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Tribal Solutions: Subsidized Employment Programs Serving American Indians and Alaska Natives. OPRE Report 2018-94

Glosser, Asaph; Ellis, Emily – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2018

People served by public assistance programs such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) often have difficulty finding jobs in the competitive labor market. This report describes the ways in which eight TANF programs primarily serving American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) families use subsidized employment. Subsidized employment…

Descriptors: Employment Programs, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Tribes

Welfare Time Limits: An Update on State Policies, Implementation, and Effects on Families

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Farrell, Mary; Rich, Sarah; Turner, Lesley; Seith, David; Bloom, Dan – MDRC, 2008

Time limits on benefit receipt became a central feature of federal welfare policy in the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA). Proponents of welfare reform argued that the time limits in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, would send a firm message to recipients that welfare is…

Descriptors: Employment Services, Family Income, Public Housing, Welfare Recipients

Food Stamp Program: Administrative Hindrances to Participation. Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition, Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives.

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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Resources, Community, and Economic Development Div. – 1988

This report addresses the issue of whether Federal regulations and certain state and local office practices and procedures may discourage or prevent eligible persons from participating in the Food Stamp Program. The report focuses on only those procedures and practices that affect households once they have contacted the local food stamp office for…

Descriptors: Eligibility, Federal Programs, Food, Program Administration

Diversity among State Welfare Programs: Implications for Reform. New Federalism: Issues and Options for States, Series A, No. A-1.

Zedlewski, Sheila; Giannarelli, Linda – 1997

The welfare initiative signed into law in August 1996 replaces Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) with Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). The federal responsibility to match state expenditures on cash assistance to low-income families with children has become a fixed block grant to states with requirements that focus on a…

Descriptors: Block Grants, Change, Employment, Federal Legislation

Moving Forward: Next Steps. Second Report of the Governor's Task Force on Adolescent Pregnancy.

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New York State Council on Children and Families, New York. – 1986

This report analyzes problems in New York State efforts to reduce unwanted adolescent pregnancy and its associated problems. Following an executive summary and introduction, the report consists of five sections. Section 1 details the framework and background for the Task Force recommendations. Section 2 provides an overview of current efforts to…

Descriptors: Adolescents, Early Parenthood, High Schools, Pregnancy

Aiming for Accountability: Florida. Reaching Results.

Horsch, Karen – 1998

Interest is growing in planning and implementing new systems of holding child and family services accountable for results. The Results-Based Accountability (RBA) Project at the Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) has supported and built upon recent state efforts to develop these new accountability systems for child and family services. The RBA…