Bitler, Marianne; Hoynes, Hilary W. - 2010
"The passage of the 1996 welfare reform bill led to sweeping changes to the central U.S. cash safety net program for … de facto ending the entitlement nature of cash welfare for poor families with children in the United States. Despite dire … well-being has been altered by the implementation of welfare reform. We find that use of food stamps and non-cash safety …
