Welfare reform: from fable to tabloid

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Public welfare reform always becomes a part of the national agenda everytime the federal government experiences a budget crisis. However, the latest round of reform efforts face the same problems that hindered previous attempts to address the issue. One such problem is that many public assistance and welfare programs resemble stories in a tabloid in that they tend to be based on exaggerated claims and very few facts. A case in point is the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. Reformers are proposing a two-year limit on the period during which client families can receive aid. This proposal may seem like a good idea, but it is clearly not based on a realistic assessment of the economic conditions of AFDC customers. If reform efforts are to succeed, they must provide rewards for supportive parents and disincentive for irresponsible child-bearing, and address the problem of families that keep going back on welfare.

Administration of Human Resource Programs (except Education, Public Health, and Veterans' Affairs Programs), Social Service Support Programs, Management, Welfare, Public assistance

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Welfare reform: what it could mean to LHAs

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The welfare reform initiatives being introduced by states and the federal government will significantly affect housing authorities. These programs require welfare recipients to find work. Their welfare benefits will be eliminated at a scheduled time. The ability of recipients to find work will be determined by their education and prior work experience as well as the demand for labor in their vicinities. The availability of support services, including transportation and day care, will also determine their job hunting success. If they succeed, their incomes will rise and the rent revenues of local housing authorities will increase. If they fail to find work while their benefits are terminated, the rent revenues of authorities will be reduced. The federal government will also be affected by the welfare reform schemes.

Reports, Employment, United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Welfare recipients, Housing authorities

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'Human rights and social welfare policy reform: views from the field': a discussion

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Research in the field of human rights and social welfare must deal with the concepts of class and culture. The definition of these concepts have an impact in how poverty is analyzed and how it is addressed. The definition of class and culture is divided between materialist conceptions and idealist conceptions. Idealist perspectives are noted for its affinity to human right violations because such conceptions can be highly relativist, fuzzy, open to reinterpretation and susceptible to rhetorics.

Social policy, Human rights, Social service

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