logit estimators and find that welfare transitions have generally not changed significantly after the reform: the … somewhat. After the reform, welfare persistence and welfare-to-employment transitions of immigrants became more responsive to …

For decades the rhetoric of federalism has been an important part of the debate over welfare reform. The alignments … alignments and the stereotyped quality of most federalism rhetoric, skeptics might argue that this is an arena in which “the …, the abstractions comprising the rhetoric of federalism serve to mask conflicts and lead us to apply our normative concerns …