scholarly journals Economic Self-Sufficiency and Implementation of TANF in the District of Columbia

2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Ashley P. Simmons-Rudolph
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
District Of Columbia ◽  
State Level ◽  
Welfare Recipients ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Welfare Systems ◽  
Temporary Assistance ◽  
Depth Interviews

Even as federal policymakers debate the reauthorization of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) legislation, state-level activists are beginning to discuss the best ways to implement the policy in their locales. The District of Columbia has experienced the lowest reduction in percentage of welfare caseloads in the country since the 1996 welfare reauthorization. This study explores implementation of welfare policy that both facilitates and hinders the ability of DC welfare clients to become self-sufficient. The study features in-depth interviews with twenty-six welfare clients in the District to add individual voices to the quantitative data gathered on the topic. Specifically, this paper explores the context of welfare clients' lives before and once on welfare, and asks which welfare policies they perceive to be obstacles to their own self-sufficiency. A limited ability to save money, few childcare options, strict transportation and job search requirements, and poor relationships with caseworkers all hinder a client's ability to support herself without assistance from TANF. A qualitative analysis will show that welfare recipients want and are ready to be self sufficient and have clear ideas of the current barriers embedded within the welfare systems that make their personal escape from poverty more difficult.

The Aftermath of Welfare Reform

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Seccombe ◽  
Heather Hartley ◽  
Jason Newsom ◽  
Kim Hoffman ◽  
Gwen C. Marchand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
State Level ◽  
Medicaid Program ◽  
Medicaid Enrollment ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Employment Characteristics ◽  
Temporary Assistance

This research reports the initial findings of a statewide study that looks at health, insurance, and access to health care among families leaving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) for work. Most national and state-level evaluation projects focus primarily on the employment characteristics of TANF leavers and pay little or no attention to health and access to health care. The quantitative data are from a sample of 637 adults in Oregon leaving TANF for work, and they are personalized by qualitative data from a subsample of 90 respondents. Our findings reveal significant barriers to accessing the health care system, even at a time when Medicaid enrollment is considered automatic, in a state with a relatively generous expanded Medicaid program.

Pathways to Employment: The Experiences of TANF Recipients with Employment Services

2007 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Beimers ◽  
Robert L. Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Welfare Recipients ◽  
Work Readiness ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
North Central ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Temporary Assistance ◽  
The U.S

The passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 by the U.S. Congress required welfare recipients to quickly move into the workforce. Employment services agencies perform a key role in this process by providing welfare recipients with work readiness and job search skills. This article reviews the findings of an empirical study of the experiences and employment outcomes of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients referred to contracted employment services agencies. The study involves a random-sample survey of 151 TANF recipients in a large, urban, north-central county. The findings suggest that generic work readiness activities may be of limited utility unless they include job leads to actual employment opportunities. The article concludes with a discussion of critical issues for practitioners.

Getting to Work and Other Places the Poor Have to Go

2000 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-13
Author(s):  
Beverly Ward ◽  
Rosemary Mathias
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
State Level ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Welfare Recipients ◽  
Welfare To Work ◽  
Major Barrier ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Board Of Regents ◽  
Care Training ◽  
Transportation Research

Lack of reliable transportation is a major barrier to linking current welfare recipients with job opportunities. Both private vehicles and public transportation play key roles in accessing jobs. Local investments in public transportation vary significantly from area to area, resulting in disparities of what level of investment is required to ensure that adequate transportation is available for those who need it. Even in communities well-served by public transportation, current services may be inadequate for providing transportation for former welfare recipients joining the work force, especially when work transportation is linked to the need to access child care, training, education, and other services. Based on extensive work carried out by anthropologists at the USF Center for Urban Transportation Research, this presentation covers two main issues: (1) an overview of the Florida WAGES program and of efforts pertaining to welfare to work and access to jobs in other states; (2) the extent to which WAGES and public transportation programs are integrated and coordinated at the local and state level in Florida. The research was funded from the Center's base operating funds provided by the Florida Board of Regents.

scholarly journals The Culture of Amateur Real Estate Investing

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Garboden
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Prior Experience ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Real Estate Investment ◽  
Real Estate Markets ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Do So

The majority of rental properties in the U.S. today is owned by small- to medium-sized investors, many of whom enter the trade with little prior experience. This paper considers the cultural factors that motivate these amateurs to purchase real estate–an investment with high risks and relatively poor returns. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 93 investors in three heterogeneous real estate markets, Baltimore, MD, Dallas, TX, and Cleveland, OH, combined with participant observation of 22 real estate investment association meetings (REIAs), this paper finds that amateurs who decide to become investors often do so during periods when their professional identities are insecure or they perceive their retirement portfolios to be insufficient. Through participation in real estate investment associations and other investor networks, they quickly internalize “investor culture,” embracing ideologies of self-sufficiency and risk. “Investor culture”—perpetuated by REIAs--motivates and legitimizes strategies of action that lead to increasingly leveraged investments. Third-party actors, including real estate gurus, paid mentors, and private “hard money” lenders exploit the intersection of insecurity and the propagation of investor culture to profit off amateurs’ investment decisions.

scholarly journals Kepatuhan dan Ketepatan Tenaga Medis dalam Pengisian Assessment Pre Dialisis di Klinik Hemodialisis Nitipuran Health Center

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 268
Author(s):  
Raditya Priambodo ◽  
Elsye Maria Rosa ◽  
Sri Sundari
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Risk Of Falls ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Indicators ◽  
Service Standards ◽  
Depth Interviews

Background: The National Hospital Accreditation Standards (SNARS) state that one of the key indicators in patient-focused service standards is patient assessment. The purpose of this study was to analyze the level of compliance and accuracy of medical personnel in pre dialysis assessments at NHC. Subjects and Method: This study uses a mixed method with the Cohort Study approach. Research subjects were medical records for quantitative data and doctors, nurses and head nurses for qualitative data. Quantitative data analysis with descriptive analysis, and qualitative analysis with in-depth interviews. Result: The level of compliance and accuracy of medical personnel in filling the pre dialysis assessment at the Nitipuran Hemodialysis Clinic is not quite good. The implementation of pre dialysis assessment at the NHC includes physical status, medical history, history of drug allergy, assessment of pain, risk of falls, and educational needs. Constraints include time constraints, assessments are filled in immediately without checking in detailly, there are gaps in the hourly monitoring records. Conclusion: compliance and accuracy of medical personnel in filling out assessments must be improved.

scholarly journals Software-Sorted Exclusion of Asylum Seekers in Norway and Finland

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Funda Ustek-Spilda ◽  
Marja Alastalo
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
Democratic Regimes ◽  
Welfare Systems ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Welfare State

As James Scott writes, to be able to govern, administrative bodies need to make objects of government legible. Yet migrant persons do not fall neatly into the categories of administrative agencies. This categorical ambiguity is illustrated in the tendency to exclude asylum seekers from various population registers and to not provide them with ID numbers, which constitute the backbone of many welfare states in Europe. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Norway and Finland, and in Eurostat and UNECE, we study how practices of population registration and statistics compilation on foreign-born persons can be beset by differential and at times contradictory outlooks. We show that these outlooks are often presented in the form of seemingly apolitical software infrastructures or decisions made in response to software with limited, if any, discretion available to bureaucrats, statisticians, and policymakers. Our two cases, Norway and Finland, are considered social-democratic regimes within Esping-Andersen’s famous global social policy typology. Using science and technology studies and specifically “double social life of methods,” we seek to trace how software emerges as both a device for administrative bookkeeping and also for enacting the “migrant” categories with particular implications for how the welfare state comes to be established and how welfare policies come to be implemented. We note that even if all statistical production necessarily involves inclusions and exclusions, how the “boundaries” are set for whom to include and exclude directly affects the lives of those implicated by these decisions, and as such, they are onto-political. This means that welfare policies get made at the point of sorting, categorizing, and ordering of data, even before it is fed into software and other administrative devices of government. In view of this, we show that methods enact their subjects—we detail how the methods set to identify and measure refugee statistics in Europe end up enacting the welfare services they have access to. We argue that with increasing automation and datafication, the scope of welfare systems is being curtailed under the label of efficiency, and individual contexts are ignored.

The Motivations, Constraints, and Behaviour of Tanzania's Frontline Education Providers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacobus Cilliers ◽  
Shardul Oza
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Time Use ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Nationwide Survey ◽  
Baseline Survey ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Last Mile ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Shed Light

In this note, we leverage data from a nationwide survey conducted in 2019 in Ethiopia to shed light on what Ward Education Officers do, their understanding of their own role, and the constraints they face in executing their responsibilities. We interviewed 397 WEOs responsible for primary schools across 23 districts and six regions of Tanzania as part of a baseline survey conducted between February and May 2019. This note contributes to a growing literature on the activities, self-perceptions, and motivation of public sector officials in charge of “last mile” service delivery. For example, Aiyar and Bhattacharya (2016) use time-use diaries, in-depth interviews, and quantitative data to understand the views, attitudes, and activities of sub-district education sector officials, called block education officers, in India.

Case Study Methodology

2019 ◽  
pp. 60-82
Author(s):  
Bela Florenthal ◽  
Ashley Ismailovski
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Business Cases ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
Internal Sources ◽  
Depth Interviews

This chapter provides an overview of case study methodology and its applications in writing case studies. The reader is introduced to the specific procedures that are implemented when developing a case study for educational purposes. The methodology discussed here is comprised of three parts: secondary data analysis (external and internal sources), qualitative data collection and analysis (e.g., in-depth interviews and observation technique), and quantitative data collection and analysis (e.g., surveys and questionnaires). After describing each method, the authors provide specific examples from published business cases to cement reader's understanding of how to successfully develop that method.

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