Rural dimensions of welfare reform (W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2002)
"This book presents revised versions of about half of the papers presented at a conference on the title topic held in Washington, D.C., May 2000.". - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Introduction : as the dust settles : welfare reform and rural America - Leslie A. Whitener, Bruce A. Weber, Greg Duncan -- - Approaching the limit : early national lessons from welfare reform - Sheldon Danziger -- - Rural labor markets in an era of welfare reform - Robert M. Gibbs -- - Rural America in transition : poverty and welfare at the turn of the twenty-first century - Daniel T. Lichter, Leif Jensen -- - Reducing food stamp and welfare caseloads in the South : are rural areas less likely to succeed than urban centers? - Mark Henry, Lynn Reinschmiedt, Willis Lewis, Darren Hudson -- - Seasonal employment dynamics and welfare use in agricultural and rural California counties - Henry E. Brady, Mary Sprague, Fredric C. Gey, Michael Wiseman -- - Location and the low-income experience : analyses of program dynamics in the Iowa family investment program - Helen H. Jensen, Shao-Hsun Keng, Steven Garasky --
- Small towns and welfare reform : Iowa case studies of families and communities - Cynthia Needles Fletcher, Jan L. Flora, Barbara J. Gaddis, Mary Winter, Jacquelyn S. Litt -- - Where all the counties are above average : human service agency directors' perspectives on welfare reform - Ann Tickamyer, Julie White, Barry Tadlock, Debra Henderson -- - The impact of welfare policy on the employment of single mothers living in rural and urban areas - Signe-Mary McKernan, Robert Lerman, Nancy Pindus, Jesse Valente -- - Welfare reform in rural Minnesota : experimental findings from the Minnesota family investment program - Lisa A. Gennetian, Cindy Redcross, and Cynthia Miller -- - Will attainable jobs be available for TANF recipients in local labor markets? Evidence from Mississippi on prospects for "job-skill matching" of TANF adults - Frank M. Howell -- - Whose job is it? Employers' views on welfare reform
- Ellen Shelton, Greg Owen, Amy Bush Stevens, Justine Nelson-Christinedaughter, Corinna Roy, June Heineman -- - The short-term impacts of welfare reform in persistently poor rural areas - Mark Harvey, Gene F. Summers, Kathleen Pickering, Patricia Richards -- - Food stamps in rural America : special issues and common themes - Sheena McConnell, James Ohls -- - The decline in food stamp use by rural low-income households : less need or less access? - Mark Nord -- - Lessons learned : welfare reform and food assistance in rural America - Greg Duncan, Leslie A. Whitener, Bruce A. Weber