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Family Support Caseloads--Determinants Of Kentucky's Division Of Family Support Personnel Allocation, David Bachert
Family Support Caseloads--Determinants Of Kentucky's Division Of Family Support Personnel Allocation, David Bachert
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This paper is an examination of the determinants of Family Support employee allocation. Specifically, related to Kentucky, the goal of this research is to determine if public assistance caseloads are equitable across nine geographic regions. A review of relevant literature provides a larger context to this topic. Literature primarily suggests three mechanisms by which Family Support resources might be allocated: legal regulations, postcode lottery, and Tiebout migration.
Supported by literature the larger context for this paper leads to the examination of five independent variables: (1) percent of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients \, (2) total population, (3) percent of the …