Welfare, the Family, and Reproductive Behavior Report of a Meeting (1998) / Chapter Skim
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TANF is a block grant program, intended to give states much greater latitude in determining eligibility and benefit levels. The section of the 1996 act that set up TANF listed four goals of the new legislation, two of which can be considered primarily "demographic": · "prevent and reduce the incidence of out-of-wedlock pregnancies and establish annual numerical goals for preventing and reducing the incidence of these pregnancies" and · "encourage the formation and maintenance of two-parent families." 1 The first two goals were "(1)
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Given the lead time required for states to implement changes, for people to change behavior, and for evaluators and researchers to document what is happening, the empirical work discussed here of necessity documents behavior under the "old regime." But the premise for the workshop and for this publication is that these studies can provide important information about the effects of benefit programs on demographic behavior and about how to evaluate them, which is needed more than ever in this latest phase of welfare reform. The states are still busy designing and redesigning programs, and much of the research addresses the key issue of how behavior
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