Number: RL31321
Title: The Economic Status of Noncustodial Fathers of Children on Welfare
Authors: Linda Levine, Domestic Social Policy Division 
Abstract: There is widespread agreement that the fortuitous coincidence of a robust economy and the imposition of a work requirement on custodial parents in TANF families brought about a substantial reduction in the program's caseload. Whether the jobs that former TANF recipients typically have obtained can make their families totally self-sufficient and whether they will be able to keep those jobs during a period of slowed economic growth is less universally agreed upon
Pages: 16
Date: Updated March 7, 2002