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Welfare Reform
Welfare Reform is the common title for the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconcilliation Act, Public Law 104-193 signed 8/22/96. For a clear overview of the law use Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, July 20,1996. A section by section
analysis of the Conference Report is at the American Public Human Services Association site. A four year history is also available.
The White House organizes welfare reform by topic and by government agencies involved in programs.
Employment and Training Administration, DOL is an excellent starting place for Welfare to Work information. Contains key information about the program, information for individuals and for employers, regulations and links to sites and studies on the subject.
SpeakOut.com brings numerous think tank, advocacy group, and university center publications together.
Welfare Information Network is a foundation funded clearinghouse to help states implement welfare reform. Excellent sources by management and program areas such as Teen Parents, Time Limits, Education and Training and much more
Welfare Watch, University of Southern California, is a great site providing just about everything including some full text articles.
Administration for Children and Families has a wonderfully
complete website on AFDC, particularly as it relates to children, but with other aspects as well. Guidance
and status documents, allocation tables are here as well as excellent information on child support and care, immigration, medicaid, family violence, welfare to work. The Welfare Reform Implementation Informational Package containing materials from HHS, Labor,USDA and Justice is available.
Employment and Training Administration
Recruiting, hiring and training welfare recipients
Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Links to states welfare reform information
Welfare Reform stateline.org
Excellent for state comparisons and individual state provisions. Contains caseloads by states.
Urban Institute
Dozens of research articles on social welfare reform.
Dynamics of Economic Well-Being: Who Stays Poor? Who Doesn't?Bureau of the Census
Federal Poverty Guidelines
Green Book:Report on Welfare and Other Entitlement Programs is published by the House Ways and Means Committee and contains statistical data
Legislative Resources provides general information regarding legislation. Sources listed are both in the Government Publicatioins Department and on the Web. The Department has Congressional hearings and reports in print available for circulation. To locate these documents, use the Congressional Information Services Index.
Tennessee's Families First
The law is found in the Tennessee Code, Title 71-3-152 through 71-3-165.
The Tennessee Legislature passed the bill April 15, 1996. It was necessary to apply to the Federal government for waivers. The Administration waived federal regulations July 25. The program went into effect September, 1996. An article in the Commercial Appeal, July 25, explains the program well.
Information including Families First major point and concepts and changes from AFDC can be found at the Tennessee Department of Human Services site. Welfare reform activities for all states is found at News in the States. Information on states with waivers is available at the Department of Health and Human Services.
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