Welfare-to-Poverty
June 11, 2009 (posted by Queenie)The Bitter Fruit of Welfare Reform contains a review of the studies an data on caseload decline and post-aid employment. Much of the 2/3′s caseload reduction is from declines in participation by eligible families, often due to procedural barriers (or in Georgia, anecdotally, by outright lies and threats). Extreme poverty has increased, and the majority of post-time-limit families remain below poverty, with 30-50% of families being unemployed. Since welfare reform, the caseload closings based increased earnings has actually decline.