The AFDC-unemployed Fathers Program and Welfare Reform
Author: James R. Hosek
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James R. Hosek
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Public Assistance
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 130
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Domestic Council (U.S.)
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 34
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David M. O'Neill
Publisher: W. E. Upjohn Institute
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 154
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on data from the Current Population Survey and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, provides information relevant for implementing and assessing the impact of new social security legislation to replace Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). Examines patterns of welfare and work participation, analyses the characteristics and work skills of recipients, and investigates the effectiveness of employment and training programmes.
Author: Earl S. Johnson
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 1999-04-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1610443209
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the most challenging goals for welfare reformers has been improving the collection of child support payments from noncustodial parents, usually fathers. Often vilified as deadbeats who have dropped out of their children's lives, these fathers have been the target of largely punitive enforcement policies that give little consideration to the complex circumstances of these men's lives. Fathers' Fair Share presents an alternative to these measures with an in-depth study of the Parents Fair Share Program. A multi-state intervention run by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, the program was designed to better the life skills of nonpaying fathers with children on public assistance, in the belief that this would encourage them to improve their level of child support. The men chosen for the program frequently lived on the margins of society. Chronically unemployed or underemployed, undereducated, and often earning their money on the streets, they bore the scars of drug or alcohol abuse, troubled family lives, and arrest records. Among those of African American and Hispanic descent, many felt a deep-rooted distrust of the mainstream economy. The Parents Fair Share Program offered these men the chance not only to learn the social skills needed for stable employment but to participate in discussions about personal difficulties, racism, and problems in their relationships with their children and families. Fathers' Fair Share details the program's mix of employment training services, peer support groups, and formal mediation of disputes between custodial and noncustodial parents. Equally important, the authors explore the effect of the participating fathers' expectations and doubts about the program, which were colored by their often negative views about the child support and family law system. The voices heard in Fathers' Fair Share provides a rare look into the lives of low-income fathers and how they think about their struggles and prospects, their experiences in the workplace, and their responsibilities toward their families. Parents Fair Share demonstrated that, in spite of their limited resources, these men are more likely to make stronger efforts to improve support payments and to become greater participants in their children's lives if they encounter a less adversarial and arbitrary enforcement system. Fathers' Fair Share offers a valuable resource to the design of social welfare programs seeking to reach out to this little-understood population, and addresses issues of tremendous importance for those concerned about welfare reform, child support enforcement, family law, and employment policy.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 708
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Department of Labor. Manpower Administration
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Social research survey of the labour force employability of recipients of aid to families with dependent children (afdc) in the USA, within the framework of the work incentive program for the relief of unemployment - covers taxation benefits, family benefits and other social assistance, vocational training facilities, etc., and includes relevant aspects of social policy concerning unemployed heads of family (incl. Women). References and statistical tables.