Georgia Public Policy Foundation - A Guide to the Issues: Welfare

Excerpt: "Success in the welfare reform arena must be defined not only by how many individuals and families are removed from the welfare rolls but also by gauging how many return to welfare down the road... Learning marketable skills, through either public or private job programs, is essential to remaining off public assistance and maintaining self-sufficiency."

Maryland Public Policy Institute - Improving the Social Safety Net in the Old Line State

The Maryland Public Policy Institute looks at Maryland's successful welfare reform system, which was developed in response to the passage and signing of the 1996 federal welfare reform bill.

California Policy Review - Are California's Welfare Leavers Staying Off Public Assistance?: Welfare Recidivism and Use of Non-Cash Aid Since Welfare Reform

Excerpt: "In January 1998, California implemented the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program in response to federal welfare reform legislation. Since then, California's welfare caseload has declined by almost one-third, dropping from 727,695 families at the beginning of 1998 to 526,860 families three years later."