Welfare, but Only for Us?

Welfare Reform: The US Experience

Welfare Reform: The US Experience The reform of the cash-based welfare program for single mothers in the US which occurred in the 1990s was the most important since its inception in 1935. The reforms imposed credible and enforceable work requirements into the program for the first time, as well as establishing time limits on lifetime receipt. Research on the effects of the reform have shown it ...

Welfare for all--or only for the needy?

Over a decade ago, an editorial in The Lancet voiced serious concern over the degree to which epidemiology had abandoned its traditional emphasis on issues of obvious importance to public health. Journal papers were increasingly occupied with refi ning statistical methods to address individual risk factors on a biological and molecular level. Appealing as the potential of molecular epidemiology...

Child-Only Welfare Cases in Madison County

Ever since the welfare reform of the late 1990's, greater attention has been paid to the child-only welfare households. These are the households in which only the children are eligible to receive TANF funding, due the SSI or immigrant status of their parents or because they are living with non-parent relative caregivers. Studies have begun to look at the specific problems facing these household...

US City Size Distribution: Robustly Pareto, but Only in the Tail

We establish empirically using three different definitions of US cities that the upper tail obeys a Pareto law and not a lognormal distribution. We emphasize estimation of a switching point between the body of the city size distribution (which includes most cities) and its upper tail (which includes most of the population). For the 2000 Census Places data, in particular, our preferred model sug...

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