On the Declining Health Status of Welfare Caseloads: Emerging Dilemmas for Serving the Poor

Schmidt, Laura A.; Zabkiewicz, Denise; Henderson, Stuart; Jacobs, Laurie; Wiley, James

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“…28 More information on the data can be found in prior published studies. [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36] The Welfare Client Longitudinal Survey (WCLS) study was approved by institutional review boards at the University of California San Francisco and the Public Health Institute.…”

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Reconsidering the Effects of Poverty and Social Support on Health: A 5-Year Longitudinal Test of the Stress-Buffering Hypothesis

2012

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Prior research in the general population has found that social support can buffer the adverse effects of stressors on health. However, both stressors and social support may be qualitatively different for those living in urban poverty. We examined the effects of social support and poverty-specific stressors on self-rated health. We used data from the Welfare Client Longitudinal Survey (WCLS), a 5-year longitudinal study of 718 public aid recipients. We measured received social support and "net social support," defined as the difference between support received and that given to others. We used restricted cubic splines to model the stress-buffering effects of social support on self-rated health as a function of stressful life events and neighborhood disorder. Increased exposure to stressors was associated with poorer self-rated health. Evidence of stress buffering was confined to those with the heaviest exposure to stressors, and its effects decreased across increasing levels of social support. Analyses using net social support had generally more modest effects than those using received social support. Social support does not buffer the effects of stressors on health uniformly for individuals living in conditions of urban poverty. Researchers and policymakers should be cautious in overestimating the beneficial effects that social support may have on health for marginalized populations.

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Reconsidering the Effects of Poverty and Social Support on Health: A 5-Year Longitudinal Test of the Stress-Buffering Hypothesis

2012

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“…Welfare reform led to a spate of new policies that police and sanction poor women who drink or use other intoxicants: requirements for abstinence pledges as a condition of receiving aid, lifelong denial public aid for those with a drug felony conviction, routine drug‐testing of welfare applicants, and compulsory addiction treatment for those who do not adequately seek work outside the home [48]. Subsequent studies have documented that aid recipients who use alcohol or drugs continue to be economically and socially disadvantaged in the reformed welfare system [51–53].…”

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The equal right to drink

Schmidt

2014

Drug and Alcohol Review

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The starting place for this essay is Knupfer and Room's insight that more restrictive norms around drinking and intoxication tend to be selectively applied to the economically dependent segments of society, such as women. However, since these authors wrote in 1964, women in the US and many other societies around the globe have experienced rising economic independence. The essay considers how the moral categories of acceptable drinking and drunkenness may have shifted alongside women's rising economic independence, and looks at evidence on the potential consequences for women's health and wellbeing. I argue that, as women have gained economic independence, changes in drinking norms have produced two different kinds of negative unintended consequences for women at high and low extremes of economic spectrum. As liberated women of the middle and upper classes have become more economically equal to men, they have enjoyed the right to drink with less restraint. For them, alongside the equal right to drink has come greater equality in exposure to alcohol-attributable harms, abuse and dependence. I further suggest that, as societies become more liberated, the economic dependency of low-income women is brought into greater question. Under such conditions, women in poverty-particularly those economically dependent on the state, such as welfare mothers-have become subject to more restrictive norms around drinking and intoxication, and more punitive social controls.

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“…SE program participants are often welfare recipients who have a history of poverty along with disproportionately high rates of mental illness, stress, and trauma (Danziger, Kalil, & Anderson, 2000;Schmidt, Zabkiewicz, Henderson, Jacobs, & Wiley, 2011;Sweeney, 2000). When managing the multiple life stressors and competing demands associated with trauma and poverty, prioritizing work over commitments to individuals in a family or social network becomes extremely difficult.…”

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Employer Perspectives on the Role of Soft Skills in Subsidized Employment Relationships

Carnochan

Taylor

Pascual³

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Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Service

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TitleEmployer perspectives on the role of soft skills in subsidized employment relationships The dual objective of subsidized employment programs is to support employers and low-income job seekers. However, few studies of these programs have examined employer perspectives or reflected critically on the role of soft skills in relationships between employers and subsidized employees. This qualitative study examined employer perspectives on soft skills, drawing on the concept of fit from the person-in-environment perspective, as framed by personnel psychology, to interpret the findings. Employers emphasized the importance of motivation, self-presentation, and interpersonal skills. They described the effect of these characteristics and behaviors on workplace interactions, as they sought employees whose similarity offered a supplementary fit. The findings suggest recommendations for improving subsidized employment programs, as well as implications for social work education and research.

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On the Declining Health Status of Welfare Caseloads: Emerging Dilemmas for Serving the Poor

Cited by 3 publications

References 29 publications

Reconsidering the Effects of Poverty and Social Support on Health: A 5-Year Longitudinal Test of the Stress-Buffering Hypothesis

Reconsidering the Effects of Poverty and Social Support on Health: A 5-Year Longitudinal Test of the Stress-Buffering Hypothesis

The equal right to drink

Employer Perspectives on the Role of Soft Skills in Subsidized Employment Relationships

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