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Maine Policy Review

Welfare reform

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The Parents As Scholars Program: A Maine Success Story, Sandra S. Butler, Luisa S. Deprez Jan 2008

The Parents As Scholars Program: A Maine Success Story, Sandra S. Butler, Luisa S. Deprez

Maine Policy Review

Federal “welfare reform” enacted in 1996 strongly discouraged states from including post-secondary education in their welfare reform programs. As Sandra Butler and Luisa Deprez discuss here, Maine persevered through its Parent as Scholars (PaS) program to make college possible for low-income parents. In this article they report on their long-term follow-up of a cohort of PaS participants, all of them women, who have benefited greatly from participation in the program. Butler and Deprez note that Maine’s PaS improves welfare recipients’ chances of moving out of poverty. The program itself remains as a model for other states.


Welfare Reform: Unresolved Issues, Deirdre Mageean Jan 1995

Welfare Reform: Unresolved Issues, Deirdre Mageean

Maine Policy Review

As this issue goes to press, the U.S. Congress debates passage of sweeping legislative reforms to welfare, shifting responsibility to the states via block grants. In this Margaret Chase Smith Essay, Deirdre Mageean highlights several unresolved welfare reform issues.


From Welfare To Work: Prospects For Transition, John Dorrer Jan 1994

From Welfare To Work: Prospects For Transition, John Dorrer

Maine Policy Review

Welfare reform is at the top of the agenda for many members of the new Congress. But, as John Dorrer observes addressing this increasingly important topic, no silver bullet for solving our welfare problems has been found. He urges welfare reformers to attempt to understand the social and economic contexts in which our welfare system operates and to move cautiously in making changes.