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Welfare reform in the United States
— implications for British social policy; with commentaries by Kitty Stewart, David Piachaud and Howard Glennerster | | Author(s) | James Midgley |
| Corporate Author | ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion - CASE, Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines - STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Publisher | STICERD, London, 2008 |
| Pages | 54 pp (CASEpaper 131) |
| Source | Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case |
| Keywords | Social welfare ; Social policy ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Recent government pronouncements in the UK and above all the recent Conservative Party (2008) policy document on welfare reform suggest that US welfare reform is increasingly being taken as a model for the UK. What lessons should the UK draw from US experience? The long established means-tested programme for needy families known as Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was replaced in 1996 with a welfare to work programme known as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The historical background and features of the new programme are elaborated and the way it has been implemented in varied ways in different states is documented. The findings of a number of outcome studies assessing the programme's impact and effectiveness are reviewed. The three commentaries consider how the American experience should be a guide to welfare policy in Britain. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080512004 B |
| Classmark | TY: TM2: 7T |
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