http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/wprp/rss Recent eScholarship items from Welfare Policy Research Project Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:47:30 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9rv6p0rt <p>Detailed research findings from a telephone survey conducted between June 2004 and August 2005 of 1,797 recipients in six focus counties who were within six months of reaching the sixty-month time limit according to county administrative records. The survey explores the demographic characteristics of the recipients as well as family employment and employment history, barriers to employment, material hardship, and knowledge of the time-limit policy and the amount of time on aid still available to them.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9rv6p0rt Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000 London, Rebecca A. Mauldon, Jane G. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/37g3510z <p>An executive summary aimed at California policymakers describing CalWORKs families as they approach the time limit. Analysis of findings from a telephone survey conducted between June 2004 and August 2005 of 1,797 recipients in six focus counties who were within six months of reaching the sixty-month time limit according to county administrative records. The survey explores the demographic characteristics of the recipients as well as family employment and employment history, barriers to employment, material hardship, and knowledge of the time-limit policy and the amount of time on aid still available to them.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/37g3510z Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000 London, Rebecca A. Mauldon, Jane G. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9j11p1mr <p>An analysis of sanctioned and non-sanctioned cases relying on administrative data from four counties (Alameda, Fresno, Kern and San Diego). This authors' report examines sanction rates; describes and compares the characteristics of sanctioned and non-sanctioned households; examines how sanctions affected recipients’ employment, earnings, and reliance on welfare; and models the likelihood that households with certain characteristics will be sanctioned within their first year of CalWORKs participation.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9j11p1mr Fri, 5 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Ong, Paul M. Houston, Douglas https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3kt8n3s7 <p>A policy brief on the early implementation of the welfare time limit in California that includes analysis of statewide administrative data, onsite interviews with State officials and staff at six focus counties (Alameda, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Sacramento, and Tulare), and a survey of all counties.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3kt8n3s7 Fri, 5 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Crow, Sarah E. Anderson, Jacquelyn https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9k03b016 <p>Full report of a study that focused on the characteristics of CalWORKs participants in San Joaquin County, whether they face significant barriers to employment, and how, if at all, these barriers affect their employment, earnings, and reliance on CalWORKs.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9k03b016 Thu, 4 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Speiglman, Richard Norris, Jean C. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8m3197z4 <p>A policy brief of a study focused on the characteristics of CalWORKs participants in San Joaquin County, whether they face significant barriers to employment, and how, if at all, these barriers affect their employment, earnings, and reliance on CalWORKs.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8m3197z4 Thu, 4 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Speiglman, Richard Norris, Jean C. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/89b5t35v <p>A policy brief providing an executive summary of a process analysis drawn from site visits to four focus counties (Alameda, Fresno, Kern and San Diego) that examines how the counties implemented sanctions under CalWORKs, including how the counties conveyed sanction policies to recipients, how well recipients understood sanctions, recipients’ experiences with sanction and compliance processes, and how counties attempted to prevent or “cure” sanctions.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/89b5t35v Thu, 4 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Bagdasaryan, Sofya Matthias, Ruth Ong, Paul Houston, Douglas https://escholarship.org/uc/item/87n363tb <p>The executive summary of an analysis of sanctioned and non-sanctioned cases that relies on administrative data from four counties (Alameda, Fresno, Kern and San Diego). It examines sanction rates; describes and compares the characteristics of sanctioned and non-sanctioned households; examines how sanctions affected recipients’ employment, earnings, and reliance on welfare; and models the likelihood that households with certain characteristics will be sanctioned within their first year of CalWORKs participation.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/87n363tb Thu, 4 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Ong, Paul M. Houston, Douglas https://escholarship.org/uc/item/82k0h7kd <p>An executive summary of a detailed report that identifies the range of post employment services provided to welfare recipients by California's 58 counties.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/82k0h7kd Thu, 4 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Anderson, Jacquelyn Miller, Jennifer Bos, Johannes M. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4xr9j64p <p>Detailed research findings of a study that identifies the range of post employment services provided to welfare recipients by California's 58 counties.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4xr9j64p Thu, 4 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Anderson, Jacquelyn Miller, Jennifer Bos, Johannes M. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1hw4p30q <p>Detailed research findings of a process analysis drawn from site visits to four focus counties (Alameda, Fresno, Kern and San Diego) that examines how the counties implemented sanctions under CalWORKs, including how the counties conveyed sanction policies to recipients, how well recipients understood sanctions, recipients’ experiences with sanction and compliance processes, and how counties attempted to prevent or “cure” sanctions.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1hw4p30q Thu, 4 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Bagdasaryan, Sofya Matthias, Ruth Ong, Paul Houston, Douglas https://escholarship.org/uc/item/686862x9 <p>Detailed research findings that provide an overview of California's immigrant families in the 1990s, with a special focus on changes in patterns of participation in public assistance programs.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/686862x9 Wed, 3 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Brady, Henry E. Clune, Michael S. Elms, Laurel Mathur, Anita K. Nayeri, Kamran Stiles, Jon Weinstein, Jeffrey W. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/29s5j48s <p>This policy brief is an executive summary of a report that provides an overview of California's immigrant families in the 1990s, with a special focus on changes in patterns of participation in public assistance programs.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/29s5j48s Wed, 3 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Brady, Henry E. Clune, Michael S. Nayeri, Kamran Stiles, Jon Elms, Laurel Mathur, Anita K. Weinstein, Jeffrey W. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0rr619d4 <p>The first in a series of reports resulting from a statewide study with six focus counties aimed at fully understanding the effects of the 60-month CalWORKs time limit. It describes the state’s and counties’ early efforts to implement CalWORKs timelimit policies.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0rr619d4 Thu, 6 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Crow, Sarah E Anderson, Jacquelyn Abe, Yasuyo Bos, Johannes M. Cowan, Sarah K. Edel, Sara Kuiper, Jennifer Mauldon, Jane Gilbert Tanguay, Deana Goldsmith