Since its beginnings, there has been heated public debate about whether AFDC should be a relatively ungenerous stop-gap program, or an anti-poverty program specifically designed to meet the needs of families headed by single women.
In contrast to stereotypes of pathological dependency on public assistance, single mothers participating in the AFDC program actually “package” income from several different sources, including paid employment, means- and non-means tested welfare benefits, and income from other family members, to provide for themselves and their children. These patterns are described in a new Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) study, “Welfare that Works,” based on a nationally-representative sample of single welfare mothers generated from the US Bureau of the Census’ Survey of Income and Program Participation.
Testimony concerning the Fair Pay Act of 1994 before the Subcommittee on Select Education and Civil Rights, U.S. House of Representatives Based on findings from the project The Economic Effects of Pay Equity in the States.
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Supporters of micro-enterprise argue that self-employment is a strategy that can improve the economic well-being of low-income families and promote economic development in poverty stricken urban areas.
Women have a unique relationship to the health care system in the United States that needs to be taken into account in health care reform.
This report is part of the Join Project on Women’s Health Care Policy Research of the Women’s Research and Education Institute and the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.
Testimony before the Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate, on the IWPR report Women’s Access to Health Insurance.
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