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Welfare Reform and Migration: Moving to Benefits; Moving From Restrictions


  Author: Gordon F. De Jong, Deborah Roempke Graefe
Publisher: Joint Center for Poverty Research
Publication:
Document Date:                  December 2002
Category: Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
Related Categories:
Family Economics > Economic Hardship
Family Economics > Poverty
Family Transitions > Family Relocation
Family Transitions > Migration
Public Policy > Welfare
 

This report discusses the impact of state differentiated welfare reform policies on the migration patterns of American families. It argues that poor families are relocating as a result of inequalities in welfare funding and accessibility, and that these inequalities have created disincentives to live in certain locations.

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