Assessing the Impact of Welfare Reform on Single Mothers

Fang, H; Keane, M

Assessing the Impact of Welfare Reform on Single Mothers

Fang, H Keane, M

Permalink

Publisher:: Brookings Institution Press
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2004, 1 pp. 1 - 116
Issue Date:: 2004-01

Open Access

Copyright Clearance Process

Recently Added
In Progress
Open Access

This item is open access.

Adobe PDF

Download full textAdobe PDF (8.46 MB)

View statistics

Full metadata record

Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Fang, H	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Keane, M	en_US
dc.date.issued	2004-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2004, 1 pp. 1 - 116	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0007-2303	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/6375
dc.description.abstract	THE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), signed into law in 1996, transformed the U.S. welfare system. PRWORA replaced the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Since its inception in 1935 as part of the Social Security Act, AFDC had been the main welfare program providing assistance to low-income single mothers. But a number of factors, particularly the rapid growth in the never-married single-mother population and a resumption of growth in caseloads in the early 1990s (following the surge of the late 1960s and early 1970s; figure 1), rendered the program unpopular.1 Under the new TANF program, welfare participation among single mothers has dropped dramatically, from 25 percent in 1996 to 9 percent today.	en_US
dc.publisher	Brookings Institution Press	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Brookings Papers on Economic Activity	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Economics	en_US
dc.title	Assessing the Impact of Welfare Reform on Single Mothers	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	1	en_US
utslib.for	140211 Labour Economics	en_US
dc.location.activity	Salt Lake City, UT
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.consider-herdc	false	en_US
pubs.volume	1	en_US

Abstract:

THE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), signed into law in 1996, transformed the U.S. welfare system. PRWORA replaced the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Since its inception in 1935 as part of the Social Security Act, AFDC had been the main welfare program providing assistance to low-income single mothers. But a number of factors, particularly the rapid growth in the never-married single-mother population and a resumption of growth in caseloads in the early 1990s (following the surge of the late 1960s and early 1970s; figure 1), rendered the program unpopular.1 Under the new TANF program, welfare participation among single mothers has dropped dramatically, from 25 percent in 1996 to 9 percent today.

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:

http://hdl.handle.net/10453/6375