Welfare reform in America
Subtitle: perspectives and prospects
By: Paul M. Sommers, editor.
Contributors: Sommers, Paul M.; Middlebury College Conference on Economic Issues (2nd : 1980)
Series: Middlebury conference series on economic issues
Publisher: Kluwer-Nijhoff
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Public welfare -- United States -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Papers presented at the second annual Middlebury Conference on Economic Issues, held in April 1980.
Table of contents: title: Goals and purposes of social welfare expenditures / Robert J. Lampman; title: Welfare reform / William P. Albrecht; title: The war on income poverty / Sheldon Danziger and Robert Plotnik; title: The effectiveness of current transfer programs in reducing poverty / G. William Hoagland; title: How effective is our multiple benefit anti-poverty program? / Morton Paglin; title: The role of food stamps in welfare reforms / J. Fred Giertz and Dennis H. Sullivan; title: What is an appropriate benefit level for the unemployed? / Daniel S. Hamermesh; title: The AFDC-unemployed fathers program / James R. Hosek; title: The evolution of the work issue in welfare reform / Larry L. Orr and Felicity Skidmore; title: Direct job creation / Robert H. Haveman; title: The effect of a negative income tax on work effort / Robert A. Moffitt; title: A study of the interaction between cash transfer programs and employment programs / David M. Betson and David H. Greenberg.