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Welfare Rules Databook:
State TANF Policies as of July 2003
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April 2005
Gretchen Rowe
with
Jeffrey Versteeg
The Urban Institute
Assessing the New Federalism: An Urban Institute Program to Assess Changing Social Policies
Department of Health and Human Services-USA
Assessing the New Federalism is a multiyear Urban Institute project designed to analyze the devolution of responsibility for social programs from the federal government to the states, focusing primarily on health care, income security, employment and training programs, and social services. Researchers monitor program changes and fiscal developments. Olivia Golden is the project director. In collaboration with Child Trends, the project studies changes in family well-being. The project aims to provide timely, nonpartisan information to inform public debate and to help state and local decisionmakers carry out their new responsibilities more effectively.
Key components of the project include a household survey and studies of policies in 13 states, available at the Urban Institute’s web site, http://www.urban.org.
The Assessing the New Federalism project is currently supported by The Annie E. Casey Foundation, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and The Ford Foundation.
The authors thank Linda Giannarelli for her input and guidance during this process. The authors also thank the many state administrators for verifying the WRD data, as well as our project officer at ACF, Alan Yaffe, and our project officer at ASPE, Elizabeth Lower-Basch, for their support. In particular, the authors thank Victoria Russell and Jennifer Holland for their research assistance on this project. In addition, this paper could not have been written if not for the following past and present UI staff members who were integral to the development and continuation of the Welfare Rules Database: Wainani Au, Christine Barber, Susanne Beechey, Matthew Buettgens, Corleta Carry, Dan Dowhan, Matthew Fellowes, Jerome Gallagher, Megan Gallagher, Lloyd Grieger, Jennifer Godwin, Brian Gormley, Tara Grieshop, Amelia Gruber, Cheri Harrington, Jeffrey Krehely, Joel Ludington, Alberto Martini, Heather McCallum, Kevin McManus, Lori O’Brien, Monique Ouimette, Kevin Perese, Dorothy Preston, Tracy Roberts, Lisa Sturtevant, Keith Watson, Susan Williams, and Elisabeth Wright.
This project was funded by The Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families and The Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
The nonpartisan Urban Institute publishes studies, reports, and books on timely topics worthy of public consideration. The views expressed are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the Urban Institute, its trustees, its funders, or other authors in the series.
Publisher: The Urban Institute, 2100 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037
Copyright © 2005. Permission is granted for reproduction of this document, with attribution to the Urban Institute.
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