2004
DOI: 10.17848/9781417550012
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Leaving Welfare: Employment and Well-Being of Families that Left Welfare in the Post-Entitlement Era

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“…Few studies have examined its impacts on another type of hardship: housing instability. Housing instability, which includes missing rent or mortgage payments, doubling-up or overcrowding, moving more than once per year, having been evicted, or being homeless, is highly prevalent among low-income households, households experiencing economic hardship, and those who receive public assistance (Acs and Loprest 2004;Burgard et al 2012;Phinney et al 2007;Van Order and Zorn 2002;Wood and Rangarajan 2005). Housing instability has an association with several negative long-term outcomes in adults including poor physical and mental health (Burgard et al 2012;Park et al 2011;Ross and Squires 2011;Suglia et al 2011).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Few studies have examined its impacts on another type of hardship: housing instability. Housing instability, which includes missing rent or mortgage payments, doubling-up or overcrowding, moving more than once per year, having been evicted, or being homeless, is highly prevalent among low-income households, households experiencing economic hardship, and those who receive public assistance (Acs and Loprest 2004;Burgard et al 2012;Phinney et al 2007;Van Order and Zorn 2002;Wood and Rangarajan 2005). Housing instability has an association with several negative long-term outcomes in adults including poor physical and mental health (Burgard et al 2012;Park et al 2011;Ross and Squires 2011;Suglia et al 2011).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…About 60% of leavers do work, and their earnings combined with cash and nearcash transfers and tax credits are higher than they would have been if still relying on welfare. Nevertheless the bulk of these leavers (85%) still have incomes below twice the federal poverty line (Acs and Loprest, 2004). The final group, families that would have entered welfare under AFDC rules but have been formally or informally diverted from welfare since reform, is particularly hard to capture.…”
Section: Effects On Income Of Low-income Familiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Studies of welfare leavers indicate that working leavers are, for better or worse, entrenched in the low-wage labor market. On average, employed leavers work full time and their median earnings are comfortably above the minimum wage (Acs and Loprest 2004). Access to employersponsored benefits varies across locations and studies, but even during the 1990s, fewer than half of all working leavers had health insurance coverage from their employers or paid sick leave.…”
Section: Status and Trends Among Welfare Familiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While debate continues over the level of federal child care funding, relatively low percentages of working welfare leavers reported using child care subsidies. At the same time, unemployed leavers frequently cited child care as a reason for why they are not working (Acs and Loprest 2004).…”
Section: Status and Trends Among Welfare Familiesmentioning
confidence: 99%