Alison Garnham

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Contents

Executive summary

Section 1
The Clinton reforms
Lessons for the UK
Americal welfare benefits
The 1996 reforms: the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act Key changes
The broader context in which TANF was implemented
US poverty measurement

Section 2
What are the key US findings?

Setion 3
The UK context
What are the key UK findings?

Notes

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© Child Poverty Action Group 2007

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Acknowledgements

Enormous thanks are due to Mark Greenberg of the Centre for American Progress, Washington DC, for his helpful advice and kind permission to use his material. Thanks also to Tim Smeeding for allowing me to reproduce his data in Figure 2. Credit is also due to Kate Bell of One Parent Families for her helpful comments and excellent additional material. Thanks too to Gabrielle Preston for her work on the Executive Summary.

About the author

Alison Garnham is joint Chief Executive of the Daycare Trust, taking up her position in June 2006. Prior to this, for nine years she was the Director of Policy and Research at One Parent Families. She worked for many years as a welfare rights adviser and for a number of women’s organisations before, in 1989, joining Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), where she co-authored a number of publications about child support. She has subsequently written about lone parenthood and child poverty, including an edition of Poverty: the facts, published by CPAG. Before joining One Parent Families she was Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of North London (now London Metropolitan University) where she has also been an Honorary Research Fellow. She is a member of the Social Security Advisory Committee.

She is writing in a personal capacity.