------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date sent: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 12:44:20 -0500 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (S. Lerner) To: FUTUREWORK - Moderated <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: FW-L Welfare Information re: U.S. (fwd) Originally to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 13:27:45 -0500 >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >From: Arthur Wilke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: PROGRESSIVE SOCIOLOGISTS NETWORK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Welfare Information re: U.S. >Mime-Version: 1.0 >X-To: PROGRESSIVE SOCIOLOGISTS NETWORK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >A Special Issue of Focus (Vol 18, No. 1 - Institute for Research on Poverty >- Univ. of Wis.-Madison - http:///www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/) outlines what has >been occurring regarding welfare under the emerging new federalism. >Research projects, analyses of certain impacts, etc. are identified and >discussed. The issue and various citations are good resource materials. > >The opportunities for developing some tactics seem to be abundant >given that there will be such pluralism in the various welfare systems. >Block grants will have differential effects. For example, states have >variously mixed their participation in the Food Stamp, Medicaid and >AFDC programs. Chernick and Reschovsky write: "For the typical state, >then, the 'price' of an additional dollar of benefits is zero for food stamps, >40 cents for Medicaid, and 57 cents for AFDC." Some states, for example >those in the South, have often opted for food stamps and Medicaid. >The differential benefits and how the poverty establishments operate >seems to be an exciting arena in which there is already some critical >work. > >Robert Haveman ("From Welfare to Work") points to a number of issues >that will need to be addressed as the dynamics of new welfare >policies continue. There are a number of articles on Wisconsin's >(expensive) experiments. > >If proposed federal legislation is signed into law, there will be >opportunities to get a closer look at how various interests have >sustained a climate of poverty since there will be conflicts. >One small aspect of this are the schools and agencies and >poor parents that together work to get disability payments >(so called "stupid checks") for children. How will the new >disabilities be configured? > >The Monday, August 5, 1996, issue of The Wall Street Journal has >an article that can be used by progressives. Entitled, "Welfare >Law's Work Rules Worry States: Finding Jobs for So Many People >May not be Possible," the article is nice since it is the voice of >the establishment. In their own words...... > > > >Arthur Wilke >Sociology - Auburn University >[EMAIL PROTECTED] *---------------------------*----------------------------------------* * James Craven * "All things have inner meaning and * * Dept of Economics * form and power." (Hopi) * * Clark College * "In this world the unseen has power." * * 1800 E. McLoughlin Blvd. * (Apache * * Vancouver, Wa. 98663 * "The philosophers have only interpreted* * (360) 992-2283 * the world in various ways; the point * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * however, is to change it."(Karl Marx) * * * * * MY EMPLOYER HAS NO ASSOCIATION WITH MY PRIVATE/PROTECTED OPINION *
