This chapter provides an overview of recent changes in the income support system for lowincome families in the State of California, and describes some of the associated changes in the labor market outcomes of women. Although much attention has focused on federally-initiated welfare reform associated with the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), signific...

Focusing on welfare policy differences at the county level in California, this paper explores the reasons for the differing declines in welfare recipiency rates across the state’s counties. Using a regression framework, it attempts to isolate the effects of differences in counties’ economic characteristics, demographic characteristics, and policy choices on differences in counties’ recipiency r...

Inequality and deep poverty have risen sharply in the US since 1990s. Simultaneously, cash-based welfare policies frayed, support for public assistance has fallen on political right, prejudice against recipients of remained high. Yet, recent years Universal Basic Income (UBI) gained traction, a policy proposing to give all citizens cash sufficient meet basic needs with no strings attached. We h...

Abstract Bureaucratic selectivity mechanisms are the true colours of welfare states, stigmatising benefit recipients while hampering their trust in institutions and society at large. Universal policies such as Basic Income (UBI) could protect recipients’ by circumventing paraphernalia. By analysing regressions on Finnish UBI experiment’s survey data, we assess links from policy to benefit-provi...

This study aimed to evaluate the extent of benefits gained by indigenous people resettlement area in Barangay Camias, Municipality Porac, Pampanga, community-based development programs and projects University Makati as entrepreneurial livelihood programs, infrastructure developments, health services, social welfare projects. Descriptive-survey design was used describe present situation barangay...

This chapter describes the design and evaluation of a recently completed Work First pilot, funded by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor, which uses statistical methods to assess each customer’s employability and then uses the assessment to refer them to services. The pilot addresses the need for early identification of employment barriers faced by welfare...