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Five Commentaries : Looking to the Future

Since welfare reform was enacted, caseloads have fallen dramatically, single mothers’ earnings and employment have increased, and the child poverty rate has fallen. These statistics do not tell the whole story, however. As the reauthorization debates unfold in 2002 around child care and the welfare block grant (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF), one of the key criteria for measuring the success of the changes implemented under welfare reform should be whether the well-being of children and families has improved.

Wendell E. Primus | W. Primus

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