on Rebecca Blank , “ What Did the 1990 s Welfare Reform Accomplish ? ”
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Becky Blank’s paper is a sweeping, comprehensive, and balanced review and assessment of what social scientists and policy analysts have learned about the effects of the landmark U. S. national welfare reform legislation of 1996. The policy shift embodied in this legislation (and the responses of each of 50 states to it) is the largest policy change affecting the potential welfare population since the start of national assistance to single parent families in the 1930s. As Blank puts it, the reform “fundamentally altered the ways in which we provide assistance to low-income families in the United States.”
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