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- Title
State Fiscal Responses to Welfare Reform during Recessions: Lessons for the Future.
- Authors
Chernick, Howard; Reschovsky, Andrew
- Abstract
The 1996 welfare reform transformed open-ended matching grants to states to fixed block grants. This article considers whether, given the new regime, states will be able and willing to meet the need for public assistance during recessions. The accumulation of large balances of unspent federal welfare funds helped states weather the first year or so of the current recession without having to cut programs for needy families. While new fiscal rules promoted positive reform during a period of economic prosperity, they may be leaving states and their most vulnerable citizens at serious risk as the economic and fiscal slowdown continues.
- Subjects
PUBLIC welfare; LABOR union welfare funds; RECESSIONS; BUSINESS cycles; FEDERAL government; PUBLIC finance
- Publication
Public Budgeting & Finance, 2003, Vol 23, Issue 3, p3
- ISSN
0275-1100
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1540-5850.2303001