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Welfare reform in America : perspectives and prospects /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Middlebury College Conference on Economic Issues
Other Authors: Sommers, Paul M.
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Kluwer-Nijhoff ; [1982]
Series:Middlebury College conference series on economic issues.
Subjects:
Public welfare > United States > Congresses.
Table of Contents:
  • Goals and purposes of social welfare expenditures / Robert J. Lampman
  • Welfare reform / William P. Albrecht
  • The war on income poverty / Sheldon Danziger and Robert Plotnik
  • The effectiveness of current transfer programs in reducing poverty / G. William Hoagland
  • How effective is our multiple benefit anti-poverty program? / Morton Paglin
  • The role of food stamps in welfare reforms / J. Fred Giertz and Dennis H. Sullivan
  • What is an appropriate benefit level for the unemployed? / Daniel S. Hamermesh
  • The AFDC-unemployed fathers program / James R. Hosek
  • The evolution of the work issue in welfare reform / Larry L. Orr and Felicity Skidmore
  • Direct job creation / Robert H. Haveman
  • The effect of a negative income tax on work effort / Robert A. Moffitt
  • A study of the interaction between cash transfer programs and employment programs / David M. Betson and David H. Greenberg.