ECRG 3240: Part II:
Poverty in the
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Quiz 4 Discussion
Questions Quiz 5:
Welfare reform review Questions
Topics Covered in this part II of this
course:
7.
8. From Welfare to Work: has the 1995 welfare
worked
9. Fragile families: TANF/PRWORA
Review Questions
10. Homelessness, Mental Illness and Hunger
11. Urban Poverty: the rise and fall of American Cities
12. Foreign aid, globalization and U.S. poverty
Required:
Haskins, R, et.al. (2002) Welfare Reform and Beyond (WRAB).
David Ellwood, et. al, (1989) Poor Support, Basic Books ( chapters 1 & 2 )
Jencks, Christopher (1994) The Homeless,
Recommended:
Blank, R. & R. Haskins (2001) The New World of Welfare (Brookings)
Blank, Rebecca: It Takes a Nation
7. U.S. Poverty Trends and History: Links
to Part I PBS Film Discussion
Questions
Lecture Notes: *U.S. Poverty
Trends Lecture 6 per page
Census
2007 Poverty Update
*U.S.
1980s Poverty Puzzle Notes Haskins
WRAB Slides Charts: First
Measured Century
Poverty
Measurement: How U.S. Poverty is Measured? Broken
yardstick “Miss
Poverty USA”
*What is Poverty?
(Ellwood p. 82-84) *WSJ U.S.
Poverty Measurement *Post-Transfer
Child Poverty
Required: WRAB, Chapter 1*, Chapter 2*, Chapter
*7 *David Ellwood Chapter 1 &
2, Chapter
2 part 2
Video: PBS “In This Affluent
Society” *Part
1 (10 minutes) *Part
2 (12 mins) *Part 3
(20 mins)
*Part 4
(10 mins) PBS Film Notes
Henry
Hampton—Blackside films archive
Case Study 7.1: Trends
in Child Poverty Brookings Index
of Child Well Being UNICEF Child
Poverty
8. From welfare
to work: what did the 1996 Welfare reform accomplish, so far?
Lecture Notes: HHS Indicators
of Welfare Dependence 2008
War on Poverty to
War on Welfare: “tough love” (6 slides per
page)
Case Study 8.1: Welfare a safety nets during recessions? Sheila Zedlewski
The Role of Welfare during a Recession
WRAB slides: *PRWORA-TANF Intro *Results Welfare Reform
(slides b51-b72)
3 Phases of EITC 3 phases of AFDC EITC 2003 Update WRAB: EITC Outreach
Campaigns
*HHS Welfare Dependency Report to
Congress 2006 (Chapter 1: Overview pdf
version)
CEA ERP (2001) Chapt 5 pp. *187-198,*199-205 Be
Married, Be Outnumbered
Ellwood, D *Plight
of Working Poor pdf version (Brookings) CEA ERP (2000)
Chapter 5 p. 165-72
Case Study 8.2 Welfare
Reform how it happened: *Welfare
reform as an election/recession issue
David Ellwood
“Welfare reform as I knew it” Ron
Haskins (2006) Work over welfare:
Chapter 1
Case Study 8.3 Did the
1996 Welfare reform work? PBS:
Debate Lingers
CBO Study (2007) The
Resources of Low-Income Households with Children, 1991 to 2005 pdf version
Urban
Institute (2006) A Decade of Welfare Reform: facts and figures Making Marriage Work
Winship, Scott and Christopher
Jencks “How Did the Social Policy Changes of the 1990s Affect
Material Hardship among
Single Mothers? Evidence from the CPS Food Security Supplement”,
Charts showing income of single-mothers pre & post
welfare reform
From
Fang & Keane (2004) Assessing the Impact of Welfare Reform on Single Mothers,
Cowles Foundation, Yale
University – selected pages).
Case Study 8.4 Welfare reform is low
wage work really the answer”
Jennifer Mosher in Alton, NY
(NYT 4-29-01) Barbara Ehrenreich
“Nickel
and Dimed: On (not) getting by in America”
(tries
working at Walmart) Zabin et.al.
(2004) The
Hidden Public cost of low wage jobs in California
Video/audio: Jason Deparle, 'Nation's
Drive to End Welfare' NPR Fresh Air Sept. 20, 2004
DeParle, a NY Times' reporter discusses his book
American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids
and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare:
how welfare reform affected the lives of three
Case study 8.5 Health Insurance,
work and Welfare reform (WRAB #11)
Further
IPR, When
will we know if Welfare Reform Succeeds?
Wolfe, B (2000) Incentives & Challenges
of TANF, IPR, U Wisc.
Blank, R. (1996) The 1996 Welfare Reform Ellwood, Poor Support Chapt.
3 pp. 45-65 Caseloads
Haskins, Ron (2001) “Effects
of Welfare Reform on Family Income and Poverty” from
Haskins and Blank (2001) The
9. Fragile
families: work and marriage post welfare-reform: TANF/PRWORA
Review Questions)
Lecture Notes: *Welfare
Impact Slides (family structure) *WRAB Slides (results to
date)
*Horn
U.S. Promotes Marriage WSJ November 2006
*PBS
Frontline “Let’s Get Married”
*3 Phases of EITC *3 phases of AFDC Post
Transfer Poverty EITC 2003 Update
Case Study 9.1:
marriage and fragile families:
WRAB *8,
chapt 16* chapt 17* chapt
18*, WRAB Ch 21 Myths
about Fathers
Blank and Novak (2008) Helping disconnected single mothers
*Haskins & Sawhill (2003) Work and
Marriage (WRAB 28) Sawhill
(1998) Reducing Teen Pregnancy
Haskins, Ron Federal
Programs to Promote Marriage Princeton Fragile Families web page
*Tough love, less
romance NYT 6-02 Murray on what
helps Fragile Families PFF Research
Briefs
EITC
Marriage Tax and Bonuses EITC in 2006 an Update
Urban Institute cohabitation
Further
Ellwood
Two-Parent Families Chapter 4 146-65
10. Severe
Poverty: Homelessness, Mental Illness and Hunger
Core
*Jencks, The
Homeless, Chapters
*1-2, Chapt *7 Chapt
*10-11 Partial Solutions *Public
Housing Demolition
New York plan
for Homeless vouchers *Off the Streets (Debra
Bounsell) NCH Homeless-
factsheet
Case Study: 10.1 Coping with Schizophrenia *Jencks Chapter 3 *WSJ 2006
Police get taste of Schizophrenia
*Housing NY Mentally
ill (NYT April 2001) *Briarwood Queens
Shelter (Angela Mooney)
Fuller
(2001) how to treat the homeless mentally ill
Video/audio: ABC Nightline: A Troubled
Mind Intro *Part 2:
(schizophrenia) *Part 3
(supported work-community care)
11.
The Rise and Fall of Poverty in American cities:
*Required
Urban Poverty in a Global
Economy” (no
highlighting—smaller file) New York and the
Bronx
Jargowsky and Sawhill (2006) Decline
of the Underclass (as public
housing projects are torn down…)
Jargowsky,*Urban
Poverty: Stunning Progress, Hidden Problems *pdf version (big file, nicer format)
*E. Lang- I Have a Dream
WSJ (1999) *Cathy Morgan:
Brazen Bronx Guidance Counselor
Case
study 11.1: Concentrated poverty in
Child poverty in
states hit by Katrina New Orleans ask Allison poverty & segregation maps
Brookings
Tracking New Orleans recovery Fema diaspora map
Case
study 11.2: New Approaches to Housing Policy Vouchers and home ownership
WRAB #22 Housing Policy WRAB Segregation in U.S. Cities
Owning-up:
Asset-based plans to help poor families acquire homes New York plan for Homeless vouchers
James Rosenbaum Housing Mobility & Chicago’s Gautreaux Program
Hope VI Relocation (pp.385-90) Social-ties (social capital) Hope IV relocation
(pp. 415-420)
12. Has Globalization increased U.S. poverty? Lecture notes
CEA Economic Report of
the President 2001 pp.
*187-192 *204-207
Kletzer, Lori & R. Litan “Kletzer & Litan Aid to Displaced Workers ” IIE
Policy Brief
Case Study 12.1 Textiles Trade: the WTO-ATC quotas ended Jan 1, 2005:
January 2005 end for
Garment quotas affect Bangladesh and the Carolinas
*Lecture Notes *6 per page Edward Gresser, Tariffs and Single Moms pp.*1-3 (full report pdf)
Dustin Smith Tariffs on Shoes… GEP02 pp. *37-42 & 51-52 *Tariff Jumping Sweatshops
*Kristof “Let them Sweat” Oxfam’s
Watkins vs. WB’s Dollar & Kraay
Honduras EPZ -- Sean John Sweatshop Episode
pdf version The WTO,
the MFA and LDCs
Case
Study 12.2 Immigration and U.S. Poverty *New
patterns of immigration
*David Card (2007) Immigration & American Cities WSJ (2007) Jobs Americans won’t do
LA Times (2008) Crackdown on Illegal Immigrants Spurs Backlash in LA
Card (2005)Is
the new immigration really so bad? David Card (2007) Immigration
and U.S. Cities
Saiz (2005) Immigration
and American cities
Acronyms: CEA:
President’s Council of Economic Advisors ERP:
Economic Report of the President
HUD:
Housing and Urban Development Agency HUP:
Harvard University Press
IPR: Institute for
Poverty Research, Northwestern University
JEL: Journal of Economic Literature NYT: New York Times
NYTM New York Times
Magazine OUP:
Oxford University Press
WSJ: Wall Street
Journal WBPN: World Bank Poverty Network
WRAB: Welfare Reform and
Beyond (Haskins and Sawhill)
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