D.C. This report has been prepared as part of the Urban Institute's Assessing the New Federalism project, which has received funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, the Fund for New Jersey, and the McKnight Foundation.
All errors are the responsibility of the authors.
The views expressed are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the Urban Institute or its funders. The authors owe special thanks to the many state and county welfare administrators who responded to our survey. The authors also wish to thank Marion Nichols and Cindy Mann of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities for their assistance with the survey instrument. Within the Urban Institute, we thank Sheila Zedlewski for her guidance throughout this project, Kyna Rubin and Scott Forrey for their editorial assistance, and the numerous persons who provided comments on earlier drafts of this report. This paper is dedicated to the memory of Steven D. Gold, who was co-director of Assessing the New Federalism until his death in August 1996.