The Personal Responsibility And Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act Of 1996 Presented Challenges To All States To Alter Their Welfare Programs And Management Systems. This Book Analyzes The Responses Of Five States To Those Challenges. The Book Features Similarities As Well As Differences In Their Implementation Of Welfare Reform, Within The Context Of Their Distinctive Historical, Political, Cultural, Economic And Demographic Experiences. Public Support For Moving Welfare Recipients To Work Forms The Common Overlay; Reorganized State-level Administrative Structures, And Diverse Local Management And Service Arrangements Differentiate Them. The Book Chapters Provide An In-depth Account Of Welfare Reform, Its Complex Workings, And The Important Role Played By Political Leaders At State And Local Levels In Florida, Mississippi, New York, Washington And Wisconsin.--book Jacket. Public Opinion, Political Leadership, And Welfare Reform / Sarah F. Liebschutz -- Florida Welfare Reform: Cash Assistance As The Least Desirable Resource For Poor Families / Robert E. Crew, Jr. And Belinda Creel Davis -- To Privatization And Back: Welfare Reform Implementation In Mississippi / David A. Breaux [and Others] -- Welfare Reform In New York: A Mixed Laboratory For Change / Sarah F. Liebschutz -- Washington's Workfirst Program: Key Policy Challenges -- Janet Looney And Betty Jane Narver -- Wisconsin Works / Thomas Kaplan. Sarah F. Liebschutz, Editor. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Managing Welfare Reform in Five States: The Challenge of Change

Sarah F. Liebschutz, Ramesh Thakur

Sarah F. Liebschutz, editor

Sarah F., Ed Liebschutz

Liebschutz, Sarah F.

Rockefeller Institute Press; Rockefeller Institute of Government, The, Nelson A.

Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, The

Albany, N.Y.: Rockefeller Institute Press

Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse

Albany, NY, New York State, October 2000

United States, United States of America

Includes bibliographical references and index

This book analyzes the responses of five states (Florida, Mississippi, New York, Washington, and Wisconsin) to challenges posed by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to alter state welfare programs and management systems. Using case studies, the book highlights similarities and differences in the states' implementation of welfare reform, within the context of their distinctive historical, political, cultural, economic, and demographic experiences. The following articles are included: "Public Opinion, Political Leadership, and Welfare Reform" (Sarah F. Liebschutz); "Florida Welfare Reform: Cash Assistance as the Least Desirable Resource for Poor Families" (Robert E. Crew, Jr., and Belinda Creel Davis); "To Privatization and Back: Welfare Reform Implementation in Mississippi" (David A. Breaux, Christopher M. Duncan, C. Denise Keller, John C. Morris); "Welfare Reform in New York: A Mixed Laboratory for Change" (Sarah F. Liebschutz); "Washington's WorkFirst Program: Key Policy Challenges" (Janet Looney and Betty Jane Narver); and "Wisconsin Works" (Thomas Kaplan). (KC)

v, 134 p. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index

2023-06-28