Managing Welfare Reform in Five States: The Challenge of Devolution

Managing Welfare Reform in Five States: The Challenge of Devolution
ISBN-10
1438436394
ISBN-13
9781438436395
Category
Political Science
Pages
152
Language
English
Published
2000-10-01
Publisher
Rockefeller Institute Press
Author
Sarah F. Liebschutz

Description

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 presented challenges to all states to alter their welfare programs and management systems. This book features similarities as well as differences in their implementation of welfare reform, within the context of their distinctive historical, political, cultural, economic, and demographic experiences. Public support for moving welfare recipients to work forms the common overlay; reorganized state-level administrative structures and diverse local management and service arrangements differentiate them. The book chapters provide an in-depth account of welfare reform, its complex workings, and the important role played by political leaders at state and local levels in Florida, Mississippi, New York, Washington, and Wisconsin.

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