The impacts of welfare reform on federal assistance to persistently poor children

Grieger, Lloyd; Wyse, Jessica J.

doi:10.1080/10796126.2013.843509

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“…This leads to very different life-course sequencing trajectories (Gustafsson 2001). Without a transformation of the life-course patterns of women at risk of becoming single mothers toward behaviors that will better prepare them for a stable employment trajectory, it is unclear that their children will be provided with a minimum standard of living under the current welfare and family-policy regime (Scott et al 2004; Grieger and Wyse 2013).…”

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First Birth before First Stable Employment and Subsequent Single-Mother “Disconnection” before and after the Welfare Reform and Great Recession

Rendall

Shattuck

2018

Journal of Poverty

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We analyze data from two nationally-representative U.S. surveys that include cohorts of young women before and after the 1996 Welfare Reform. Women were more likely to have their first birth precede their first stable employment after than before the reform. Women with this life-course sequence were at higher risk of single motherhood and, as single mothers, were at higher risk of ‘disconnection’ simultaneously from earned income and public cash benefits. Declines in employment in the Great-Recession period resulted in ‘disconnection’ for between a fifth and a quarter of single mothers who did not experience stable employment before their first birth.

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First Birth before First Stable Employment and Subsequent Single-Mother “Disconnection” before and after the Welfare Reform and Great Recession

Rendall

Shattuck

2018

Journal of Poverty

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“…A decade earlier, during the roaring economy of the mid-1990s, American social welfare policy shifted from an entitlement regime to one based on wage-supplements, meaning that eligibility for poverty assistance was now dependent on maintaining a job (Grieger and Wyse 2013). The main Federal anti-poverty programs -cash assistance to the poor via the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) -all required recipients to be earning wages from unsubsidized work.…”

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New Social Program Participation During the Great Recession: The Case of SNAP*

Grieger

2017

Social Science Quarterly

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Objectives -It is unknown if the explosion in SNAP usage during the Great Recession was due to an inflow of new participants or instead because former participants cycled back onto the program. It is also unknown if the profiles of new and return participants differed on a set of core demographic characteristics including race/ethnicity, gender, education, age, household configuration and location.Methods -I examine the complete adult SNAP participation histories for a nationally representative cross-section of 7,680 individuals at the end of the Great Recession. Data are from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics with observations spanning the period 1968-2010.Results -A large number of adult SNAP participants used the program for the first time during the Great Recession. New participants were not solely young

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Poor for How Long? Chronic Versus Transient Child Poverty in the United States

Kimberlin

Berrick

2015

Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research

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The impacts of welfare reform on federal assistance to persistently poor children

Cited by 4 publications

References 31 publications

First Birth before First Stable Employment and Subsequent Single-Mother “Disconnection” before and after the Welfare Reform and Great Recession

First Birth before First Stable Employment and Subsequent Single-Mother “Disconnection” before and after the Welfare Reform and Great Recession

New Social Program Participation During the Great Recession: The Case of SNAP*

Poor for How Long? Chronic Versus Transient Child Poverty in the United States

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