Sanctions in the CalWORKS program / Jacob Alex Klerman, P. Jane McClure Burstain.
In 2004, the California legislature passed a bill that tightened the participation requirement for California?s welfare program, the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program (CalWORKs) and mandated a study of CalWORKs sanction policy for participant noncompliance in the welfare...
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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Santa Monica, CA :
RAND Corp.,
2008.
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| Series: | Technical report (Rand Corporation) ;
TR-540-CDSS. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | In 2004, the California legislature passed a bill that tightened the participation requirement for California?s welfare program, the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program (CalWORKs) and mandated a study of CalWORKs sanction policy for participant noncompliance in the welfare-to-work program. RAND was asked by the California Department of Social Services to carry out this study. Researchers found that county welfare caseworkers? implementation of the state?s statutory sanction policy makes the sanctions weaker in practice than might have been expected given stated polic. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 154 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-154). |
| ISBN: | 9780833046048 0833046047 9780833047854 083304785X |