After welfare reform, are ‘deeply poor’ worse off?

U. CHICAGO / U. MICHIGAN (US) — Although the US federal government’s 1996 reform of welfare brought some improvements for the nation’s poor, extremely poor Americans may be experiencing even more hardship, new research shows.The reforms radically changed cash assistance—what most Americans think of as “welfare”—by imposing lifetime limits on the receipt of aid and requiring recipients to work. About the same time, major social policy reforms during the 1990s raised the benefits of work for low-income families....

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Published By: Society & Culture - Futurity - Monday, 17 September