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Empowering the Incapacitated Worker? The Employment and Support Allowance and Pathways to Work March 19, 2009

2007 [Industrial Law Journal]: Methods to drastic improve the empowerment of employees in any setting.

The Power of Supervision in Child Welfare Services March 19, 2009

2004 [Child and Youth Care Forum]: This study examines factors influencing the empowerment of child welfare workers. It correlates relationships among workers' perceptions of supervisors' help-giving behaviors, perceptions of agency support, and their perceived empowerment.

Family empowerment: One outcome of cooperative preschool education March 19, 2009

1997 [Child Welfare]: Although longitudinal evaluations of academic preschools have consistently demonstrated significant and substantial long-term benefits for children, the effect of the preschool experience on parents who are required to participate has not been examined.

Women welfare and empowerment in India; vision for 21st century March 19, 2009

2008 [Reference & Research Book News]: Although efforts have been made over the years by the Indian government to empower women socially, economically, and politically, enactment of legislation has been difficult to implement due to the vastness of the country, the wide distribution of the female workforce, lack of education and literacy, and the indifferent attitude of government bureaucracy.

Logics of Empowerment March 19, 2009

2008 [University of Minnesota Press]: Celebratory news features about India’s thriving middle class tell only part of the story of the country’s recent economic rise, frequently glossing over the 300 million Indians who live on the margins and struggle to survive under economic liberalization. How do those cast out of their country’s successes perceive and respond to their position and mobilize against disempowerment?

Consumer Empowerment and Welfare with Respect to Mortgage Servicers March 19, 2009

2008 [Journal of Consumer Affairs]: Mortgage servicers, firms that collect and distribute homeowners’ mortgage interest, principal, and escrowed taxes and insurance, are prone to mistakes and may engage in predatory practices that negatively affect consumer welfare.

The gender issue in energy project planning Welfare, empowerment or efficiency? March 19, 2009

1998 [Energy Policy]: The gap between gender policy as adopted by governments and donors, and the inclusion of gender issues in energy planning practice at project level, is great, despite the fact that there are many manuals available which demonstrate how to go about gathering gender-based data and analysing this. This gap is partly due to difficulties in translating policy into achievable objectives at project level, which in itself is due to differences of opinion on what the motive is for including gender as a variable.

Incentives for reducing welfare dependency discussed at conference March 19, 2009

1993 [Stanford University]: Welfare benefits may discourage some people from working, but the widely held belief that typical welfare mothers "make welfare a way of life" is exaggerated, according to some of the economic experts and state government officials who met at Stanford University May 14-15 for a conference on California welfare policy .

Has ‘Welfare Dependency’ Increased? March 19, 2009

1997 [University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty]: This paper uses the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1975 to 1992 to measure changes in the distribution of years of receipt of AFDC.

Women, Welfare Dependency, and Work in the United States March 19, 2009

2005 [The Midwest Political Science Association]: This study discredits welfare dependency as a lack of work ethic. It examines the family ethic. The family ethic which saddles women with child care responsibilities makes workfare without child care unrealistic.

Time on Welfare and Welfare Dependency March 19, 2009

1996 [Urban Institute]: I plan to address four aspects of this issue. First, the total time families spend on the welfare rolls. Second, the percentage of the AFDC caseload which may be affected by time limits. Third, the factors associated with long-term welfare receipt. Finally, I will discuss some implications of this information for reforming the welfare system.

Indicators of Welfare Dependence March 19, 2009

2006 [Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation]: The purpose of this report is to address questions concerning the extent to which American families depend on income from welfare programs. Under the Welfare Indicators Act, HHS was directed to address the rate of welfare dependency, the degree and duration of welfare recipiency and dependence, and predictors of welfare dependence.

WELFARE AND THE CULTURE OF POVERTY March 19, 2009

1996 [CATO Institute]: Welfare is both a consequence and a cause of several conditions best described as social pathologies. These conditions include dependency, poverty, out-of-wedlock births, nonemployment, abortion, and violent crime. The basic hypothesis of this study is that welfare dependency and the other pathologies are jointly determined and are derivative of a common set of other conditions.

Prevention of Welfare Dependency -- An Overview March 19, 2009

2001 [Welfare Information Network]: The boundary between families who are in need of public assistance and those who are not is tenuous. In many of these families, at least one adult is working but is earning wages that are too low to lift the family above the federal poverty level or to ensure economic self-sufficiency.

Improving the Welfare Reform Success Story March 19, 2009

2001 [National Center for Policy Analysis]: Who said government programs don't work? Since enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), in conjunction with Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), unprecedented numbers of people have made the transition from welfare to work.

Gaining Ground: Women, Welfare Reform and Work March 19, 2009

2002 [National Center for Policy Analysis]: Welfare caseloads more than doubled from the 1960s to the mid-1990s, spurring enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in August 1996. Between passage of the act and June 2001, the number of families on welfare declined by 53 percent. Contrary to the expectations of many welfare reform critics, most of the women heading these families went to work. In fact, the proportion of single mothers who work has increased dramatically since welfare reform, nearly matching the proportion leaving welfare.

Making TANF Work for the Corps: When and How TANF Funds Can Support Youth Corps Initiatives March 19, 2009

2000 [Center for Law and Social Policy]: The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant, as well as the Maintenance of Effort (MOE) funds that states are required to spend in order to draw down their full TANF allocations, are a potential source of funding for youth corps that wish to expand their services. Making TANF Work for the Corps is a technical assistance resource paper for the National Association of Service and Conservation Corps. It explains why youth corps are an allowable use of TANF funds, discusses who is eligible for TANF-funded services and how corps participation fits in with TANF work and other requirements, provides pointers for Corps hoping to access TANF funds, and gives examples of Corps that are already using these funds.

Feminist Perspectives on TANF Reauthorization: An Introduction to Key Issues for the Future of Welfare Reform March 19, 2009

2002 [Institute for Women's Policy Research]: Concern about the “moral fitness” of poor single mothers, for example, has been an issue since the days of the state-level Mothers' Pensions programs that preceded the establishment of AFDC, and conceptions of "deservingness" have always been steeped in traditional gender ideology and highly racialized. And, despite the maternalist rhetoric surrounding the establishment of the AFDC program, restrictive eligibility requirements and low benefits have meant that historically many welfare recipients have participated in wage labor.

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2006 [CATO Institute]: The one major difference from a century ago that affects this issue is that the United States is now a substantial welfare state. Illegal immigrants appear to be net taxpayers to the federal government but net tax burdens to state and local governments, especially if they have children in school.

SOME TENDENCIES OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE PROBLEM OF INTERPRETATION March 19, 2009

2002 [CATO Institute]: That an economist would search for constants in the economic universe is no less plausible than a physicist searching for constants in the physical universe. It is true that the usefulness and the duration of the constants, economic versus physical, may vary. For example, the manner in which the constant can be defined by the scientist or constituted by the environment is going to have implications for the use value and the duration of the observed constant. The bias points favorably toward the physical. But the economic universe will produce a curiously stubborn constant every now and again. Labor’s share of output is probably the leading example.

The Failure of Socialism and Lessons for America, Part 1 March 19, 2009

The world is watching the spectacle of Russia and the other captive nations of the former Soviet Union trying to free themselves from their seventy-five-year experiment in socialism. The bankruptcy of the system is accepted by practically everyone. The economies of the former Soviet republics are in shambles. Civil wars and ethnic violence have broken out in an increasing number of territories of the former U.S.S.R. And the quality of medical care, educational facilities and residential housing has been and is continuing to deteriorate.

Coercive Visibility: Gender Deviance, TANF Reauthorization, and State Control of Low-Income Women and Men March 19, 2009

2003 [American Political Science Association]: Feminist scholars have noted that recent policy developments in the arena of intimate association are examples of contradictory trends in state regulation of families and intimate life (Fraser 1997, Mink 1998, Smith 2001). On the one hand, in redistributive policy areas such as public benefits for low-income families, the state has been reducing its support for families. On the other hand, the state has increased its intervention in the realms related to sexuality and the regulation of morality through laws such as the Defense of Marriage Acts (at federal and state levels) and the marriage incentives, family caps, and abstinence-only sex education funding in welfare law.

Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties March 19, 2009

2006 [Google Books]: This major Encyclopedia in American history and law is the first devoted to issues of civil liberties and the meaning of freedom in American life. It covers the traditional civil liberties: freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition. In addition, it also covers concerns such as privacy, the rights of the accused, and national security.

How the Welfare State Corrupted Sweden March 19, 2009

2006 [Von Mises Institute]: Old people in Sweden say that to be Swedish means to supply for your own, to take care of your self, and never be a burden on anyone else's shoulders. Independence and hard work was the common perception of a decent life, and the common perception of morality. That was less than one hundred years ago.

Improving the Welfare Reform Success Story March 19, 2009

2002 [National Center for Policy Analysis]: Who said government programs don't work? Since enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), in conjunction with Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), unprecedented numbers of people have made the transition from welfare to work.

The Association Between Men's Economic Staus and Their Community and Family Origins March 19, 2009

1991 [Journal of Human Resources]: Study that examines the correlation between an adult man's economic status based on their community and family environment.

Childhood Conditions and Adult Welfare Use: Examining Neighborhood and Family Factors March 19, 2009

1999 [Journal of Marriage and Family]: Journal article that studies the correlation between childhood environment and adult use of welfare.