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Gaining Ground in Illinois - Welfare Reform and Person-Centered Policy Analysis (Paperback)
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Gaining Ground in Illinois - Welfare Reform and Person-Centered Policy Analysis (Paperback)
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In 1997, then state Senator Barack Obama sponsored legislation in
the Illinois General Assembly to study the newly passed federal
welfare reform and how it would affect the citizens of Illinois. He
believed that a sound piece of research assessing how the new law
affected the poor of Illinois would give lawmakers a way to come
together and improve the law and the lives of the poor. In the
highly charged times of the 1990s when ideology often trumped
pragmatism, the assumptions and values of policy makers often
shaped their work much to the detriment of those affected by the
policies. Dan A. Lewis was selected to direct the study and report
back to the legislature. For four years, Lewis and his team of
researchers tracked a random group of 1,000 people who were on
welfare when the new law went into effect. He reported on their
income, their general well being, and the lives of their children
under the new system. Gaining Ground in Illinois illuminates the
findings of the study and offers advice for future policy makers.
Lewis uses quantitative and qualitative data to draw clear
conclusions but also to make the real experiences of the people he
studied as vivid as possible. The reports allowed the legislature
to debate the issue with the facts at hand. Lewis seeks a middle
ground to give us a picture of how welfare reform affected the poor
and to give policy makers some direction in how to improve the
lives of the poor moving forward. As the current economic crisis
leads to more discussion of public aid and entitlements, Lewis'
work offers a starting point for the discussion about the welfare
of the people of Illinois. This study will be of interest to
sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, and policy makers who
are concerned with the welfare of the poor and are looking for new
directions in social policy that move beyond the tired debates of
the last generation.
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