This study examines gender differences in postretirement employment, using the first eight
waves of Health and Retirement Study data. Gender is shown to be an important factor in …

One main effort of welfare reform is to replace public assistance with earnings. To date,
politicians and welfare reform advocates have applauded the efforts and claimed success …

This study investigated whether employment levels and characteristics of the jobs that
women obtain upon leaving TANF have changed over 12 quarters from Q4 1996 through Q3 …

The purpose of this study is to make sense of the transformation of the welfare state into a
“workfare” state using Ontario and New York State as existing cases. My central argument is …

Welfare reform in the 1990s was instituted with little apparent recognition of the importance
of regional differences in spatial distributions of and variations in welfare populations …

This chapter was written to acquaint counseling professionals with an underserved
population: those individuals who are, or have been, under supervision of the criminal …

Most observers agree that the reduction in welfare caseloads during the 1990s reflected
both the strong economy and welfare reform's focus on employment, work requirements, and …