History, Hysteria, and Hype: Government Contracting with Faith-Based Social Service Agencies

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Abstract:In light of the adoption of the Charitable Choice Provision of the Welfare Reform Bill and the creation of White House Offices on faith based initiatives this article examines the history of government contracting with faith-based organizations to deliver human and social services with a particular focus on how the U. S. Supreme Court has viewed the legal status of such contracts.

Examining Low-Income Single-Mother Families’ Experiences with Family Benefit Packages during and after the Great Recession in the United States

“…In this, he referenced racist stereotypes of Black people as lazy and irresponsible (Seccombe 1999). The welfare reform law of 1996 included a turn toward for community-oriented, faith-based initiatives, which resulted in increased involvement of religious social service agencies for anti-poverty 2 of 19 services, increasing the social safety net system's fragmentation (Gilman 2006;Queen 2017). Welfare reform also dismantled the need-based system in favor of a "work-based" system in which work has become a condition for public cash benefits for working-aged adults (Danziger et al 2016;Hardy et al 2018).…”