In Welfare Reform and its Long Term Consequences for America's Poor, many of the nation's leading poverty experts address the longer-term effects of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act on a host of economic and social outcomes affecting child and family well-being.

Two decades of federal and state-level demonstration projects and experiments concerning cash welfare in the United States culminated with the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, better known as welfare reform. Ten years after reform there remain a host of unanswered questions on the well-being of low-income families. In Welfare Reform and its Long Term Consequences for America's Poor, many of the nation's leading poverty experts address these and related outcomes to assess the longer-term effects of welfare reform. A diverse array of survey and administrative data are brought to bear to examine the effects of welfare reform and the concomitant expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit on the level and distribution of income, the composition of consumption, employment, public versus private health insurance coverage, health and education outcomes of children, marriage, and social service delivery.

'? this is an excellent volume with an impressive list of contributors examining the long-run impacts of welfare reform on families and children. ? Though there are plenty of facts and data for the uninitiated, the main audience for the book is the welfare and poverty researcher community - and it promises to be very well read among this group.' Industrial and Labor Relations Review