Explaining Restrictive TANF Policies: Group Threat Hypothesis and State Economy Conditions

Cheng, Tyrone C.; Lo, Celia C.

doi:10.1080/01488376.2018.1477698

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“…Alternatively, Fording and colleagues (2011) did not find a significant difference in sanctioning based on the proportion of nonwhite residents in a community. Cheng and Lo (2018) reported a conflicting finding that the size of a state's Hispanic population was linked to an increase in restrictive policies, whereas the size of the Black population was associated with fewer restrictive policies. This finding is counter to many others in this analysis, but authors posit that it may be due to Hispanic populations increasing more rapidly than Black populations in recent years, triggering more dominant group resentment based on the group threat analysis used in the study.…”

Section: Sanctioning By Racementioning

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A Systematic Literature Review of Welfare Sanctions and Racial Equity

Walsh

Roman

Parker

et al. 2023

JSEPA

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In the United States, welfare sanctions are designed to enforce compliance with program rules and are the most tangible and, in some cases, detrimental enforcement mechanism for recipients of public cash assistance. Whether or not they are equitably administered is critical to our understanding of the program and of safety net enforcement mechanisms across the sector. Using electronic databases of peer-reviewed articles across disciplines, this systematic literature review resulted in a deeper understanding of the research conducted related to racial inequities and welfare sanctions. The 29 studies included in this analysis highlight different rates and effects of sanctions for recipients depending on race and ethnicity. Findings are synthesized and recommendations for future research are presented.

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Section: Sanctioning By Racementioning

confidence: 99%

A Systematic Literature Review of Welfare Sanctions and Racial Equity

Walsh

Roman

Parker

et al. 2023

JSEPA

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“…Recognition of the extent and dimensions of decentralization in safety net programs have motivated an increasing amount of research examining cross-state differences in the generosity and scope of benefits, and terms or conditions of receipt (Bentele and Nicoli 2012;Cheng and Lo 2018;Hahn et al 2017;Soss et al 2011;. Other scholars have examined how different state policy choices result in cross-state variation or inequality in social safety-net provision and family policies (Bruch et al 2018;Campbell 2014;Parolin and Daiger von Gleichen 2020;Meyers et al 2001), in social service provision (Allard 2009;Kelly and Lobao 2021), and in state and local spending (Gais 2009;Hoynes and Schanzenbach 2018;McGuire and Merriman 2006;Hardy, Samudra, and Davis 2019;Reynolds et al 2021;Azevedo-McCaffrey and Safawi 2022) and taxes (Newman and O'Brien 2011;O'Brien 2017).…”

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Poverty Reduction through Federal and State Policy Mechanisms: Variation Over Time and Across the U.S. States

Bruch¹,

Naald²,

Gornick³

2022

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The efficacy of U.S. antipoverty policy is shaped both by its reliance on categorical sorting and by its decentralized structure. To examine the implications of these features, this study introduces a novel disaggregation of U.S. poverty reduction instruments into four mechanisms: taxes and transfers at the (centralized) federal level, and taxes and transfers at the (decentralized) state level. Using microdata from the Current Population Survey’s Annual Social and Economic Supplement, and a sequence-independent decomposition, this analysis assesses the relative effectiveness of the four mechanisms over time at the national level, between 1996 and 2016, and across the U.S. states in 2016. The study finds that absolute and relative poverty reduction is greater and has increased over time for working-age households with children compared to those without children, a difference rooted in the disparate structures of the programs that serve them. The study also finds substantial variation across the U.S. states in market and disposable income poverty, and in the poverty reduction attributable to each of the redistributive mechanisms, which highlights the importance of examining poverty and antipoverty policy subnationally. (Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality Working Paper)

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Some Factors in State TANF Participation by Immigrants: An Examination Using the Group Threat Hypothesis

Cheng

2020

Journal of Poverty

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Explaining Restrictive TANF Policies: Group Threat Hypothesis and State Economy Conditions

Cited by 5 publications

References 40 publications

A Systematic Literature Review of Welfare Sanctions and Racial Equity

A Systematic Literature Review of Welfare Sanctions and Racial Equity

Poverty Reduction through Federal and State Policy Mechanisms: Variation Over Time and Across the U.S. States

Some Factors in State TANF Participation by Immigrants: An Examination Using the Group Threat Hypothesis

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