State TANF Spending: Predictors of State Tax Effort to Support Welfare Reform

Rodgers, Harrell R.; Tedin, Kent L.

doi:10.1111/j.1541-1338.2006.00227.x

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“…Some states have adopted comprehensive, sophisticated welfare reform policies designed to help their poor and low‐income citizens transition into the job market, while others have done the bare minimum (Meyers, Gornick, & Peck, 2002). Some states are spending rather generously on TANF and its support programs, while other states are maintaining only their required spending despite high and persistent poverty rates and the availability of federal and often state funds with which to combat the problem (Rodgers, 2005; Rodgers & Tedin, 2006).…”

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“…As a legacy of restrictive federalism under AFDC, Southern states did not develop the government capacity of most of the other states. As Table 1 shows, today, the states of the former Confederacy are prominent among those states that provide the least sophisticated, inclusive, and supportive welfare programs; spend below capacity; and have limited income support programs (Meyers et al., 2002; Rodgers, 2005; Rodgers & Tedin, 2006).…”

Section: Issues Of Federalism and Racementioning

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No Race in Any Direction: State Welfare and Income Regimes

Rodgers

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Payne

2008

Policy Studies Journal

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This paper has two objectives. First, we examine state adoption and implementation of income support policies under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. We develop a composite measure of income support that includes welfare programs that scholars traditionally investigate and adds optional policies that encourage independence through work. Second, we engage a substantive focus on the administrative ability and willingness of states to adopt and implement sophisticated income support policies. We investigate the extent to which state government professionalism, ideology, economic resources, and racially based policies have shaped state policy. We find that the percentage of the state population is liberal; state racial demographics and governmental professionalism are critical determinants of state welfare and income support regimes. Significantly, we find no evidence that states are converging toward high‐quality, effectively financed welfare policies or income regime policies to help the poor move into and economically survive in the job market.

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Section: Issues Of Federalism and Racementioning

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No Race in Any Direction: State Welfare and Income Regimes

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Payne

2008

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“…Complementing historical analyses of how racial division undermined progressive social policies throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, recent empirical studies of the link between racial composition and levels of redistributive social spending have found a consistent inverse (and arguably causal) relationship (Orr 1976; Cutler, Elmendorf, and Zeckhauser 1993; Ribar and Wilhelm 1996; Poterba 1997; Alesina, Baqir, and Easterly 1999; Alesina, Glaeser, and Sacerdote 2001; Alesina and Glaeser 2004; Rodgers and Tedin 2006). Alesina, Glaeser, and Sacerdote (2001) demonstrate, for example, that redistributive social spending is lower when beneficiaries are disproportionately from minority backgrounds and find that this association holds both within and between countries.…”

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“…This association has been documented in analyses of public spending both within and between countries (see, e.g., Alesina, Baqir, and Easterly 1999; Alesina, Glaeser and Sacerdote 2001; Alesina and Glaeser 2004). In the United States, for example, racial composition is an important predictor of cash welfare spending across states, net of a host of other factors (see, e.g., Rodgers and Tedin 2006). Although cash assistance is a critical component of welfare state policy, total welfare spending in the United States is substantially less than the direct cash transfers to low-income households delivered through the tax code in the form of refundable tax credits.…”

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Redistribution and the New Fiscal Sociology: Race and the Progressivity of State and Local Taxes

O’Brien

2017

American Journal of Sociology

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States redistribute wealth through two mechanisms: spending and taxation. Yet studies of the social determinants of redistribution typically focus exclusively on government spending. This article explores how one determinant of social spending—racial composition—influences preferences for, and the structure of, tax systems. First, analyses of state and local tax burden data indicate that an increasing proportion of Latinos within states is associated with more regressive tax systems. Second, evidence from a nationally representative survey experiment suggests that individual preferences for taxation may be influenced by changes in the racial composition of communities. Finally, analyses reveal that in-group solidarity is a key mechanism through which racial threat shapes preferences for taxation. In demonstrating a relationship between racial change, tax preferences, and tax structures, this article contributes to our under-standing of the determinants of redistribution as well as the broader project of the new fiscal sociology.

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“…Families program [TANF] program (Aratani et al, 2014;Banerjee & Damman, 2013;Bitler et al, 2014;Bloom, Loprest, & Zedlewski, 2011;Rodgers & Tedin, 2006;Sheely, 2012;Siegel, Green, Abbott, Mogul, & Patacsil, 2004). A similar trend is followed with studies related to the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and…”

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Concurrent Participation in Federally-Funded Welfare Programs and Empowerment toward Economic Self-Sufficiency

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All rights reserved.iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I hereby thank the members of my committee for their support, patience, and guidance, all of which were essential to achieving this work. I have been appreciative of their gentle but firm direction throughout the realization of the comprehensive papers, the dissertation proposal, and the dissertation itself. Dr. Barbara Thomlison contributed significantly to the development of this dissertation, mainly in terms of the research rationale, selection of relevant theories and critical analysis of the literature. Dr. Paul H.Stuart was instrumental in identifying poverty as a social problem and tracing the historical development of relevant U.S. social welfare policies put forth to address the problem. Dr. Chris Girard brought a critical perspective in the refinement of the theoretical perspectives, the hypotheses, and the methodology used in this project. although eligible for these benefits-did not receive them. Based on the premises of the theory of policy design and social construction, the culture of poverty theory, the racial classification model, and the social control thesis, the following two hypotheses were formulated: (1) Low-income households who receive one or more lower-tier federal means-tested benefits will be less likely to attain and maintain economic self-sufficiency vii than their counterparts who do not participate in federal welfare programs and (2) Lowincome households that enroll in more welfare programs will have worse self-sufficiency outcomes than their counterparts that participate in fewer programs. The survey respondents were measured repeatedly over a 56-month period to assess whether welfare receipt impacts their household income steadily beyond 150 percent of the federal poverty level, after controlling for known predictors. Findings from binomial logistic regression displayed medium effect sizes indicating that participation in public assistance did decrease the likelihood of attainment and maintenance of economic self-sufficiency among low-income American households. These findings were interpreted within the context of pre-existing differences that may have existed between the intervention group and the comparison group which were not accounted for in the multivariate analysis.

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State TANF Spending: Predictors of State Tax Effort to Support Welfare Reform

Cited by 23 publications

References 16 publications

No Race in Any Direction: State Welfare and Income Regimes

No Race in Any Direction: State Welfare and Income Regimes

Redistribution and the New Fiscal Sociology: Race and the Progressivity of State and Local Taxes

Concurrent Participation in Federally-Funded Welfare Programs and Empowerment toward Economic Self-Sufficiency

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