Welfare Reform In California
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Author | : Jacob Alex Klerman |
Publisher | : Rand Corporation |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2003-09-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0833035967 |
Examines the effects of the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program on work activity participation rates of welfare recipients, welfare caseloads, and outcomes for welfare leavers. While the CalWORKs reforms appear to have been responsible for some of the uniform improvement in outcomes shown by the analysis, the robust economy and other policy changes were probably also important.
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Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2001 |
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The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) fundamentally changed the American welfare system, replacing the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. PRWORA deliberately and decisively shifted the authority to shape welfare programs from the federal government to the individual states. California's response to PRWORA was the California Work and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program-a "work-first" program that provides support services to help recipients move from welfare to work and toward self-sufficiency. To encourage prompt transitions to work and self-sufficiency, CalWORKs, like PRWORA, also imposes life-time limits on the receipt of aid by adults. Finally, CalWORKs devolves much of the responsibility and authority for implementation to California's 58 counties, increasing counties' flexibility and financial accountability in designing their welfare programs. The California Department of Social Services (CDSS)-the state agency responsible for welfare-contracted with RAND for an independent evaluation of CalWORKs to assess both the process and the impact of the legislation, at both the state and county levels.
Author | : California. Department of Social Welfare |
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Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Public welfare |
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Author | : Jacob Alex Klerman |
Publisher | : RAND Corporation |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Aid to families with dependent children programs |
ISBN | : 9780833030467 |
Early findings on the impact of CALWORKS, California's welfare reform program.
Author | : Jacob Alex Klerman |
Publisher | : RAND Corporation |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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This report describes the implementation of California's Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program in its first two years. According to the CalWORKs welfare-to-work model, immediately following the approval of the aid application, nearly all recipients search for jobs in the context of Job Clubs. For those who do not find employment through job search, an intensive assessment and a sequence of activities follow, to identify and overcome barriers to employment. Implementation in most counties is proceeding more slowly than some observers had hoped, but about as fast as could realistically be expected. County welfare districts (CWDs) face the dual challenge of expanding their capacity to deal with the new, higher, steady-state workload that CalWORKs entails and handling the much larger one-time surge of old cases as they move through the system. Providing mandated support services--child care and transportation; education and training; and treatment for alcohol and substance abuse, mental health, and domestic abuse--has been a challenge for most CWDs. To cope with this expanded workload, they have made different capacity-building decisions. The slow pace of movement through the system is worrisome, however, given the five-year lifetime limit that aid recipients face. Finally, those who have found jobs often do not earn enough to move them completely off aid and toward self-sufficiency. Additional post-employment services appear to be needed.. (MP)
Author | : Chuck Lieberman |
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Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : California |
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Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Labor |
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Author | : Gail Zellman |
Publisher | : RAND Corporation |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Law |
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The California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program is California's response to the welfare reforms Congress set in motion in 1996. The most visible features of this program are its emphasis on moving welfare recipients from reliance on government cash assistance to work and toward self-sufficiency; its use of time limits and participation requirements; its provision of certain services, such as child care and job search assistance, to make participation easier; and its devolution of program authority from the state to the county level. This executive summary focuses on the four themes that have emerged from the authors' work to date: (1) Organizations have changed in response to the expanded mission of CalWORKs, despite limited time for planning. (2) Implementation is under way, but recipient compliance is low. (3) Counties currently have sufficient funds, but this may change. (4) Achieving earnings needed to achieve self-sufficiency before time limits expire is a challenge.
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Labor |
ISBN | : 9780833027221 |
Author | : Thomas E. MaCurdy |
Publisher | : Public Policy Instit. of CA |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Aid to families with dependent children programs |
ISBN | : 0965318435 |