Welfare Reform in California: Design of the Impact Analysis Preliminary Investigations of Caseload Data

摘要

In response to the national welfare reform legislation of 1996, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (PRWORA), California passed its own welfare legislation on August 11, 1997. The legislation replaced the existing Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and Greater Avenues to Independence (GAIN) programs with the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program. The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) administers the CalWORKs program. Following an open and competitive bidding process, the CDSS awarded a contract to RAND to conduct a statewide evaluation of the CalWORKs program. This report serves as an appendix to the impact analysis report, Welfare Reform in California: Design of the Impact Analysis (MR-1266.0- CDSS; Jacob Alex Klerman, et al, 1999), and provides detailed information on the welfare caseloads in California as of September 1999.