Job Placement of JTPA-Trained Welfare Recipients: Implications for the JOBS Program in Southern and Nonmetro States

The new Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program was instituted to provide education, training, and employment for adults receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children. This study uses job placement rates for AFDC recipients trained through Job Training Partnership Act programs to gauge the difficulty participants in the new program may have in finding jobs. The results indicate that, at minimum, there would have been 56 percent more participants in the new JOBS program than there were in Job Training Partnership Act programs had the JOBS program started in the 1986 program year. Only about 60 percent of the AFDC recipients in JTPA-training programs obtained jobs, suggesting that the larger number of JOBS participants also would have had difficulty finding jobs. Estimates of job vacancies and competition from the unemployed also indicate that JOBS participants would face stiff competition for employment, particularly in Southern and nonmetro states. Lack of training facilities and employment opportunities in many rural areas may make it necessary for AFDC recipients in those areas to move if they want to participate in the new program

Challenges of the Rural Environment in a Global Economy

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REIMBURSEMENT TIERING IMPROVES TARGETING BUT DECREASES PARTICIPATION IN THE CHILD AND ADULT CARE FOOD PROGRAM: FOOD ASSISTANCE RESEARCH BRIEF

The Family Child Care Homes Legislative Changes Study found that family child care homes in the Child and Adult Care Food Program serve fewer children but more of the children are from low-income families. Prior to the tiered reimbursement system, which started in 1997, 21 percent of the children served were from low-income families. Post tiering, that number rose to 45 percent

TIERING INCREASES CACFP SPONSORS' ADMINISTRATIVE TASKS: FOOD ASSISTANCE RESEARCH BRIEF

The two-tiered meal reimbursement system instituted in 1997 within the child care homes portion of the Child and Adult Care Food Program added new duties for sponsoring organizations. Is the reimbursement of sponsors' administrative costs adequate now that tiering has added income status determination and accounting to their duties? As the number of sponsors declines, is the CACFP readily accessible to family child care homes

EFFECTS OF CACFP REIMBURSEMENT TIERING: MAJOR FINDINGS OF THE FAMILY CHILD CARE HOMES LEGISLATIVE CHANGES STUDY

The introduction of tiered meal reimbursement rates in the family child care homes portion of the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) concentrated benefits more intensely on low-income children, as intended. Tiering added to sponsoring organizations' administrative duties, reduced the number of participating family child care homes, but did not alter the number or nutritional quality of meals offered by providers receiving the lower reimbursement rates

About that Lower Cost of Living in Nonmetro Areas

Wisconsin’s nonmetro residents get by on less income than their metro neighbors. But that’s not just because things cost less in the country. Some of the difference is due to the makeup of the population. Wisconsin's rural areas, for example, have higher concentrations of households with paid-up mortgages and households headed by an elderly person. Such households generally need less income to make ends meet