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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

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  • Hildebrandt, E.
  • Stevens, P.

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In the United States, the numbers of impoverishedwomenwith 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.

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  • Hildebrandt, E. & Stevens, P., 2009. "Impoverished women with children and no welfare benefits: The urgency of researching failures of the temporary assistance for needy families program," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 99(5), pages 793-801.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2006.106211_4
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.106211
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    1. Kim, Yeonwoo & Padilla, Yolanda C. & Zhang, Anao & Oh, Sehun, 2018. "Young children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors after mothers exit welfare: Comparisons with children of non-welfare mothers," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 316-323.
    2. Andrea Helting & Jinwoo Kwon & Elizabeth Mahn, 2013. "Income Packaging and Economic Disconnection: Do Sources of Support Differ from Other Low-Income Women?," Working Papers 13-61, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
    3. Dugan, Jerome & Booshehri, Layla G. & Phojanakong, Pam & Patel, Falguni & Brown, Emily & Bloom, Sandra & Chilton, Mariana, 2020. "Effects of a trauma-informed curriculum on depression, self-efficacy, economic security, and substance use among TANF participants: Evidence from the Building Health and Wealth Network Phase II," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 258(C).

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