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Acs, Gregory and Eric Toder (2007). "Should We Subsidize Work? Welfare Reform, the Earned Income Tax Credit and Optimal Transfers." International Tax and Public Finance, 14:3, 327-343.
Antel, John J. (1992). "The Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Dependency: Some Statistical Evidence." The Review of Economics and Statistics 74:3, 467-473
Barrett, Alan and Yvonne McCarthy (2008). "Immigrants and welfare programmes: exploring the interactions between immigrant characteristics, immigrant welfare dependence, and welfare policy." Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 24:3, 542-559.
Collins, Jane Lou and Victoria Mayer. (2010) Both Hands Tied: Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom in the Low-Wage Labor Market. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Dean, Hartley (2004). The Ethics of Welfare: Human Rights, Dependency, and Responsibility. Bristol: The Policy Press
Harris, Kathleen Mullen (1996). "Life After Welfare: Women, Work, and Repeat Dependency." American Sociological Review, 61:3, 407-426
Hoynes, Hilary and Thomas MaCurdy (1994). "Has the Decline in Benefits Shortened Welfare Spells?" The American Economic Review 84:2, 43-48.
Hu, Wei-Yin (1999) "Child Support, Welfare Dependency, and Women's Labor Supply." The Journal of Human Resources, 34:1, 71-103.
Ihlanfeldt, Keith R. and David L. Sjoquist (1998). "The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis: A Review of Recent Studies and Their Implications for Welfare Reform." Housing Policy Debate, 9:4, 849-892.
O'Connor, B. (2001) "Intellectual Origins of Welfare Dependency." Australian Journal of Social Issues, 36:3, August 2001.
Raphael, Jody (1996) "Domestic Violence and Welfare Receipt: Toward a New Feminist Theory of Welfare Dependency." Harvard Women's Law Journal.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "2008 Indicators of Welfare Dependency." http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/indicators08/ch1.shtml
JuliaK ( talk) 05:39, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
This article should not be speedy deleted as having no substantive content, because... (your reason here)
Hi moderators - I established this article as part of this project for the United States Education Program on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:United_States_Education_Program/Courses/Berkeley_Sociology_Poverty_Course_(Sandra_Smith)
Please see "Week 5.)
I am a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. This week, my assignment is to compile a bibliography of potential sources on the talk page for this article. I figured I couldn't make a talk page without making the main page. I meant for it to be a placeholder. JuliaK ( talk) 06:18, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Overall, the article presents a good overview of the government's view of welfare dependency. However, the article could be drawn out much more, especially to include views of and information on aspects of welfare dependency not as directly related to the government. Perhaps include information on the lived experience of welfare dependency, from the recipients' perspective, instead of relying on information from the providers' perspective. Qualitative studies may be of use here. As it is lengthened, a more detailed organizational scheme may become necessary.
The section on mechanisms could be drawn out. Perhaps highlight a number of proposed explanations and causal factors addressing why people become dependent on welfare. Discuss each, as well as criticisms of each.
The indicators used by the government could be discussed at greater length. What does each one measure? How are they measured? Are they contested as accurate measures? For many of them, what they are actually measuring is unclear.
The discussion of "popular culture" includes some unverified statements. This is especially apparent by the statement "people viewed as welfare-dependent are not defrauding the system, but rather doing nothing to improve their situation, choosing to draw benefits when there are alternatives available." What alternatives are available? What evidence is there that welfare-dependent recipients are not pursuing these alternative to no avail? Stating that welfare-dependent recipients are doing nothing to improve their situation is a bold claim that must be cited, along with information about what can be done, and those that are trying to improve their situation. Like the other sections, the popular culture section could be drawn out to include various assumptions/stereotypes/portrayals of welfare-dependent recipients, and then a discussion of the sources and accuracy of each.
Hello, I am an undergraduate student from UCSD. As part of my assignment, I will be giving feedback regarding two questions: A. Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference?; and G. Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added? Awitoela ( talk) 05:18, 26 April 2022 (UTC) Awitoela
38.102.47.97 ( talk) 19:47, 27 October 2011 (UTC)ss114
The result of the move request was: moved, uncontroversial. (non-admin closure) Jenks24 ( talk) 07:34, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
Welfare Dependency →
Welfare dependency – No reason for caps.
5hin3 (
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05:15, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
Overall, I would suggest reorganizing the article to the following format (detailed discussion below under general edits should clarify this new structure)
August 15, 2006 Tuesday Late Edition - Final "End Welfare Lite As We Know It" By Douglas J. Besharov
November 16, 1992, Monday, Late Edition - Final "A Landmark For Families" By Daniel Patrick Moynihan
June 25, 1988, Saturday, Late City Final Edition "Welfare Without Dependency"
May 29, 2007 Tuesday Regional Edition "The Rise Of the Bottom Fifth; How to Build on the Gains Of Welfare Reform" by: Ron Haskins
June 5, 2000, Monday, Final Edition "Two Takes on Welfare Reform" William Raspberry
June 4, 1992, Thursday, Final Edition "The Real Trouble With Welfare; It's not the dependency, it's the sense of hopelessness." William Raspberry
November 12, 1987, Thursday, Final Edition "POLICY AND POVERTY"
You could draw out this section significantly to detail the nuances surrounding the trade-offs women make between deciding between welfare and work. You could also discuss Murray's AFDC thought-experiments here about how welfare will always cause recipients to be dependent and so we should just do away with welfare all together.
This website ( http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/indicators08/execsum.shtml) looks like it includes recent statistics including:
Housing Policy Debate • Volume 9, Issue 4 "The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis: A Review of Recent Studies and Their Implications for Welfare Reform" Keith R. Ihlanfeldt and David L. Sjoquist
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Acs, Gregory and Eric Toder (2007). "Should We Subsidize Work? Welfare Reform, the Earned Income Tax Credit and Optimal Transfers." International Tax and Public Finance, 14:3, 327-343.
Antel, John J. (1992). "The Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Dependency: Some Statistical Evidence." The Review of Economics and Statistics 74:3, 467-473
Barrett, Alan and Yvonne McCarthy (2008). "Immigrants and welfare programmes: exploring the interactions between immigrant characteristics, immigrant welfare dependence, and welfare policy." Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 24:3, 542-559.
Collins, Jane Lou and Victoria Mayer. (2010) Both Hands Tied: Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom in the Low-Wage Labor Market. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Dean, Hartley (2004). The Ethics of Welfare: Human Rights, Dependency, and Responsibility. Bristol: The Policy Press
Harris, Kathleen Mullen (1996). "Life After Welfare: Women, Work, and Repeat Dependency." American Sociological Review, 61:3, 407-426
Hoynes, Hilary and Thomas MaCurdy (1994). "Has the Decline in Benefits Shortened Welfare Spells?" The American Economic Review 84:2, 43-48.
Hu, Wei-Yin (1999) "Child Support, Welfare Dependency, and Women's Labor Supply." The Journal of Human Resources, 34:1, 71-103.
Ihlanfeldt, Keith R. and David L. Sjoquist (1998). "The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis: A Review of Recent Studies and Their Implications for Welfare Reform." Housing Policy Debate, 9:4, 849-892.
O'Connor, B. (2001) "Intellectual Origins of Welfare Dependency." Australian Journal of Social Issues, 36:3, August 2001.
Raphael, Jody (1996) "Domestic Violence and Welfare Receipt: Toward a New Feminist Theory of Welfare Dependency." Harvard Women's Law Journal.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "2008 Indicators of Welfare Dependency." http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/indicators08/ch1.shtml
JuliaK ( talk) 05:39, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
This article should not be speedy deleted as having no substantive content, because... (your reason here)
Hi moderators - I established this article as part of this project for the United States Education Program on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:United_States_Education_Program/Courses/Berkeley_Sociology_Poverty_Course_(Sandra_Smith)
Please see "Week 5.)
I am a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. This week, my assignment is to compile a bibliography of potential sources on the talk page for this article. I figured I couldn't make a talk page without making the main page. I meant for it to be a placeholder. JuliaK ( talk) 06:18, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Overall, the article presents a good overview of the government's view of welfare dependency. However, the article could be drawn out much more, especially to include views of and information on aspects of welfare dependency not as directly related to the government. Perhaps include information on the lived experience of welfare dependency, from the recipients' perspective, instead of relying on information from the providers' perspective. Qualitative studies may be of use here. As it is lengthened, a more detailed organizational scheme may become necessary.
The section on mechanisms could be drawn out. Perhaps highlight a number of proposed explanations and causal factors addressing why people become dependent on welfare. Discuss each, as well as criticisms of each.
The indicators used by the government could be discussed at greater length. What does each one measure? How are they measured? Are they contested as accurate measures? For many of them, what they are actually measuring is unclear.
The discussion of "popular culture" includes some unverified statements. This is especially apparent by the statement "people viewed as welfare-dependent are not defrauding the system, but rather doing nothing to improve their situation, choosing to draw benefits when there are alternatives available." What alternatives are available? What evidence is there that welfare-dependent recipients are not pursuing these alternative to no avail? Stating that welfare-dependent recipients are doing nothing to improve their situation is a bold claim that must be cited, along with information about what can be done, and those that are trying to improve their situation. Like the other sections, the popular culture section could be drawn out to include various assumptions/stereotypes/portrayals of welfare-dependent recipients, and then a discussion of the sources and accuracy of each.
Hello, I am an undergraduate student from UCSD. As part of my assignment, I will be giving feedback regarding two questions: A. Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference?; and G. Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added? Awitoela ( talk) 05:18, 26 April 2022 (UTC) Awitoela
38.102.47.97 ( talk) 19:47, 27 October 2011 (UTC)ss114
The result of the move request was: moved, uncontroversial. (non-admin closure) Jenks24 ( talk) 07:34, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
Welfare Dependency →
Welfare dependency – No reason for caps.
5hin3 (
talk)
05:15, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
Overall, I would suggest reorganizing the article to the following format (detailed discussion below under general edits should clarify this new structure)
August 15, 2006 Tuesday Late Edition - Final "End Welfare Lite As We Know It" By Douglas J. Besharov
November 16, 1992, Monday, Late Edition - Final "A Landmark For Families" By Daniel Patrick Moynihan
June 25, 1988, Saturday, Late City Final Edition "Welfare Without Dependency"
May 29, 2007 Tuesday Regional Edition "The Rise Of the Bottom Fifth; How to Build on the Gains Of Welfare Reform" by: Ron Haskins
June 5, 2000, Monday, Final Edition "Two Takes on Welfare Reform" William Raspberry
June 4, 1992, Thursday, Final Edition "The Real Trouble With Welfare; It's not the dependency, it's the sense of hopelessness." William Raspberry
November 12, 1987, Thursday, Final Edition "POLICY AND POVERTY"
You could draw out this section significantly to detail the nuances surrounding the trade-offs women make between deciding between welfare and work. You could also discuss Murray's AFDC thought-experiments here about how welfare will always cause recipients to be dependent and so we should just do away with welfare all together.
This website ( http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/indicators08/execsum.shtml) looks like it includes recent statistics including:
Housing Policy Debate • Volume 9, Issue 4 "The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis: A Review of Recent Studies and Their Implications for Welfare Reform" Keith R. Ihlanfeldt and David L. Sjoquist
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Hlyson ( talk • contribs) 17:34, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 28 March 2022 and 30 May 2022. Further details are available
on the course page. Student editor(s):
Awitoela (
article contribs).
This article is the subject of an
educational assignment at University of California-Berkeley supported by
WikiProject Sociology of Poverty and the
Wikipedia Ambassador Program during the 2011 Q3 term. Further details are available
on the course page.
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