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Title For better and for worse : welfare reform and the well-being of children and families / Greg J. Duncan, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, editors.

Publication Info. New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©2001.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 329 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents For better and for worse: welfare reform and the well-being of children and families / Greg J. Duncan, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale -- Liberal and conservative influences on the welfare reform legislation of 1996 / Ron Haskins -- Welfare reform, management systems, and policy theories of child well-being / Cathy M. Johnson, Thomas L. Gais -- How do state policymakers think about family processes and child development in low-income families? / Kristin Anderson Moore -- Program redesign by states in the wake of welfare reform: making sense of the effects of devolution / Alan Weil -- Sanctions and exits: what states know about families that leave welfare because of sanctions and time limits / Jack Tweedie -- How different are welfare and working families? And do these differences matter for children's achievement? / Greg J. Duncan ... [and others] -- My children come first: welfare-reliant women's post-TANF views of work-family trade-offs and marriage / Ellen K. Scott ... [et al.] -- Does maternal employment mandated by welfare reform affect children's behavior? / Ariel Kalil, Rachel E. Dunifon, Sandra K. Danziger -- Lessons from New Hope: the impact on children's well-being of a work-based antipoverty program for parents / Rashmita S. Mistry ... [et al.] -- How families view and use lump-sum payments from the earned income tax credit / Jennifer L. Romich, Thomas S. Weisner -- Welfare waivers and nonmarital childbearing / Ann E. Horvath-Rose, H. Elizabeth Peters -- Reducing child poverty by improving the work-based safety net / Wendell Primus, Kristina Daugirdas -- Effects of welfare reform at four years / Ron Haskins -- Reforming the social family contract: public support for child learning in the United States / Paula England, Nancy Folbre -- Lessons learned / P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Greg J. Duncan.
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Subject Child welfare -- United States.
Child welfare.
United States.
Family services -- United States.
Family services.
Public welfare -- United States.
Public welfare.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Duncan, Greg J., editor.
Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay, editor.
Other Form: Print version: For better and for worse. New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2001 0871542455 (DLC) 2001041785 (OCoLC)47200413
ISBN 9781610448284 electronic book
1610448286 electronic book
0871542455
9780871542458
0871542633
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