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Title	Toward Welfare That Works

Creator	Opulente, Mary Mattaini, Mark

Description	Welfare reform is high on the national agenda. This paper clarifies facts about the welfare system, provides behavioral analyses of welfare and working, and reviews current policy initiatives with potential for producing lasting solutions. The most frequent approach to the issue has been to cut benefits, and exhort those on welfare to obtain employment which may not be available, or for which they may not be prepared. However, the demand to look more closely before cutting already desperately limited resources for families and children is not simply the cry of the old-time liberal; it is also the conclusion of the careful empiricist. Analysis of the data suggest (1) that the most effective approaches will be those that are base primarily on offering adequate supports and incentives, and (2) indiscriminate cuts and sanction-based programs are often based in myth, and are likely to be ineffective and produce undesirable side effects.

Publisher	University of Illinois at Chicago Library

Date	1993-12-16

Type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article

Format	application/pdf

Identifier	https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/197 10.5210/bsi.v3i1.197

Source	Behavior and Social Issues; Volume 3, No. 1-2 (1993) 1064-9506

Language	eng

Relation	https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/197/2912

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