ECRG
3240: Part II: Poverty in the
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Videos Part
II: Spotlight on Poverty
Part I, part
II and Part
III (Haskins
and Sawhill discuss their book “creating an opportunity society”)
Quiz 4 Discussion
Questions Quiz 5:
Welfare reform review Questions
Topics Covered in this
part II of this course:
7.
8. From Welfare to Work: has the
1995 welfare worked
9. Fragile families: TANF/PRWORA
Review Questions
10. Homelessness, Mental Illness
and Hunger
11. Urban Poverty: the rise and fall of
American Cities
12. Foreign aid, globalization and
U.S. poverty
Required readings:
Haskins, R. and Isabel Sawhill
(2009) Creating an opportunity
Society, Brookings, Washington DC 0815703228
Haskins, R, et.al.
(2002) Welfare Reform and Beyond (WRAB-all
available online).
David Ellwood, et. al, (1989) Poor Support, Basic Books ( chapters 1 & 2 )
Jencks, Christopher (1994) The Homeless,
Recommended:
Blank, R. & R. Haskins (2001) The New World of Welfare (Brookings)
Blank,
Rebecca: It Takes a Nation
7. U.S. Poverty Trends and
History: Links to Part
I PBS Film
Discussion Questions
Lecture
Notes:
*U.S. Poverty
Trends Lecture 6 per page
Census
2007 Poverty Update
*U.S. 1980s Poverty
Puzzle Notes Haskins WRAB Slides
Charts: First
Measured Century
Poverty Measurement: How U.S. Poverty is Measured? Broken
yardstick “Miss
Poverty USA”
*What is Poverty?
(Ellwood p. 82-84) *WSJ U.S.
Poverty Measurement *Post-Transfer
Child Poverty
Required: WRAB, Chapter 1*, Chapter 2*, Chapter
*7 *David Ellwood Chapter 1 &
2, Chapter
2 part 2
Video: PBS “In This Affluent
Society” *Part
1 (10 minutes) *Part
2 (12 mins) *Part 3
(20 mins)
*Part 4
(10 mins) PBS Film Notes
Henry
Hampton—Blackside films archive
Case
Study 7.1: Trends in Child Poverty Brookings Index
of Child Well Being UNICEF Child
Poverty
8. From welfare to work:
what did the 1996 Welfare reform accomplish, so far?
Lecture
Notes:
Opportunity Society: presentation HHS Indicators of
Welfare Dependence 2008
War on Poverty to
War on Welfare: “tough love” (6 slides
per page)
Case Study 8.1: Welfare a recession safety net? Sheila Zedlewski The
Role of Welfare during a Recession
WRAB slides: *PRWORA-TANF Intro *Results Welfare Reform
(slides b51-b72)
3 Phases of EITC 3 phases of AFDC EITC 2003 Update WRAB: EITC Outreach
Campaigns
*HHS Welfare Dependency Report to
Congress 2006 (Chapter 1: Overview pdf version)
CEA ERP
(2001) Chapt 5 pp. *187-198,*199-205 Be
Married, Be Outnumbered
Ellwood, D *Plight of
Working Poor pdf version
(Brookings) CEA ERP (2000) Chapter 5 p. 165-72
Case
Study 8.2 Welfare Reform how it happened: *Welfare
reform as an election/recession issue
David Ellwood
“Welfare reform as I knew it” Ron
Haskins (2006) Work over welfare:
Chapter 1
Case Study 8.3 Did the 1996
Welfare reform work? PBS:
Debate Lingers
CBO Study (2007) The Resources
of Low-Income Households with Children, 1991 to 2005 pdf version
Urban
Institute (2006) A Decade of Welfare Reform: facts and figures Making
Marriage Work
Winship,
Scott and Christopher Jencks “How Did the Social Policy Changes of the 1990s Affect
Material
Hardship among Single Mothers? Evidence from the CPS Food Security Supplement”,
Charts showing income of single-mothers pre & post
welfare reform
From
Fang & Keane (2004) Assessing the Impact of Welfare Reform on Single Mothers,
Cowles
Foundation, Yale University – selected pages).
Case
Study 8.4 Welfare reform is low wage work really the answer”
Jennifer Mosher in Alton, NY
(NYT 4-29-01) Barbara Ehrenreich “Nickel
and Dimed: On (not) getting by in America”
(tries
working at Walmart) Zabin et.al. (2004) The Hidden Public
cost of low wage jobs in California
Video/audio: Jason Deparle, 'Nation's Drive to End Welfare' NPR
Fresh Air Sept. 20, 2004
DeParle, a NY Times' reporter discusses his book American Dream: Three Women,
Ten Kids
and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare:
how welfare reform affected the lives of three
Case
study 8.5 Health Insurance,
work and Welfare reform (WRAB #11)
Further
IPR, When will we know if Welfare
Reform Succeeds? Wolfe, B
(2000) Incentives
& Challenges of TANF, IPR, U Wisc.
Blank,
R. (1996) The 1996
Welfare Reform Ellwood, Poor
Support Chapt. 3 pp. 45-65 Caseloads
Haskins,
Ron (2001) “Effects
of Welfare Reform on Family Income and Poverty” from
Haskins and Blank (2001) The
9. Fragile families: work and
marriage post welfare-reform: TANF/PRWORA
Review Questions)
Lecture
Notes: *Welfare
Impact Slides (family structure) *WRAB Slides (results to
date)
*Horn
U.S. Promotes Marriage WSJ November 2006
*PBS
Frontline “Let’s Get Married”
*3 Phases of EITC *3 phases of AFDC Post
Transfer Poverty EITC 2003 Update
Case
Study 9.1: marriage and fragile families:
WRAB *8,
chapt 16*
chapt 17* chapt 18*,
WRAB
Ch 21 Myths
about Fathers
Blank and Novak (2008) Helping
disconnected single mothers
*Haskins & Sawhill (2003) Work and
Marriage (WRAB 28) Sawhill (1998)
Reducing Teen Pregnancy
Haskins, Ron Federal
Programs to Promote Marriage Princeton Fragile Families web page
*Tough love, less
romance NYT 6-02 Murray on what
helps Fragile Families PFF Research
Briefs
EITC
Marriage Tax and Bonuses EITC in 2006 an Update
Urban Institute cohabitation
Further
Ellwood
Two-Parent Families Chapter 4 146-65
10. Severe Poverty:
Homelessness, Mental Illness and Hunger
Core
*Jencks, The
Homeless, Chapters
*1-2, Chapt
*7 Chapt
*10-11 Partial Solutions *Public
Housing Demolition
New York plan
for Homeless vouchers *Off the Streets (Debra
Bounsell) NCH
Homeless- factsheet
Case Study: 10.1 Coping
with Schizophrenia *Jencks Chapter 3 *WSJ 2006
Police get taste of Schizophrenia
*Housing NY Mentally
ill (NYT April 2001) *Briarwood
Queens Shelter (Angela Mooney)
Fuller
(2001) how to treat the homeless mentally ill
Video/audio: ABC Nightline: A Troubled
Mind Intro *Part 2:
(schizophrenia) *Part 3
(supported work-community care)
11. The Rise and Fall of Poverty in American cities:
*Required
Urban Poverty in a Global
Economy” (no
highlighting—smaller file) New York and the
Bronx
Jargowsky
and Sawhill (2006) Decline
of the Underclass (as public
housing projects are torn down…)
Jargowsky,*Urban
Poverty: Stunning Progress, Hidden Problems *pdf
version (big file, nicer format)
*E. Lang- I Have a Dream
WSJ (1999) *Cathy Morgan:
Brazen Bronx Guidance Counselor
Case study 11.1: Concentrated poverty in
Child poverty in states
hit by Katrina New Orleans ask
Allison poverty
& segregation maps
Brookings Tracking New
Orleans recovery Fema
diaspora map
Case study 11.2: New Approaches to Housing
Policy Vouchers and home ownership
WRAB #22 Housing Policy WRAB Segregation in U.S. Cities
Owning-up:
Asset-based plans to help poor families acquire homes New York plan for Homeless vouchers
James Rosenbaum Housing Mobility & Chicago’s Gautreaux Program
Hope VI Relocation (pp.385-90) Social-ties (social capital) Hope IV relocation
(pp. 415-420)
12. Has Globalization increased U.S. poverty? Lecture
notes
CEA Economic Report of
the President 2001 pp.
*187-192 *204-207
Kletzer, Lori & R. Litan “Kletzer & Litan Aid to Displaced Workers ” IIE
Policy Brief
Case Study 12.1 Textiles Trade: the WTO-ATC quotas ended Jan 1, 2005:
January 2005 end for
Garment quotas affect Bangladesh and the Carolinas
*Lecture Notes *6 per page Edward Gresser, Tariffs and Single Moms pp.*1-3 (full report pdf)
Dustin Smith Tariffs on Shoes… GEP02 pp. *37-42 & 51-52 *Tariff Jumping Sweatshops
*Kristof “Let them Sweat” Oxfam’s
Watkins vs. WB’s Dollar & Kraay
Honduras EPZ -- Sean John Sweatshop Episode
pdf version The WTO,
the MFA and LDCs
Case Study 12.2
Immigration and U.S. Poverty *New
patterns of immigration
*David Card (2007) Immigration & American Cities WSJ (2007) Jobs Americans won’t do
LA Times (2008) Crackdown on Illegal Immigrants Spurs Backlash in LA
Card (2005)Is
the new immigration really so bad? David Card (2007) Immigration
and U.S. Cities
Saiz (2005) Immigration
and American cities
Acronyms: CEA:
President’s Council of Economic Advisors ERP:
Economic Report of the President
HUD:
Housing and Urban Development Agency HUP:
Harvard University Press
IPR: Institute for
Poverty Research, Northwestern University
JEL: Journal of Economic
Literature NYT: New York Times
NYTM New York Times
Magazine OUP:
Oxford University Press
WSJ: Wall Street
Journal WBPN: World Bank
Poverty Network
WRAB: Welfare Reform and
Beyond (Haskins and Sawhill)
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