Welfare & Welfare Reform
Impact of Welfare Reform on Children and Families
- Report: "From Welfare to Worse?"
- PRAG supported hiring of organizer to conduct advocacy on behalf of community partners
Impact of Welfare Reform on Legal Immigrants
- Report: "Unraveling the Safety Net: 1997 and Welfare Reform"
- Report used by community partners to advocate for additional state funding for immigrants
- Instrumental in successfully attaching $10 million to IL welfare budget
Impact of Welfare Reform on three community areas
TANF Case Study
- Report: "The Earned Income Tax Credit: Eligible Families at the Risk of Losing Benefits"
- Appeared in the Journal of Poverty Law and Policy, Nov-Dec. 1999