Child and Family Research Center
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2000
Redesigning the Welfare Mix for Families: Policy Challenges
This paper addresses the need for changes to the welfare policies in response to deepening poverty, an ageing society, restructured labor markets, and a knowledge based economy.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Canadian Policy Research Networks
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February 2003
Exit Routes from Welfare: Examining Barriers to Employment, Demographic and Human Capital Factors
This paper examines the ways in which human capital, obstacles to employment, and demographic characteristics influence women's pathways out of welfare.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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University of Kentucky Center for Population Research
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July 22, 2003
Filling the Poverty Gap, Then and Now
This paper examines the extent to which, over time, public transfers and government assistance have enabled American families to avoid poverty.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research
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September 2003
The Impact of Welfare Programs on Poverty Rates: Evidence from the American States
This paper examines the relationship between welfare receipt and poverty by analysing welfare's work disincentive and income enhancement effects.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research
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2003
Poverty and Macroeconomic Performance Across Space, Race, and Family Structure
This paper examines the effects of welfare reform and the economy on family poverty in the United States.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research
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January 2003
Social Mobility, Life Chances, and the Early Years
This paper examines British social policy in light of research highlighting factors that influence child development in the early years of life.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
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November 2004
Welfare Incomes 2002
This report looks at welfare rates in each Canadian province and territory and provides estimates of income for different types of households.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada
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Spring 2003
Creating Opportunities For The Poor
This public policy review contains several articles relating to approaches to helping the poor and reducing poverty in Canada.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Fraser Institute
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October 2001
The Gender Gap in Poverty in Modern Nations: Single Motherhood, the Market, and the State
This paper examines gender gaps in poverty in several westernized nations and discusses the ways in which single motherhood, earnings inequalities, and the welfare state affect this gap.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The University of California Press
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2002
Affordable Credit: The Way Forward
This report addresses the issue of credit use and heavy credit debt among low-income families and individuals.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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2005
Child Poverty across Industrialized Nations
This paper provides estimates of child poverty rates in 25 developed countries, discusses challenges faced when attempting to measure child poverty and analyses possible reasons for the variation in child poverty rates across industrialized nations.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
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September 1999
Variations in Maternal and Child Well-Being Among Financially-Eligible Mothers by TANF Participation Status
This paper examines the health and financial well-being of single mothers who currently receive, have previously received, or have never received Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) over the course of one year.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Eastern Economic Association
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Winter 2004
Why did the Welfare Caseload Decline?
This paper examines the effects of specific welfare policies and of the economy on the decline in the welfare caseload after the 1996 welfare reforms in the United States.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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National Poverty Center
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June 2004
Towards an Understanding of the Impact of Welfare Reform on Children with Disabilities and Their Families: Setting a Research and Policy Agenda
This article reviews the characteristics of welfare-reliant families who have disabled children and it explores the particular ways in which these families are affected by welfare reforms.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Society for Research in Child Development
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2002
Leaving Home Ain’t Easy: A Comparative Longitudinal Analysis of ECHP Data
This paper examines the effects of income, employment, and parental resources on young adults' decision to leave their parents' home and live independently.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
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December 2001
A Study of Regulated Child Care Supply in Illinois and Maryland
This report describes the availability of adequate child care to low-income families in Illinois and Maryland.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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National Center for Children in Poverty
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1997
State Policy Choices: Assets and Access to Public Assistance
This fact sheet discusses the difficulties low-income families have accessing public assistance when facing financial crisis, such as a sudden short-term loss of employment.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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National Center for Children in Poverty
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October 2003
Scant Increases After Welfare Reform: Regulated Child Care Supply in Illinois and Maryland, 1996-1998
This report compares and contrasts the changes in the supply of regulated child care between 1996 and 1998 in Illinois and Maryland.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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National Center for Children in Poverty
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June 2000
Policies Affecting New York City's Low-Income Families
This report discusses some of the welfare policy and program changes in New York City.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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National Center for Children in Poverty
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October 2001
Patterns and Growth of Child Care Voucher Use by Families Connected to Cash Assistance in Illinois and Maryland
This paper examines families in Illinois and Maryland who are or were previously receiving cash assistance.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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National Center for Children in Poverty
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May 1999
Low-Income Families in Pennsylvania: Results from the Family Resource Simulator
This report uses the Family Resource Simulator to discuss the financial difficulties faced by low-income families in Pennsylvania.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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National Center for Children in Poverty
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June 2004
Low-Income Families in Georgia: Results from the Family Resource Simulator
This report uses the Family Resource Simulator to discuss the financial difficulties faced by low-income families in Georgia.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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National Center for Children in Poverty
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May 2004
Low-Income Families in Connecticut: Results from the Family Resource Simulator
This report uses the Family Resource Simulator to discuss the financial difficulties faced by low-income families in Connecticut.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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National Center for Children in Poverty
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February 2004
Social Policy to Address Poverty
This paper discusses the pervasive nature of poverty in South Africa and examines two social policies, education and social security, that it argues are central to improving the economic well-being of the poor.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Development Policy Research Unit
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August 1999
Children and Welfare Reform: Anticipating the Effects of Federal and State Welfare Changes on Systems that Serve Children
This paper is the second brief in a series that discusses children and welfare reform in order to help policymakers, community leaders, and advocates.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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National Center for Children in Poverty
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1997
Economic Resources and Single Motherhood: Incidence and Resolution of Premarital Childbearing among Young American Women
This paper examines the effect of economic resources on the likelihood of nonmarital childbearing and family formation outcomes after an out-of-wedlock birth.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
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December 2000
Estimates for Poverty Alleviation in South Africa, with An Application to a Universal Income Grant
This paper calculates the minimum governmental financial contribution necessary to eliminate poverty in South Africa, assesses the potential financial benefits of a universal income grant, and discusses the likely cost of such an intervention.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Development Policy Research Unit
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April 2003
Susbtance Use Among Persons in Families Receiving Government Assistance
This brief report discusses the characteristics of families receiving assistance and compares their rates of drug and alcohol use to those of unassisted families.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Office of Applied Studies: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
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April 19, 2002
Child Support and TANF Interaction: Literature Review
This report reviews existing literature on the role of child support payments in enabling welfare-reliant families to attain self-sufficiency.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
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April 11, 2003
Implementing Welfare Reform Requirements for Teenage Parents: Lessons from Experience in Four States
This report examines the effectiveness of several state welfare policies that require teenage mothers receiving cash assistance to attend school and live with their parents or in an adult-supervised environment.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
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October 31, 1997
Income of Canadian Families
This paper examines the incomes and economic situations of Canadian families.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Statistics Canada
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May 13, 2003
Globalization and Family Security
This paper examines the impact of globalization on the security of the family in areas such as employment, production, and family stressors.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Canadian Policy Research Networks
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February 23, 1993
Analysis of Alternative Financial Service Providers
This paper examines the availability and use of alternative financial providers, such as pawnshops, cash-chequing outlets, and payday tenders.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Urban Institute, Fannie Mae Foundation
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February 19, 2004
Financial Work Incentives for Low-Wage Workers: Encouraging Work, Reducing Poverty, and Benefiting Families
This study examines the effectiveness of various government incentive programs to encourage employment among low-wage, low-skill workers.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Joint Center for Poverty Research
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December 06, 2001
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Labor Market Participation of Families on Welfare
This study examines the effectiveness of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a wage-based tax credit implemented as part of welfare reform in the United States.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Joint Center for Poverty Researc
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January 31, 2001
Welfare Reforms, Family Resources, and Child Maltreatment
This paper looks at how welfare reforms affect the incidence of child abuse and neglect.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Center for Health and Wellbeing
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December 19, 2001
Child Benefits Levels in 2003 and Beyond: Australia, Canada, the UK and the US
This paper analyzes the child-related tax and child benefits income security system for Australia, Canada, the UK and the US.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Caledon Institute of Social Policy
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April 01, 2003
Ottawa Should Expand the Canada Child Tax Benefit
This presentation to the Commons Subcommittee on Children and Youth at Risk critiques the Canada Child Tax Benefits as a form to build a strong income support and security system for Canadian families.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Caledon Institute of Social Policy
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June 06, 2001
Subsidizing Child Care for Low-Income Families Choices: A good bargain for Canadian Governments
The study’s main objective is to review the current child care subsidy system and highlight the main directions shaping its evolution.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Institute for Research on Public Policy
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May 01, 1998
Social Security, Ageing and Income Distribution in Australia
This paper describes Australia's retirement income system and looks at trends in income levels, composition and distribution among aged people.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling
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August 01, 1999
Self Provision in Retirement? Forecasting Future Household Wealth
This paper looks at the costs to the government of an ageing population and investigates the ability of older people to provide for themselves in retirement.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling
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December 01, 2003
The Role of Parental Work in Child Poverty
This paper explores the impact of increased parental work on reducing child poverty in the United States.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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The Heritage Foundation
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January 27, 2003
AbstractRe/Working Benefits: Continuation of Non-Cash Benefits Support for Single Mothers and Disabled Women
This study asked single mothers and women with disabilities about the importance of the non-cash benefits that they received while on welfare, such as childcare, housing, and transportation.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Status of Women Canada, Policy Research Fund
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February 01, 2003
The Direct and Indirect Effects of Unemployment on Poverty and Inequality
This paper discusses the complex and various ways that unemployment contributes to poverty and inequality, and examines how the current debate over welfare reform in Australia is affected by these findings.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Social Policy Research Council
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December 01, 2002
Children in Single-Parent Families Living in Poverty Have Fewer Supports After Welfare Reform
The authors argue that welfare reform has resulted in increased hardship for children in poor single-parent families as access to benefits, such as health insurance, cash assistance, and food stamps, has become much more difficult.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Institute for Women's Policy Research
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September 01, 2002
Do Financial Incentives Encourage Welfare Recipients to Work? Initial 18-Month Findings from the Self-Sufficiency Project
This report examines the impact of the Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) on employment, wages, and well-being of single parent families.
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Category:
Family Economics > Family Assistance
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Human Resources Development Canada
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February 01, 1996
Targeting the Most Vulnerable: A Decade of Desperation for Ontario's Welfare Recipients
This paper emphasizes the need for change within Ontario's welfare system and argues that it is not adequately meeting the needs of its population.
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