Welfare Reform: Tracking Issues

Welfare Reform Tracking Issues:

Tracking Recipients after They Leave Welfare: State tracking studies provide information concerning critical questions about what is happening to the large number of families leaving welfare. While these studies do not provide the basis for any general conclusions about the success of reforms, they provide us with the first set of data regarding the effects of welfare reform. They illustrate both the positive results of welfare reform-more ex-recipients are working; and the remaining questions-How do we move recipients who are not working into jobs so they can establish stable support systems for their families?

Summaries of individual states studies.

Arizona	Arkansas	Colorado
Florida	Georgia	Indiana
Iowa	Kansas	Maryland
Massachusetts	Mississippi	Missouri
New Jersey	New York	Oklahoma
Pennsylvania	South Carolina	Texas
Washington	Washington	Wisconsin

Tracking Welfare Reform: Designing Follow-up Studies of Recipients Who Leave Welfare

When Welfare Ends--October/November 1998 State Legislatures Magazine

Eight Questions to Ask about Welfare Reforms Click here to find out what questions legislatures should ask about Welfare Reform.

For more information please contact Jack Tweedie at NCSL, 303-830-2200.

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