…the War on Poverty…was not won by making people more self-sufficient, as President Johnson sought. Dependence (defined as receiving less than half of household income from market sources) among working-age adults and children more than doubled from 1967 to 2019. However, the rise in depend...
The Trump administration…will allow states to impose work requirements on abled-bodied adults to qualify for Medicaid. …it’s about time. …imposing work requirements on able-bodied adults will …help enrollees far more than Medicaid coverage will, mostly by giving them a strong incentive to se...
In the Nordic countries, municipal healthcare and social services provide care for older adults in need of assistance [1]. Healthcare and social services, funded by the welfare system, are allocated based on current welfare policies. Although older adults contribute to the cost, the welfare syste...
Our research addresses this question by integrating two very different, but complementary, lines of research—random assignment social experiments on the effects of welfare and employment programs on low-income adults and children, and longitudinal, qualitative interview studies of families who experienced ...
The resulting collision may lead older adults who have perceived the law of the jungle to go to two extremes: either fall into social depression, or enhance their positive attitude, and be spurred to cultivate a positive mentality. Therefore, this study focuses on assessing the potential ...
However, Pennsylvania’s CWS response is similar to the US both on rates of child welfare involvement ( 52.8 and 51.2 per 1000 children, respectively)19,42 and foster care placement (4.9 and 5.1 per 1000 children, respectively).43 Moreover, US rates of illicit drug use among adults are ...
(see 4.3 below for a further discussion). An investigator may opt to use one sex during fetal or neonatal development stages for part of a study while using juveniles and adults for other portions of a study with the goal of simplifying the husbandry. Unfortunately, this can create unintended...
(3) share back. Youth participants revealed photographs of “places and spaces” that impacted their lives, sharing their meaning with other youth and supportive adults in a group setting. The project concluded with a gallery showing, featuring a video highlighting the program participants’ ...
the government creates incentives to access welfare benefits that are beyond reason, resulting in an unemployed person on welfare payments earning more than a struggling worker. The welfare state is sometimes criticized as being a "nanny state" in which adults are coddled and treated like children...
Our main focus is on the overall loss per adult in pound sterling, although we provide estimates for each single reform in a robustness check. Welfare reforms were gradually phased in starting with changes to Incapacity Benefit from October 2010, followed by changes to Local Housing Allowance, ...