West Coast Poverty Center Seminar Series: Jane Mauldon on Response to Welfare Time Limit
November 2, 2009
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Forum
The West Coast Poverty Center presents Jane Mauldon.
TALK TITLE: "Double Jeopardy: How Families with Employment Barriers Respond to California’s Welfare Time Limit"
TALK ABSTRACT: CalWORKs–California’s TANF program–is intended to protect children from hardship when their families reach the 5-year TANF time limit, by permitting families to receive a “child-only” grant under the state-funded Safety Net program. Typically this shift reduces the family's grant by about $120 monthly. In this study we draw on administrative data and a two-wave panel survey of CalWORKs recipients nearing the time limit to investigate the impacts of this change in welfare grants for families’ incomes and hardships. Our focus is on how the timing-out experiences of the half of the caseload who faced barriers to employment differed from the experiences of welfare recipients with no barriers.
SPEAKER BIO:
Jane Mauldon earned her undergraduate degree from Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy and Economics and her Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, where she studied demography and public policy. Her substantive interests are in welfare policy and child and adolescent health, including disabled children and adolescent pregnancy. Her teaching interests include health policy and economics, poverty and public policy, demography, and quantitative methods. She recently evaluated the teen-parent component of California’s welfare reforms.
Refreshments served.
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