Making activation for young welfare recipients mandatory

Science misapplied: mandatory addiction screening and treatment for welfare recipients in Ontario.

Welfare reform and substance abuse treatment for welfare recipients.

Studies presented in this paper were supported by funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (grant 5–RO1–DA12256), the Administration for Children and Families, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The 1996 welfare reform law replaced the existing entitlement to cash welfare with a transitional program of temporary aid that has employment as its primary goal. Among the key provisions...

Medi-Cal after welfare reform: enrollment among former welfare recipients.

Recent studies have concluded that Medicaid enrollment fell over the past several years, both nationally and in California, for people leaving cash welfare. This ostensible decline occurred despite expansions to Medicaid eligibility and increases in outreach efforts designed to encourage people to continue using Medicaid after leaving welfare. Some of the ostensible decline in enrollment may ha...

Welfare recipients' job skills and employment prospects.

The welfare reform goal of moving mothers who rely on welfare into private-sector employment cannot be achieved only by changes in public policy. Employment rates reflect the job qualifications of individuals, obstacles to work outside the home, the attractiveness of available jobs, and the capacity of the labor market to absorb new workers at particular skill levels. This article examines how ...

Making internal amplification control mandatory for diagnostic PCR.

The explosive increase since the beginning of 1990s in the number of publications reporting PCR-based methods for detection or molecular typing of food-borne pathogens has attracted the attention of end user laboratories. However, the well-recognized difficulties in reproducing published tests due to variation in the performance of PCR thermal cyclers (7) and in efficiencies of different DNA po...