Can Welfare Reform Eliminate Poverty?

Welfare and Poverty: The Elements of Reform

How can land tenure reform contribute to poverty reduction

„The vision of a prosperous agriculturally based market economy in which increasingly diversified and commercially oriented small farmers with secure and exchangeable land rights, able not only to feed but also to remunerate themselves and their families while supplying [...] growing cities, generating local employment and national revenue, is powerful, attractive, motivating and valid. The que...

Can the Left Learn the Lessons of Welfare Reform?

Blame Welfare, Ignore Poverty and Inequality by Joel F. Handler; Yeheskel Hasenfeld; The Promise of Welfare Reform: Political Rhetoric and the Reality of Poverty in the TwentyFirst Century by Keith M. Kilty; Elizabeth A. Segal; When Welfare Disappears: The Case for Economic Human Rights by Kenneth J. Neubeck; Welfare Discipline: Discourse, Governance, and Globalization by Sanford F. Schram Revi...

WELFARE REFORM Welfare Reform and the Impact on Children

The passage of the 1996 PRWORA (Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act) transformed the U.S. welfare system from a federal entitlement program that emphasized cash assistance to poor families, primarily, to a state block grant that stressed time limits and work. More specifically, the law mandated lifetime time limits of five years for receipt of cash assistance (TANF...

Does welfare reduce poverty?

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 made fundamental changes in the federal system of public assistance in the United States, and specifically limited the eligibility of immigrant households to receive many types of aid. Many states chose to protect their immigrant populations from the presumed adverse effects of welfare reform by offering state-funded as...