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Impoverished Women With Children and No Welfare Benefits: The Urgency of Researching Failures of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: In the United States, the numbers of impoverished women with children and no cash safety net are increasing and constitute an emerging population. Many have exhausted cash benefits from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the work-based welfare program that replaced Aid to Families With Dependent Children in 1996. We examine empirical evidence about poverty and use of welfare programs in the United States, jobs for women on welfare, the consequences of leaving welfare, health disparities disproportionate to those of the general population, and outcomes for children of needy families. It is important that public health researchers investigate the experiences of the families for whom Temporary Assistance for Needy Families has failed.

Source: American Journal of Public Health

DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2006.106211

Authors: Eugenie Hildebrandt, Patricia Stevens

Institution: University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Language: English

Topic: Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: No poverty, Reduced inequalities, Good health and well-being, Gender equality

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development