Policy & Practice articles from June 1999

Policy & Practice archives from June 1999

Letter from the executive director.(reduction in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant to states)
June 1, 1999... As part of the budget process this year, the Senate Finance Committee proposed a $350 million reduction in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant to states. This proposal was ultimately abandoned as the states spoke with...

Making food stamps part of welfare reform.(includes related article on cost neutrality)
June 1, 1999... Welfare reform has brought massive change to state-operated cash assistance programs but, on certain key points, the Food Stamp Program has hardly changed. As a result, the two programs often seem to operate at cross-purposes, making it more...

New York.(Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program in New York)
June 1, 1999... The food pyramid, food labels, and cooking instruction are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to topics included in New York's Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program (FSNEP). The program, a unique partnership between county social...

Bridging disabilities and work.(Cover Story)
June 1, 1999... "Assistive technologies give people the capacity to do lots of high-tech work. Once that door is opened, then you have a whole range of careers." - Gary K. Weeks Oregon Department of Human Resources Mary Crawford, who uses a...

Life on welfare: who is getting cash assistance now?
June 1, 1999... The second anniversary of the enactment of welfare reform legislation recently passed with little fanfare. This landmark occasion may have gone generally unnoticed because most observers are now keenly focused on the growing number of research...

Piecing together the puzzle of teenage childbearing.
June 1, 1999... As the decade and the century draw to a close, reducing teenage childbearing remains a chaLLenge to social scientists, service providers, and public officials in the United States. Recent declines in the teenage birth rate are encouraging,...

Child support enforcement.
June 1, 1999... is working better than we think Changes in child support enforcement since the 1970s have succeeded in improving collection efforts more than we think. Yet, sometimes it is difficult to see how far we have come because the dramatic shift in...

Our do'ers profile.(Mark E. Orf of the Department of Health and Human Services)
June 1, 1999... In "Our Do'ers Profile," we highlight some of the hard working and talented individuals in the public human services field. This issue features Mark E. Orf of the Department of Health and Human Services in Columbia, South Carolina. Name:...