Welfare Reform in America
Welfare Reform in America

Author: Shenhar Venakhi

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9781560724087

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A resource to understanding the complexities of welfare reform furnishing an even handed evaluation of welfare abolition schemes. The six essays excerpted from CRS Report analyze state welfare initiatives, jobs for welfare recipients, tax incentives to train or retrain the work force, work incentive

Welfare to Work
Welfare to Work

Author: DIANE Publishing Company

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1995-03

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 9780788117664

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Addresses concerns about the growth in welfare caseloads and the growing consensus among the public, practitioners, and welfare recipients that the current Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program should be changed. Examines the progress JOBS (Job Opportunities and Basic Skill Training program) has made in (1) serving an increasingly larger portion of the AFDC caseload, and (2) ensuring that program participants get work and leave AFDC. Charts and tables.

Annual Report
Annual Report

Author: United States. National Commission for Employment Policy

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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Improving the Odds
Improving the Odds

Author: Burt S. Barnow

Publisher: The Urban Insitute

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780877666899

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The labor market has changed dramatically in recent decades. In the 1980s an average of 2 million workers each year lost their jobs because of the increasingly global economy, rapid advances in technology, and corporate downsizing. During the same period, immigration increased and Congress passed welfare reform legislation that required many more Americans to join the workforce. Legislators have looked closely at federal job training programs in recent years, and in 1998 passed the two major acts mandating change. In Improving the Odds, experts on labor policy explore the effects of current programs on earnings and employment, recommend improvements in programs, and assess the methodologies used to measure their effectiveness. The editors offer several strategies to help policymakers design programs that fulfill the promise of keeping workers out of poverty. Contents: -Publicly Funded Training in a Changing Labour Market (Burt S. Barnow and Christopher T. King) -The Economic, Demographic, and Social Context of Future Employment and Training Programs (Frank Bennici, Steven Mangum, and A ndrew M. Sum) -Welfare Employment Programs: Impacts and Cost-Effectiveness of Employment and Training Activities (Lisa Plimpton and Demetra Smith Nightingale) -The Impact of Job Training Partnership Act Programs for Adult Welfare Recipients (Jodi Nudelman) -Training Success Stories for Adults and Out-of-School Youth: A Tale of Two States (Christopher T. King, with Jerome A. Olson, Leslie O. Lawson, Charles E. Trott, and John Baj) -Employment and Training Programs for Out-of-School Youth: Past Effects and Lessons for the Future (Robert I. Lerman) -Customized Training for Employers: Training People for Jobs That Exist and Employers Who Want to Hire Them (Kellie Isbell, John Trutko, and vBurt S. Barnow) -Training Programs for Dislocated Workers (Duane E. Leigh) -Methodologies for Determining the Effectiveness of Training Programs (Daniel Friedlander, David H. Greenberg, and Philip K. Robins) -Reflections on Training Policies and Programs (Garth L. Mangum) -Strategies for Improving the Odds (Burt S. Barnow and Christopher T. King).

Leading Issues in Black Political Economy
Leading Issues in Black Political Economy

Author: Thomas D. Boston

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-01-16

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 1351320432

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Leading Issues in Black Political Economy brings together the foremost experts on issues ranging from employment, training, and education of African Americans. It also emphasizes macro-economic concerns of business development with special emphasis on long-term trends of black-owned businesses. The work emphasizes welfare considerations in an anti-welfare epoch, and the role of affirmative action now that it is under attack. Attention is given to the role of race in the continuing disparity of income distribution in American society. The highlights of Leading Issues include "An Employment and Business Strategy for the Next Century: A Comment," by Thomas D. Boston; "Long Term Trends and Prospects for Black-owned Business," by Andrew F. Brimmer; "Is the U.S. Small Business Administration a Racist Institution?" by Timothy Bates; "Worker Re-Training and Labor Market Outcomes: A New Focus for Labor Research," by James B. Stewart; "Race, Cognitive Skills, Psychological Capital, and Wages," by Arthur H. Goldsmith, William Darity, Jr., and Jonathan R. Veum; and "Reparations and Public Policy," by Richard F. America. The overall findings suggest that empirical wage equation specifications do matter. The role of psychological capital is critical in the marketplace. Race is indeed an important determinant of wages-especially when the influence of both cognitive skills and psychological capital are included in the wage equation. This volume will be of crucial interest to economists, political scientists, sociologists, and policy analysts studying African-American life. Thomas D. Boston is editor of the Review of Black Political Economy and professor of economics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the co-editor, with Catherine L. Ross, of The Inner City: Urban Poverty and Economic Development in the Next Century, also available from Transaction.