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Location and the Low-Income Experience: Analyses of Program Dynamics in the Iowa Family Investment Program

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  • Jensen, Helen H.
  • Keng, Shao-Hsun
  • Garasky, Steven

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In 1993, the state of Iowa, through waivers, implemented reforms creating the Family Investment Program (FIP), a program similar to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) created under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA). The goals of FIP (helping program recipients leave poverty and become self-supporting) parallel the intent of TANF and PRWORA (Holcomb et al. 1998; Iowa Department of Human Services 1996). FIP merged and coordinated several existing programs and tied support for job training, education, child care, and transportation more directly to income transfers. Iowa has had to change FIP very little to meet current federal guidelines. Thus, Iowa provides over seven years of experience under a program with rules and incentives similar to those instituted nationwide in 1996.

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  • Jensen, Helen H. & Keng, Shao-Hsun & Garasky, Steven, 2002. "Location and the Low-Income Experience: Analyses of Program Dynamics in the Iowa Family Investment Program," ISU General Staff Papers 200201010800001306, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
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    2. Wessman, Cory Robert, 2001. "The impact of human capital and income supports in alleviating material hardships among low-income households," ISU General Staff Papers 2001010108000018188, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
    3. Cynthia Needles Fletcher & Jan L. Flora & Barbara J. Gaddis & Mary Winter & Jacquelyn S. Litt, 2000. "Small Towns and Welfare Reform: Iowa Case Studies and Families and Communities," JCPR Working Papers 190, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research.
    4. Pan, Suwen & Fuller, Wayne A. & Jensen, Helen H., 2001. "Welfare Reform and Labor Participation: Are There Urban and Rural Differences?," 2001 Annual meeting, August 5-8, Chicago, IL 20665, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).

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