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Since Congress enacted welfare reform in 1996, states have had more flexibility in designing their own welfare programs. With this flexibility has come an increased interest in accountability at the state level. Like other states, California is frequently evaluated according to declines in its welfare recipiency rate. Although California's caseload rate fell 43 percent between 1996 and 2000, that decline lags the national average. Even compared to other large, high-immigrant states, California has not done well by this standard. Among the five largest states in the nation, only New York had a smaller decline in recipiency rates, while Texas, Florida, and Illinois all performed above the national average.
What accounts for these differences in caseload declines, especially among large, high-immigrant states? This study examines the variation in recipiency rates among the five largest states both before and after the welfare reforms of 1996. The authors find that economic and demographic factors account for most of the variation in welfare recipiency rates before 1996, while policy decisions at the state level were the most important factor between 1996 and 2000. California's low sanctions and high benefits have resulted in a below-average caseload decline. However, caseload reduction was not the primary consideration in designing California's welfare policies, and the authors therefore conclude that it should not be the final yardstick for evaluating those policies
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Does California's Welfare Policy Explain the Slower Decline of Its Caseload
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