The national Medicaid Buy-In program promotes employment and economic self-sufficiency for individuals with disabilities by allowing states to amend their Medicaid programs. As of December 2002, 25 states had implemented this program. Three themes emerge in this early picture of 21 states: (1)...

Notes that the VIEW program increased participants' earnings and employment and encouraged work. The findings, which are similar to those from other studies of programs that combine time limits with generous earnings disregards, also suggest that the program did not decrease TANF participation...

Examines welfare reform in Virginia, which implemented reforms early and focused on building attachment to jobs and the economy, noting that many welfare workers believed work incentives were critical to program success and that, despite new strategies to help workers do their jobs differently,...

Welfare reform in Iowa succeeded in getting welfare recipients into training and then into jobs. However, the reforms did not always succeed in raising family income and may have reduced it for some families. Furthermore, researchers noted negative impacts on some measures of family and child...

Details the results of an in-depth survey of low-income parents, finding that Wisconsin's reform from AFDC to W-2 was confusing to many and that many face multiple challenges in achieving self-sufficiency. Although only some of these challenges can be addressed by government programs such as...

Based on a one-year follow-up survey with a representative sample of over 400 single-mother TANF clients, the report examines how various obstacles to employment constrained clients’ employability and influenced their experiences with welfare-to-work activities and supportive services. Also...

Notes that the VIEW program increased participants' earnings and employment and encouraged work. The findings, which are similar to those from other studies of programs that combine time limits with generous earnings disregards, also suggest that the program did not decrease TANF participation...