Craft Workers’ Experiences With and Attitudes Towards Multiskilling
Authors: Carl T. Haas, John D. Borcherding, Robert W. Glover, Richard L. Tucker, Lynn Ann Carley, and Jason A. Eickmann.
Publication Date: March 1999
Publisher: Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, The University of Texas at Austin.
Improving the Odds: Increasing the Effectiveness of Publicly Funded Training
Improving the Odds: Increasing the Effectiveness of Publicly Funded Training
Editors: Christopher T. King and Burt S. Barnow, with contributing authors: Christopher T. King, Jerome A. Olson, Leslie O. Lawson, Charles E. Trott, and John Baj.
Date: 1999
Publication Type and Availability: Book. Available from Urban Institute Press, 1-877-UIPRESS or ScienceDirect
Publisher: The Urban Institute Press. Washington, D.C.
Training Success Stories for Adults and Out-of-School Youth: A Tale of Two States
Toward Order from Chaos: State Efforts to Reform Workforce Development Systems
Toward Order from Chaos: State Efforts to Reform Workforce Development Systems
Authors: W. Norton Grubb, Norena Badway, Denise Bell, Chris King, Julie Herr, Heath Prince, Richard Kazis, Lisa Hicks and Judith Coombes Taylor.
Date: January 1999
Publication Type: Book. 155pp
Publisher: Berkeley, CA: National Center for Research in Vocational Education, University of California. (Publication MDS-1249.)
Abstract: Report reviews a 10-state study of work force development efforts in Florida, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, and Wisconsin. The book is organized in eight sections. Section 1 describes the overall visions and practices that states have created, examining the difficulties in implementing these visions in section 2. Section 3 analyzes the local-state relationships in the 10 states. Section 4 then details the roles of employers, whose participation is often seen as critical. Section 5 examines the special place of welfare “reform,” which has been particularly mandating to state efforts to create coherent work force development programs. Section 6 summarizes the different meanings of coordination and system-building, presenting a hierarchy of coordination efforts as well as highlighting issues of quality. Section 7 clarifies the contradictions in state policies, pinpointing the special difficulties that have affected many states. Section 8 outlines the implications for state and federal policy, including a note on the likely effects of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998.
Promoting Excellence in American Adolescents
Authors: Toni Falbo and Robert W. Glover
Date: 1999
Publication Type: Book. (Available from Child Welfare League of America, Inc., books@cwla.org.)
Publisher: Washington, DC: CWLA Press.
Achieving Change for Texans Evaluation: Net Impacts through December 1997
Achieving Change for Texans Evaluation: Net Impacts through December 1997
Authors: Deanna T. Schexnayder, Jerome A. Olson, Daniel G. Schroeder, Alicia Betsinger, and Shao Chee Sim
Date: December 1998
Publication Type: Report, 69pp.
Abstract: In 1995, the Texas Legislature enacted H. B. 1863, which formed the basis for Texas’ waiver from existing Federal laws governing the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. The Texas waiver, officially known as the Achieving Change for Texans (ACT) demonstration, aims to assist participants to achieve independence from welfare through an increased emphasis on employment, training, temporary assistance and support services. It includes four primary components: Time-Limited and Transitional Benefits (TL), Responsibilities, Employment and Resources (RER), Incentives to Achieve Independence (IAI), and TANF One Time Payments.
The evaluation of the ACT demonstration consists of three approaches: a process evaluation, an impact analysis, and follow-up interviews with persons who reached their time limits or who elected to receive TANF One Time payments instead of entering TANF. This report includes net impacts of the ACT demonstration from its inception in June 1996 through December 1997, and describes early impacts of the time limits and RER experiments on welfare dynamics, client self-sufficiency, participation in workforce development programs, and use of subsidized child care services.
Also Available: Executive Summary
The Value of a Comprehensive Texas Information and Referral Network
The Value of a Comprehensive Texas Information and Referral Network
Authors: Christopher T. King, Daniel P. O’Shea, and Alicia M. Betsinger
Date: December 1998
Publication Type: Report, 60pp.
Abstract: This report is a benefit/cost analysis of the proposed comprehensive Texas Health and Human Services Information & Referral Network under contract with the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC). Developing such a Network is an idea that has been a priority of the Texas Legislature since at least the early 1990s, in part as a response to the highly fragmented and duplicative environment in which information and referral for health and human services has been operating for decades.
The proposed comprehensive I&R Network builds upon the current network of Community Information Centers by developing a network of 25 Area Information Centers that would coordinate and provide services throughout Texas. A statewide automated information warehouse comprised of standardized, electronic health and human services along with central website and a 211 Single Number System for health and human services information would also be developed.
Total costs, benefits and the resulting net value have been estimated using standard methodologies for the comprehensive I&R system as a whole over a 10-year period from 2000 to 2009.
Also Available: Executive Summary (PDF)
The Dynamics of Welfare-to-Work: A Comparative Analysis of Four Urban Areas, 1990-1997
The Dynamics of Welfare-to-Work: A Comparative Analysis of Four Urban Areas, 1990-1997
Researchers: Julie L. Hotchkiss, Christopher T. King, Peter R. Mueser, and David W. Stevens.
Publication Date: November 1998, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Office of Policy and Research, Division of Research and Demonstration. 76pp.
Availability: Available from the Ray Marshall Center, contactrmcpubs@raymarshallcenter.org.
The Role of Child Support in Texas Welfare Dynamics
Researcher(s):Deanna T. Schexnayder, Jerome A. Olson, Daniel G. Schroeder and Jody McCoy
Date Published: September 1998
Publisher(s): Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, The University of Texas at Austin
Abstract: The Family Support Act of 1988 (FSA) mandated a number of policy changes to increase the employability of caretakers receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and to improve the collection of child support from noncustodial parents. Some states, including Texas, enacted state legislation to strengthen their child support enforcement procedures prior to these federal mandates. This research study measures the influence that increased child support enforcement strategies have had on welfare dynamics in Texas, which has one of the lowest AFDC grant levels in the U.S but relatively high rates of paternity establishment and child support collection.
This project investigated four primary research questions: Which factors have the greatest influence on the award and collection of child support in Texas? To what extent does child support influence AFDC exits in Texas? To what extent does child support reduce AFDC recidivism in Texas? What is the combined influence of child support and earnings of the custodial parent in removing families from poverty?
Availability:
Full Report (PDF)
Executive Summary (PDF)
Executive Summary (HTML) Printed Copies: 80pp, $8.00
Contact:rmcpubs@raymarshallcenter.org
Welfare Dynamics in Texas: An Exploratory Analysis of AFDC Turnover and Program Participation
Researchers: Christopher T. King and Deanna T. Schexnayder
Date: March 1998
Publication type: Report. Available from the Ray Marshall Center,
contactrmcpubs@raymarshallcenter.org.
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