Welfare Reform Proposals and the New York City Economy
Author: New York City-Rand Institute
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 100
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Author: New York City-Rand Institute
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Emanuel S. Savas
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780742549289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWelfare reform was a spectacular success in New York under Mayor Giuliani despite the city's history of liberal social programs and its huge, entrenched welfare system. The city reduced the numbers on welfare from 1,120,000 to 460,000 by changing the organizational culture, protecting against fraud, insisting on 'work first, ' adapting information technology, and contracting for job placement. The organizational culture was transformed by bold leadership that changed the welfare agency's mission and goals, overcame internal resistance, and prevailed over politicians who had a vested interest in the status quo and the media that were opposed to welfare reform. Welfare fraud was largely eliminated by dropping from the rolls those who were working and could not appear for in-person interviews, by fingerprinting recipients to catch those enrolled under multiple identities and those receiving welfare checks from other jurisdictions, by uncovering hidden income, by enrolling new applicants only after thorough investigation, and by tightening controls to prevent fraud by corrupt employees. JobStat, a computer-based system modeled after the Police Department's system used to track precinct activity, was developed to track the status of welfare recipients and to monitor the performance of the 'Job Centers, ' which were formerly called welfare offices. JobStat focused the attention of department personnel on performance indicators rather than on minutely specified rules. The Giuliani administration's major contribution to national welfare reform was the creation of the only system in the country with large-scale, alternative work arrangements that was able to acculturate large numbers of the never-employed to the world of work.
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 20
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 480
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Simon Black
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0820357545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe transformation of child care after welfare reform in New York City and the struggle against that transformation is a largely untold story. In the decade following welfare reform, despite increases in child care funding, there was little growth in New York's unionized, center-based child care system and no attempt to make this system more responsive to the needs of working mothers. As the city delivered child care services "on the cheap," relying on non-union home child care providers, welfare rights organizations, community legal clinics, child care advocates, low-income community groups, activist mothers, and labor unions organized to demand fair solutions to the child care crisis that addressed poor single mothers' need for quality, affordable child care as well as child care providers' need for decent work and pay. Social Reproduction and the City tells this story, linking welfare reform to feminist research and activism around the "crisis of care," social reproduction, and the neoliberal city. At a theoretical level, Simon Black's history of this era presents a feminist political economy of the urban welfare regime, applying a social reproduction lens to processes of urban neoliberalization and an urban lens to feminist analyses of welfare state restructuring and resistance. Feminist political economy and feminist welfare state scholarship have not focused on the urban as a scale of analysis, and critical approaches to urban neoliberalism often fail to address questions of social reproduction. To address these unexplored areas, Black unpacks the urban as a contested site of welfare state restructuring and examines the escalating crisis in social reproduction. He lays bare the aftermath of the welfare-to-work agenda of the Giuliani administration in New York City on child care and the resistance to policies that deepened race, class, and gender inequities.
Author: New York State Welfare Reform Task Force
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin Anderson
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 406
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMonograph on economic policy aspects of welfare and social policy in the USA - reviews the success and failure of poverty eradication, employment creation and income redistribution programmes, etc., And discusses relations and trends between social assistance, guaranteed income, taxation, unemployment and social costs, and examines president carter's social reform plan of 1977. Bibliography after each chapter, graph and statistical tables.
Author: New York (State). Office of the State Comptroller
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 34
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lowell Eugene Gallaway
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 24
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael L. Murray
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn unabashed review of economic justice, with a proposal for dramatic change in the American economic system, particularly in the area of welfare reform. Murray (business and public administration, Drake U.) admits to benefitting greatly from the economic system, then methodically explains everything that is wrong with it and proposes a guaranteed adequate income system as an alternative to welfare. While his diverse influences occasionally seem too scatter-shot for cohesion--his citations range from Milton Friedman to Kurt Vonnegut--his motivation is compassion, and the lively tone from his insurance-selling days is refreshing. Topics include the workplace, market alternatives, the history of guaranteed income plans, and cost and funding calculations. Paper edition (unseen), $22.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR