The impact of welfare reform
Subtitle: the trend in State caseloads, 1985-1998
By: Robert E. Rector [and] Sarah E. Youssef.
Contributors: Youssef, Sarah E.; Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Publisher: The Heritage Foundation
Published: 1999
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
Subjects: Public welfare -- United States -- States -- Statistics.; Welfare recipients -- United States -- States -- Statistics.
Genres: Statistics.
Description: "The 1996 reform must be understood in the context of the overall U.S. welfare system.  The welfare system is the total set of government programs-federal and state-that are explicitly designed to assist poor and low-income Americans.  The federal government runs over 70 major welfare programs to aid lower-income Americans, and many states operate their own independent programs as well. ..."--Introduction, p. v.