The new world of welfare

Machine generated contents note: 1 Welfare Reform: An Agenda for Reauthorization -- Ron Haskins and Rebecca M. Blank -- Part II: The Biggest Issues -- 2 Implementation of the Personal Responsibility -- Act of 1996 -- Thomas L. Gais, Richard P? Nathan, Irene Lurie, -- and Thomas Kaplan -- Comment: Susan Golonka -- Work, Wages, and Welfare -- Rebecca M. Blank and Lucie Schmidt -- Comment: Robert Topel -- Effects of Welfare Reform on Family Income -- and Poverty -- Ron Haskins -- Comment: Wendell Primus -- 5 Family Formation / 13 -- Charles Murray -- Comment: Rebecca A. Maynard -- 6 The Politics of Welfare Reform 1 -- Hugh Heclo -- 7 The Politics of Conservative Welfare Reform 2 -- Lawrence M. Mead -- Part III: Specific Issues and Policies -- 8 Improving Employment Outcomes under TANF -- Julie Strawn, Mark Greenberg, and Steve Savner -- Comment: Eloise Anderson -- 9 State Sanctions and Time Limits -- LaDonna Pavetti and Dan Bloom -- Comment: Robert Rector -- 10 Financial Work Incentives for Low-Wage Workers -- Charles Michalopoulos and Gordon Berlin -- Comment: Glenn C. Loury -- 11 Work Experience under Welfare Reform -- Jason A. Turner and Thomas Main -- Comment: Clifford M. Johnson -- 12 Will TANF Work for the Most Disadvantaged Families? -- Sheila R Zedlewski and Pamela Loprest -- Comment: Sheldon Danziger -- 13 Supporting Work through Medicaid and Food Stamps -- Robert Greenstein andJocelyn Guyer -- Comment: Don Winstead -- Comment: Gary Stangler -- Welfare Reform and Immigration -- George Borjas -- Comment: Michael Fix -- 15 Welfare Reform and Children's Well-Being -- GregJ. Duncan and P Lindsay Chase-Lansdale -- Comment: C. Eugene Steuerle -- Part IV Associated Program Reforms -- 16 Fathers, Marriage, and Welfare Reform -- Wade E Horn and Isabel V Sawhill -- Comment: Ronald B. Mincy -- 17 Child Support in the New World of Welfare -- Irwin Garfinkel -- Comment: Robert I. Lerman -- 18 Child Care after Welfare Reform -- Douglas J. Besharov with Nazanin Samari -- Comment: Kristin Anderson Moore, Martha Zaslow, -- Sharon McGroder, and Kathryn Tout -- 19 Effects of the 1996 Welfare Reform Changes -- on the SSI Program -- Lynn A. Karoly, Jacob Alex Klerman, andJeannette A. Rogowski -- Comment: Matt Weidinger -- Contributors -- Index