Time’s Up: Relative Disadvantages of Long-Term and Short-Term Urban Welfare Recipients

Andrea Hetling, PhD, Kirk Tracy, PhD, and Catherine E. Born, PhD, are affiliated with the University of Maryland, School of Social Work. Address correspondence to: Andrea Hetling, PhD, Family Welfare Research and Training Group, School of Social Work, University of Maryland, 525 West Redwood Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 (E-mail: [email protected]). The authors would like to thank the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Maryland Department of Human Resources for their support of this research. The data used for the project comes from a study funded by ASPE (Reference Grant No. 01ASPE367A) and awarded to the Maryland Department of Human Resources, of which the University of Maryland, Family Welfare Research and Training Group was a subcontractor.