To test whether the block grant approach currently under consideration in Congress actually achieves the goal of providing states with the flexibility necessary to effect meaningful policy changes, this Essay contrasts the way two different reform proposals would be treated in the current legal and regulatory environment to the way they would likely fare under the proposed legislation. One proposal used in this analysis is a comprehensive welfare reform program, self-described as progressive, that was developed by a community-based, grass roots coalition in New Jersey. The New Jersey reform proposal aims to improve outcomes for recipients, rather than simply to cut costs. The other proposal is a hypothetical cost-saving program that simpl...
This Essay discusses the problems of implementation and administration of proposed welfare reforms. ...
Welfare reform has received a great deal of public attention in recent months. Historically, many st...
For the last thirty years, there has been widespread agreement that the nation\u27s welfare system s...
To test whether the block grant approach currently under consideration in Congress actually achieves...
As this issue goes to press, the U.S. Congress debates passage of sweeping legislative reforms to we...
In 1996 the United States passed a major reform of welfare, the federal and state program that had p...
This Essay explains the evolution of various approaches to welfare, assesses the efforts under the F...
Medicaid is the largest grant-in-aid program in the United States. Reform in this area, therefore, p...
The thesis of this Article is that reform of the Supplemental Security Income disability program is ...
Recent state initiatives to change the AFDC program are usually described as a unified welfare refor...
This paper examines the law as a mechanism for resisting neoliberal policy change through a consider...
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "With the enact...
Beginning in 1962, Section 1115 of the Social Security Act allowed the U.S. Secretary of Health and ...
landmark law ended the sixty-year guarantee of a safety net for poor children and families by transf...
This Essay assesses proposals to reform welfare from the perspective of effects on housing assistanc...
This Essay discusses the problems of implementation and administration of proposed welfare reforms. ...
Welfare reform has received a great deal of public attention in recent months. Historically, many st...
For the last thirty years, there has been widespread agreement that the nation\u27s welfare system s...
To test whether the block grant approach currently under consideration in Congress actually achieves...
As this issue goes to press, the U.S. Congress debates passage of sweeping legislative reforms to we...
In 1996 the United States passed a major reform of welfare, the federal and state program that had p...
This Essay explains the evolution of various approaches to welfare, assesses the efforts under the F...
Medicaid is the largest grant-in-aid program in the United States. Reform in this area, therefore, p...
The thesis of this Article is that reform of the Supplemental Security Income disability program is ...
Recent state initiatives to change the AFDC program are usually described as a unified welfare refor...
This paper examines the law as a mechanism for resisting neoliberal policy change through a consider...
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "With the enact...
Beginning in 1962, Section 1115 of the Social Security Act allowed the U.S. Secretary of Health and ...
landmark law ended the sixty-year guarantee of a safety net for poor children and families by transf...
This Essay assesses proposals to reform welfare from the perspective of effects on housing assistanc...
This Essay discusses the problems of implementation and administration of proposed welfare reforms. ...
Welfare reform has received a great deal of public attention in recent months. Historically, many st...
For the last thirty years, there has been widespread agreement that the nation\u27s welfare system s...