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Welfare, the Family, and Reproductive Behavior Report of a Meeting (1998) / Chapter Skim
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Effects of Welfare on the Family
Pages 13-15

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... These are large topics in their own right,2 so the workshop discussion was necessarily selective. Effects on Children Janet Currie selected for review eight large federal programs providing either cash transfers (AFDC, Earned Income Tax Credit)
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... A basic question, emphasized by both Lindsay Chase-Lansdale and William Darity, Jr., is whether the welfare system does indeed keep children out of poverty and whether proposed changes will increase the number of children in poverty. The Missing Fathers The Family Support Act of 1988 required all states to provide AFDC in some forms to eligible two-parent families and to make serious efforts to establish paternity and to collect child support payments from absent fathers.
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Key Terms

  • income tax
  • support awards
  • tax credit
  • food stamps
  • child outcomes

  • cash transfers
  • earned income
  • support act
  • collect child
  • cash benefits

  • establish paternity
  • currie selected
  • joseph hotz
  • wade horn
  • proposed alternatives

  • specific information
  • policy implication
  • programs providing
  • affects child
  • daily routines

  • especially bridgman
  • children tend
  • various child
  • summarized studies
  • receiving payments

  • child health
  • adjusted periodically
  • various combinations
  • decade ago
  • pregnant women


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