Welfare Reform: PA gets poor grades
The Heartland Institute has a new report, Welfare Reform after Ten Years: A State-by-State Analysis (for PDF version click here) ranking the states both on welfare outcomes - through 2006 - and welfare reform policies. Pennsylvania ranks near the bottom or in the middle on most measures.
- Overall: 41st (F)
- Anti-Poverty Success: 38th (D-)
- Decline in TANF participants: 57.6% (35th)
- Change in Poverty Rate 0.6% increase (31st)
- TANF Workforce Participation: 26.1% (41st)
- Change in Unemployment Rate: -0.4% (21st)
- Change in Teenage Birth Rate: -7.6* (38th)
- Reform Policies: 39th (D-)
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