Welfare Leavers and Returners
Description:
This study investigates a random sample of people who left welfare and a similar sample who returned to welfare in a mid-Atlantic state in 2002. Findings show that child-care difficulties are important barriers to employment and that they are bound together with other conditions of poverty such as adverse neighborhood conditions and other deprivations. Child care provision becomes difficult when neighborhoods are infested with drugs or guns or when caregivers must spend too much time finding the means to pay bills or rent and put food on the table.
Type of Resource:
Journal
Publication Date:
2007
Volume:
13
Issue:
2
Pages:
157-176
Location:
New York