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The 1996 welfare reform law replaced a U.S. system of cash assistance to poor single parents with new measures to encourage work. The reforms include job training, tax credits to supplement low wages, and time limits on benefits. Welfare rolls have dropped dramatically. What policies will continue to promote the transition from welfare to work?
April 17, 2012, Ron Haskins
February 28, 2012, Ron Haskins and Peter H. Schuck
December 30, 2011, Ron Haskins
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We don’t have the welfare programs that we have had in the past. The need for individual giving is greater than it has been in modern memory. August 19, 2012, Bruce Katz, The Chronicle of Philanthropy
We don’t have the welfare programs that we have had in the past. The need for individual giving is greater than it has been in modern memory.
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August 22, 2011, Ron Haskins | comments
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June 20, 2011, Ron Haskins
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December 8, 2010, Martha Ross
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October 7, 2010, Elizabeth Kneebone
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October 7, 2010, Scott W. Allard and Benjamin Roth
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September 2010, David H. Romer and Justin Wolfers
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August 20, 2010, Ron Haskins
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June 10, 2010
Article | Democracy
Spring 2010, Ron Haskins
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Ron Haskins
Co-Director, Center on Children and Families, Budgeting for National Priorities
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
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R. Kent Weaver
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