Evaluating welfare reform in an era of transition: Are we looking in the wrong direction?
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In February 1996, the Institute for Research on Poverty and the National Center for Children in Poverty organized a national conference on the future of research and evaluation in light of the potential transfer of responsibility for welfare policies and programs to the states. The mood among participants was palpably pessimistic. If the locus of responsibility was shifted from the federal government, would interest in and support for evaluation wane?
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