Voices of Welfare Reform: Bureaucratic Rationality Versus the Perceptions of Welfare Participants

Tickamyer, Ann R.; Henderson, Debra A.; White, Julie; Tadlock, Barry L.

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“…As suggested by other research, transportation was a greater impediment for welfare clients in rural counties (Pindus, 2001;Tickamyer et al, 2000;Transit Cooperative Research Program, 1998). Public transit systems serve nine metropolitan areas of Kentucky such as Louisville, Lexington, and Owensboro (Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, 1999).…”

Section: Transportationmentioning

confidence: 84%

Implementing Welfare Reform in Rural and Urban Communities

Arsneault

2006

The American Review of Public Administration

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This piece argues that the very nature of rural poverty and the communities in which the rural poor live influence the administration of welfare programs that were designed to address urban poverty. Using in-depth interviews with case managers in urban and rural Kentucky along with statistical analysis from Kentucky's 120 counties, this study shows the very real challenges faced by administrators and highlights the challenges faced in both rural and urban communities. Importantly for public administration, resource constraints, the number of clientele served, geographic distances, and sense of community differently affect the implementation of welfare policy by place. The author suggests that because of the unique aspects of rural poverty, the welfare poor in rural communities may be best served by rules that emphasize local program variation.

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Section: Transportationmentioning

confidence: 84%

Implementing Welfare Reform in Rural and Urban Communities

Arsneault

2006

The American Review of Public Administration

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“…The element that distinguishes their perceptions from those of recipients interviewed in other recent studies (Davis & Hagen, 1996;Nelson, 2002;Seccombe & Battle-Walters, 1998;Tickameyer, 2000) is their use of race to understand their perceptions of problematic interactions within the system that administers welfare benei'its. As was found in the studies noted, women in this study were well aware of the negative popular images of welfare recipients and of the stigma associated with receipt of the benefit.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…al., 1998;Tickameyer, 2000;) illuminate how women on welfare have been forced to justify their own use of the benefit by distancing themselves from the stereotypical "lazy and dependent welfare mother," but less is known about how race factors into the perceptions of white recipients. If the prevailing stereotype is that welfare recipients are African-American, how do poor white welfare recipients interpret receipt of the benefit?…”

Section: Literature Review Race Welfare and Prejudicementioning

confidence: 97%

“A Black Benefit”: Racial Prejudice Among White Welfare Recipients in a Low-Income Neighborhood

Cleaveland

2008

Journal of Progressive Human Services

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Welfare has been stigmatized as a benefit for poor AfricanAmericans, in particular for blacks accused of sexual promiscuity and a weak work ethic. Stigma has been found to demoralize welfare recipients, alienate middle-class voters who resent tax expenditures for public assistance, and fuel conservative support for legislation limiting welfare. This article describes another aspect of the stigmatization of welfare as a "black benefit"-the belief by some poor whites that they have experienced racial discrimination when trying to access cash assistance and other benefits. Drawing on data gathered as part of a larger, 18-month qualitative study, this article examines how impoverished whites in Philadelphia view welfare receipt and race. Ugly racial epithets and stereotypes were typically used when describing frustration over lack of access to welfare and other social services.

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“…The primary reason for replacing Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), the 60-year-old entitlement program created under the Social Security Act, with TANF was to decrease welfare dependency through employment (Tickamyer, 2000). The four principal components of TANF included ending the guarantee of cash assistance to needy families, eliminating nonfunded federal mandates through implementation of TANF block grants to states, establishing a lifetime limit of 60 months for receiving federal TANF funds, and penalizing states that do not comply with the mandates for work requirements (Albelda, 1996).…”

Section: Barriers To Earned Incomementioning

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Income Barriers Faced by Individuals in Receipt of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

Sullivan

Larrison

2003

Journal of Health & Social Policy

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Research surrounding welfare to work programs suggests a number of potential factors that mediate welfare dependency ranging from a person's degree of employment barriers to their psychological well-being. This study explores how employment barriers, health barriers, background barriers, human capital barriers, and psychological well-being of individuals in receipt of TANF are related to earned income. Findings indicate that employment barriers, background barriers, human capital, and perceived locus of control are significant factors in determining welfare recipients' future earned income. Other barriers including physical health and psychological well-being such as depression, happiness, life satisfaction and optimism were not strong predictors of earned income.

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Voices of Welfare Reform: Bureaucratic Rationality Versus the Perceptions of Welfare Participants

Cited by 34 publications

References 2 publications

Implementing Welfare Reform in Rural and Urban Communities

Implementing Welfare Reform in Rural and Urban Communities

“A Black Benefit”: Racial Prejudice Among White Welfare Recipients in a Low-Income Neighborhood

Income Barriers Faced by Individuals in Receipt of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

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