Welfare Reform Clearinghouses
Research Forum on Children, Families, and the New Federalism, National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia School of Public Health.
www.researchforum.org
A national database of welfare reform research project descriptions and publications.


Welfare Information Network
www.financeprojectinfo.org/win/
Provides Issue Notes that include comprehensive background information on virtually every topic related to welfare reform, includes a special page of TANF reauthorization information, provides links to nearly every welfare reform-related web site in existence.

Multi-State Research Projects (back to top)
Assessing the New Federalism, The Urban Institute
newfederalism.urban.org, Urban Institute
Includes a state welfare information database, TANF income calculator, National Survey of America's Families results, and numerous publications on all areas of welfare reform.

MDRC
www.mdrc.org
Designs, implements, and evaluates social policy demonstrations and experiments targeted at low-income people. Many publications available at the web site.

Rockefeller Institute of Government
www.rockinst.org
An inventory of implementation studies underway at the Rockefeller Institute in the broad area of human service reforms.

Policy and Research Organizations (back to top)
American Enterprise Institute
www.aei.org
Includes publications about welfare reform, particularly related to teen and out-of-wedlock childbearing.

CATO Institute
www.cato.org
Publishes books and papers related to market-based welfare reforms.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
www.cbpp.org
Includes many reports and policy briefs on issues affecting low-income people, particularly about how families and children have fared since welfare reform, and on the effectiveness of government anti-poverty policies.

Center for Law and Social Policy
www.clasp.org
Publishes reports and policy briefs on issues affecting low-income people, including many analyses of changes in policy since the initiation of welfare reform.

Metropolitan Policy Program
www.brookings.edu/metro/metro.htm
Seeks to shape a new generation of urban policies that will help build strong neighborhoods, cities, and metropolitan regions. Aims to help develop integrated approaches and practical solutions to the challenges confronting these communities.

Child Trends
www.childtrends.org
Conducts research specifically related to children and welfare reform.

The Heritage Foundation
www.heritage.org
Papers on welfare reform, marriage and illegitimacy, and poverty and inequality.

Institute for Research on Poverty
www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/
National, university-based center for research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States, based in Wisconsin.

Joint Center for Poverty Research, Northwestern University, University of Chicago
www.jcpr.org
Conducts research on many issues related to poverty and holds many conferences related to their research. Publishes policy briefs, working papers, and newsletters on all topics related to welfare reform.

Kids Count
www.aecf.org/kidscount/index.htm
The annual KIDS COUNT Data Book, available on-line, uses the best available data to measure the educational, social, economic, and physical well-being of children nationwide and by state.

Mathematica Policy Research
www.mathematica-mpr.com
Has published numerous reports on policies related to low-income people, many of them evaluations of welfare demonstration programs.

National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
www.teenpregnancy.org
The goal of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy is to reduce the rate of teen pregnancy by one-third between 2006 and 2015.

National Center for Children in Poverty
www.nccp.org
A national research center at Columbia University that seeks to identify and promote strategies that prevent child poverty in the United States and that improve the lives of low-income children and their families.

The Future of Children
www.futureofchildren.org
The Future of Children is published twice annually by the Brookings Center on Children and Families and Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School. The primary purpose of The Future of Children is to disseminate timely information on major issues related to children's well-being.

Partnership for America's Economic Success
www.partnershipforsuccess.org
The Partnership for America's Economic Success was created by a group of funders, business leaders, economists, policy experts and advocates to lay the groundwork for making the success of every child the nation's top economic priority.

State Policy Documentation Project, joint project of CLASP and CBPP
www.spdp.org
Explains each state's policy decisions related to TANF and includes comparison charts of rules in the 50 states.

Urban Institute
www.urban.org
In addition to sponsoring the Assessing the New Federalism project, the Urban Institute conducts research related to families and children.

Welfare Reform Academy, University of Maryland
www.welfareacademy.org
Provides information about welfare reform, especially related to child care and childbearing.

Inter-Governmental Organizations (back to top)
American Public Human Services Organization
www.aphsa.org
Represents human service individuals and agencies nationwide and conducts research on public policies related to human service.

National Association of Counties
www.naco.org
NACo's website provides website links to organizations and federal, state and county government agencies involved in implementing welfare reform.

National Conference of State Legislatures
www.ncsl.org
Information about several state issues related to welfare reform and news about state responses and progress to date.

National Congress of American Indians
www.ncai.org/Welfare_Reform_Employment_Trai.46.0.html
Describes how the welfare reform law affects Native Americans and current efforts to implement welfare reform in Native American communities.

National Governors' Association
www.nga.org
Information center for state policies, best practices, and priorities related to welfare reform.

US Conference of Mayors
www.mayors.org
Provides news updates on how federal decisions will affect cities, includes a database of city best practices related to welfare reform and workforce development.

Federal Government Agencies (back to top)
Administration for Children and Families, US Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS)
www.acf.dhhs.gov
Responsible for federal programs that promote the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals, and communities, including TANF.

Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, US Dept. of Health and Human Services
www.aspe.hhs.gov
Contains information on US poverty guidelines, government-funded studies of welfare reform, and national child indicators.

US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
www.huduser.org/publications/pubasst/welfare/summary.html
Describes the role HUD plays in welfare reform.

US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration www.doleta.gov/
Describes and evaluates the Welfare-to-Work program to date.
Documents (back to top)

2004 Green Book, Committee on Ways and Means, US House of Representatives
waysandmeans.house.gov/Documents.asp?section=813
Contains description of Federal programs under the jurisdiction of the Ways and Means Committee, including TANF, child support, child care, nutrition programs and others. Appendices contain useful data related to these programs.

Helping the Americans Left Behind
www.brookings.org/comm/transcripts/20000517.htm
Transcript and video of a National Issues Forum held at Brookings that focuses on Americans who have not benefited as greatly from the current state of economic prosperity.

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 Summary from HHS
www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/exsumcl.htm
Provides a summary of this Act, signed into law in 1996, which established the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program.

Regulations from HHS (Summaries)
www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/ofa/exsumcl.htm

Regulations for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program
www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/ofa/finalru.htm

Text of Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act as enacted in 1996
thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c104:H.R.3734.ENR:
Text of the 1996 law.



Foundations (Project Support) (back to top)
The Center on Children and Families is being funded by a consortium of foundations including the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Foundation for Child Development, the Joyce Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation
www.aecf.org

The Ford Foundation
www.fordfound.org

Foundation for Child Development
www.fcd-us.org/

The Joyce Foundation
www.joycefdn.org

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
www.macfound.org/index.htm

The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
www.mott.org

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
www.packard.org

The Smith Richardson Foundation
www.srf.org

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation
www.hjweinbergfoundation.org