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Foreword
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. This paper is one in a series of discussion papers analyzing information from these and other sources.
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 and our project officer at ACF, Alan Yaffe, for his support. In addition, this paper could not have been written if not for the following past and present UI staff members who worked on the conceptualization and implementation of the WRD, and/or who worked on coding and verifying the data for 2001 and prior years: Matthew Buettgens, Dan Dowhan, Jerome Gallagher, Megan Gallagher, Jennifer Godwin, Brian Gormley, Tara Grieshop, Amelia Gruber, Jeffrey Krehely, Alberto Martini, Heather McCallum, Lori O’Brien, Monique Ouimette, Kevin Perese, Dorothy Preston, 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. 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 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.
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Copyright © 2004. Permission is granted for reproduction of this document, with attribution to the Urban Institute.
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