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Unemployed Parents: Initial Efforts to Expand State Assistance

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Jan. 14, 1992
Report No. PEMD-92-11
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Summary:

The Family Support Act of 1988 requires that cash assistance provided under the Unemployed Parent section of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program be made available in every state beginning in October 1990. Before then, 18 states never had such a program, and several others had discontinued it. This report addresses the following five questions: (1) Is the Unemployed Parent program in place nationwide as required by law and to what extent? (2) What options did states select in implementing their program? (3) To what sorts of Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) training and employment services will Unemployed Parent recipients have access? (4) How do states plan to structure and deliver the JOBS program in general? (5) What kinds of performance and outcome measures will be available to assess Unemployed Parent programs?

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