Articles:
Child Care in the Wake of Welfare Reform: The Impact of Government Subsidies on the Economic Well-Being of Single-Mother Families
Marcia K. Meyers; Wen-Jui Han; Jane Waldfogel; Irwin Garfinkel
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- Title:
- Child Care in the Wake of Welfare Reform: The Impact of Government Subsidies on the Economic Well-Being of Single-Mother Families
- Author(s):
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Meyers, Marcia K.
Han, Wen-Jui
Waldfogel, Jane
Garfinkel, Irwin - Date:
- 2001
- Type:
- Articles
- Department:
- Social Work
- Volume:
- 75
- Permanent URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:14649
- Book/Journal Title:
- Social Service Review
- Abstract:
- Using microsimulation techniques to estimate the impact of welfare reform in New York, we find that 5 years after federal and state reforms child-care use and costs will rise substantially and families will bear most of these costs. When family incomes are adjusted for child-care costs, most single-mother families will continue to be poor even with greater earnings, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and food stamps. The distribution of child-care costs between government and families, and the implications for poverty, will depend on the extent to which government subsidizes the child-care costs of single mothers.
- Subject(s):
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Economics
Individual and family studies - DOI:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/591881
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