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TANF OVER 10 YEARS:
It's Not Welfare Anymore
Margy Waller and Shawn Fremstad, The American Prospect Online Edition, August 22, 2006.
Welfare reform, 10 years later
Rachel Gragg and Margy Waller, The Boston Globe, August 22, 2006.
TANF AT 10
Program Results are More Mixed Than Often Understood
Sharon Parrott and Arloc Sherman, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, August 17, 2006.
Ten Years after Welfare Reform, It’s Time to Make Work Work for Families
Evelyn Ganzglass, Center for Law and Social Policy, August 17, 2006.
Looking Forward, Looking Back: Reflections on the 10th Anniversary of Welfare Reform
Nancy K. Cauthen, National Center for Children in Poverty, August 2006.
A Decade of Welfare Reform: Facts and Figures
The Urban Institute, July 26, 2006.
Welfare Reforms Shortcoming
Washington Post, 7/24/06
Getting On, Staying On, and Getting Off Welfare: The Complexity of State-by-State Policy Choices
Linda Giannarellli and Gretchen Rowe, New Federalism, The Urban Institute, July 2006.
Ten Years of Leaving Foster Children Behind:
The Long Decline in Federal Support for Abused and Neglected Children
John Sciamanna, Child Welfare League of America, July 2006.
The Impact of Food Insecurity on the Development of Young Low-Income Black and Latino Children.
Protecting the Health and Nutrition of Young Children of Color:
The Impact of Nutrition Assistance and Income Support Programs.
Children’s Sentinel Nutrition Assessment Program, prepared for the Joint Center for Political and Economic
Studies Health Policy Institute, May, 2006.
Welfare Reform, Success or Failure?
It Worked With Mixed Results
Mark Greenberg, Center for Law and Social Policy, and
Ron Haskins, Center on Children and Families at Brookings Institution, Policy & Practice, March 2006.
CHANGING TANF
Testimony on TANF & Family Income Support
Deborah Weinstein, March 20, 2007
New Goals and Outcomes for Temporary Assistance: State Choices in the Decade after Enactment
Margy Waller and Shawn Fremstad, The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, August 2006.
Resilient and Reaching for More
Challenges and Benefits of Higher Education for Welfare Participants and Their Children
Avis A. Jones-DeWeever and Barbara Gault, Institute for Women's Policy Research, 2006.
Welfare Changes A Burden to States
Work Rules Also Threaten Study, Health Programs
Amy Goldstein, Washington Post, August 7, 2006.
Work-Plus: Boosting the Bottom Line for Low-Wage Working Parents
Family Strengthening Policy Center, an initiative of the National Human Services Assembly, Policy Brief No.15, July 2006.
Implementing the TANF Changes in the Deficit Reduction Act: “Win-Win” Solutions for Families and States
Sharon Parrott, Liz Schott, and Eileen Sweeney, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and
Allegra Baider, Evelyn Ganzglass, Mark Greenberg, Elisa Minoff, and Vicki Turetsky, Center for Law and Social Policy
May 9, 2006 (107 pages).
Taking the High Road: How States Should Meet TANF’s New Participation Standards
Shawn Fremstad and Jason Walsh, The Workforce Alliance, February 28, 2006.
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RECOVERING FROM KATRINA: ONE YEAR LATER
Life After Hurricane Katrina: A Brief on the Chicagoland Katrina Relief Initiative
The Hearland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights, August 2006.
The Katrina Aftermath, One Year Later, BlackAmericaWeb.com.
This five-part series explores the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina one year after it struck the Gulf Coast.
Part One: Race and the New Orleans Economy, Jackie Jones, August 22, 2006.
Part Two: The Crisis in Housing, Michael H. Cottman, August 23, 2006.
GulfGov Reports: One Year Later
Principal Author, Karen Rowley, Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana and
The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, August 22, 2006.
One Year After Katrina
The State of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
Southern Exposure and the Institute for Southern Studies, Special Report, Volume XXXIV, No. 2, 2006.
The New Orleans Index: Tracking Recovery in the Region
Amy Liu, Deputy Director, Metropolitan Policy Program in collaboration with Greater New Orleans Community Data Center.
The Women of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast: Multiple Disadvantages and Key Assets for Recovery
Part I - Poverty, Race, Gender and Class
Barbara Gault, Heidi Hartmann, Avis Jones-DeWeever, Misha Werschkul, and Erica Williams,
Institute for Women's Policy Research, October 2005.
Part II - Gender, Race, and Class in the Labor Market
Erica Williams, Olga Sorokina, Avis Jones-De-Weever, and Heidi Hartman, Institute for Women's Policy Research, August 2006.
The Hutchinson Report: One Year After Katrina, All That Talk About Poverty Was Just That – Talk
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, August 11, 2006.
An Advocate's Guide to the Disaster Food Stamp Program
Food Research and Action Center, July 2006.
Orleans Parish, Louisiana, Child Care Assessment
Shores, E. F., Grace, C., Barbaro, E., Barbaro, M., & Moore, J. (2006).
Orleans Parish, Louisiana, Child Care Assessment; Final report. (Mississippi State University Early Childhood Report No. 2). Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State University Early Childhood Institute.
2005 Gulf Coast Area Data Profiles, American Community Survey, U.S. Census Bureau. June 7, 2006.
Shows demographics, income, employment, and housing data for communities in the region affected by the 2005 hurricanes, comparing the first eight months of the year (pre-storm) to the final three months after the storms hit.
POVERTY ANALYSES and ANTIPOVERTY PROPOSALS
From Poverty to Prosperity: a National Strategy to Cut Poverty in Half
The Center for American Progress, April 25, 2007
The 2007 HHS Poverty Guidelines
CWLA Testimony at the Hearing on the Economic and Societal Costs of Poverty
Before the House of Representatives, Ways and Means Committee, January 24, 2007
The Economic Costs of Poverty:
Subsequent Effects of Children Growing Up Poor
Harry Holzer, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Greg J. Duncan, and Jens Ludwig, Center for American Progress, Jan 24, 2007.
Poverty In America:
Economic Research Shows Adverse Impacts on Health Status and Other Social Conditions as well as the Economic Growth Rate
GAO-07-344, January 2007
Homeland Insecurity . . . American Children at Risk
Michael R. Petit, Every Child Matters Education Fund, December, 2006.
Poverty in America: A Threat to the Common Good
Catholic Charities 2006 Policy Paper, November, 2006.
Poverty's Changing Faces
Bradley R. Schiller, Washington Post, Op-Ed, September 19, 2006.
The State of Working Massachusetts 2006: As the Economy Moves Forward, Wages Fall Back
Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, September 3, 2006.
Real Wages Fail to Match a Rise in Productivity
Steven Greenhouse and David Leonhardt, New York Times, August 28, 2006.
The Impact of Undercounting in the Current Population Survey
John Schmitt and Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research, August 2006.
The Catch-Up Economy
Jared Bernstein, Economic Policy Institute, August 22, 2006.
Concentrated Poverty in New Orleans and Other American Cities
Bruce Katz, The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 4, 2006.
Racial Division and Concentrated Poverty in U.S. Cities
Bruce Katz, Speech to the Urban Age Conference, July 7, 2006.
Task Force on Work, Poverty and Opportunity
Bruce Katz, Speech to the United Sates Conference of Mayors, June 2, 2006.
The War on Poverty and Subsequent Federal Programs: What Worked, What Didn't Work, and Why?
Lessons for Future Programs
Peter Edelman, Clearinghouse Review, May-June 2006.
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