Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Alan Weil and Kenneth Finegold
1 Putting Policy into Practice: Five Years of Welfare Reform
Pamela A. Holcomb and Karin Martinson
2 Making the Transition from Welfare to Work: Successes but Continuing Concerns
Pamela J. Loprest
3 Family Structure and Childbearing before and after Welfare Reform
Robert I. Lerman
4 Family Incomes: Rising, Falling, or Holding Steady?
Sheila R. Zedlewski
5 How Are Children Faring under Welfare Reform?
Martha Zaslow, Kristin Anderson Moore, Kathryn Tout, Juliet P. Scarpa, and Sharon Vandivere
6 Work Opportunities for People Leaving Welfare
Demetra Smith Nightingale
7 Child Care and Welfare Reform
Gina Adams and Monica Rohacek
8 Health Insurance, Welfare, and Work
Alan Weil and John F. Holahan
9 The "Hard-to-Serve": Definitions and Implications
Martha R. Burt
10 Assessing Welfare Reform's Immigrant Provisions
Michael Fix and Jeffrey S. Passel
11 Race, Ethnicity, and Welfare Reform
Kenneth Finegold and Sarah Staveteig
12 TANF Funding and Spending across the States
Sheila R. Zedlewski, David Merriman, Sarah Staveteig, and Kenneth Finegold
Table of Acronyms
Appendix. Urban Institute Data Resources for Welfare Reform
About the Editors
About the Authors
Index
Welfare Reform: The Next Act, edited by Alan Weil and Kenneth Finegold, is available in paperback from the Urban Institute Press (6" x 9", 272 pages, ISBN 0-87766-710-1, $26.50).
