Impact of Welfare Reform on Children and Their Families: Hearings Before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, on February 28, and March 1, 1995, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995 - 239 páginas Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche. |
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AFDC recipients assistance benefits centers chil child care funds child care programs child care providers child care subsidies child care system child support clients committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY cost daycare Development Block Grant dollars earnings eligibility employment Fairfax County family day Family Support Act fathers Food Stamps GAIN PROGRAM goals going grams Head Start Hofferth income increase involved issue JOB PLACEMENTS job training JOBS program Kansas LIBRARY OF CONGRESS look low-income Madam Chairman married couples MCLANAHAN MDRC Medicaid minimum wage month mothers parents participation percent PHILLIPS policies poor poverty prepared statement preschool problems quality child regulations requirements RIVERSIDE COUNTY SCHALANSKY self-sufficient Senator ASHCROFT Senator DODD Senator MIKULSKI staff subsidized child talk Texas Thank things think tanks waiver welfare recipients welfare system welfare-to-work WELLSTONE women workfare
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Página 227 - While welfare status guarantees a child care subsidy to individuals in employment-related activities, a welfare recipient's economic status may differ little from a low-income, working, nonwelfare recipient's. In fact, some welfare recipients work but do not earn enough to make them ineligible for welfare, and welfare recipients may cycle on and off assistance a number of times before leaving welfare permanently. Moreover, the categorical nature of the child care programs does not recognize that...
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Página 230 - Currently, some states are using federal Block Grant funds to meet AFDC Child Care entitlements. Although the Block Grant legislation does not prohibit assisting families on welfare, the primary goal of the Block Grant is to help working poor families afford child care. However, as states run out of money to claim federal funds, they turn to the Block Grant to meet their obligations to entitled individuals.
Página 227 - Although our work has demonstrated that affordable child care is a decisive factor in encouraging low-income mothers to seek and keep jobs, the existing child care subsidy system has problems.
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