Contributor
Weber, Bruce A. (Bruce Alan), 1943-
Imprint:Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2002.
Descriptionx, 499 p. : illus., maps ; 23 cm.
Note:This book presents revised versions of about half of the papers presented at a conference on the title topic held in Washington, D.C., May 2000.
Note:Approaching the limit: early national lessons from welfare reform / Sheldon Danziger. - Rural labor markets in an era of welfare reform / Robert M. Gibbs. - Rural America in transition: poverty and welfare at the turn of the twenty-first century / Daniel T. Lichter and Leif Jensen. - Reducing food stamp and welfare caseloads in the South: are rural areas less likely to succeed than urban centers? / Mark henry, Lynn Reinschmiedt, Willis Lewis, Jr., and Darren Hudson. - Seasonal employment dynamics and welfare use in agricultural and rural California counties / Henry E. Brady, Mary Sprague, Fredric C. Gey, and Michael Wiseman. - Location and the low-income experience: analyses of program dynamics in the Iowa family investment program / Helen H. Jensen, Shao-Hsun Keng, and Steven Garasky. - Small towns and welfare reform: Iowa case studies of families and communities / Cynthia Needles Fletcher, Jan L. Flora, Barbara J. Gaddis, Mary Winter, and Jacquelyn S. Litt. - Where all the counties are above average: human service agency directos' perspectives on welfare reform / Ann Tickamyer, Julie White, Barry Tadlock, and Debra Henderson. - The impact of welfare policy on the employment of single mothers living in rural and urban areas / Signe-Mary McKernan, Robert Lerman, Nancy Pindus, and Jesse Valente. - Welfare reform in rural Minnesota: experimental findings from the Minnesota family investment program / Lisa A. Gennetian, Cindy Redcross, and Cynthia Miller. - Will attainable jobs be available for TANF recipients in local labor markets? Evidence from Mississippi on prospects for "job-skill matching" of TANF adults / Frank M. Howell. - Whose job is it? Employers' views on welfare reform / Ellen Shelton, Greg Owen, Amy Bush Stevens, Justine Nelson-Christinedaughter, Corinna Roy, and June Heineman. - The short-term impacts of welfare reform in persistently poor rural areas / Mark Harvey, Gene F. Summers, Kathleen Pickering, and Patricia Richards. - Food stamps in rural America: special issues and common themes / Sheena McConnell and James Ohls. - The decline in food stamp use by rural low-income households: less need or less access? / Mark Nord. - Lessons learned: welfare reform and food assistance in rural America / Greg Duncan, Leslie A. Whitener, and Bruce A. Weber.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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