Supplemental Security Income: Calculating the Impact of Earnings on Benefits

The purpose of this guide is to educate New Yorkers with disabilities about the impact of earnings on Supplemental Security Income benefits

Medicaid & Work: Keeping your Medicaid While You Work

The purpose of this guide is to educate New Yorkers with disabilities who receive SSI about how they can go to work and keep their Medicaid

Ticket to Work: Choosing the Right Employment Network

The purpose of this guide is to educate New Yorkers with disabilities who have a Ticket to Work from the Social Security Administration on how to secure the services and supports to go to work by choosing an Employment Network

Role Problems of Offenders and Correctional Workers

This paper analyzes selected problems of offenders and work ers in correction as special cases of more general problems of role. The research findings, theory, and related concepts of social role are drawn upon for a better understanding of these specific problems and ways to alter them, and the emerging specialization of role theory is discussed. The role problems of offenders are considered in terms of nonlegitimate socialization, characteristics of the deviant position, role discontinuity, and role conflict. The problems of correctional workers are set forth in terms of role discontinuities, role conflict and dissensus, role ambiguity, and pressure and strain. The identification of these various role prob lems carries implications for their solutions. As one perspective and body of knowledge required to understand and control be havior in real-life situations, role theory provides an emphasis upon the web of external social determinants and thereby helps to counterbalance a pervasive tendency to view personal difficul tiles as individual psychological maladies independent of the social environment.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/67271/2/10.1177_001112876601200407.pd

The “New” Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program: Enhancing Economic Self-Sufficiency of Beneficiaries through Work Opportunities and Public/Private Partnership

Discusses the history of the Social Security Administration’s Vocational Rehabilitation and describes the intents and functioning of the Ticket to Work and work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999. This publication is based on federal Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) laws, regulations and policy. Following Sections I and II pertaining to historical context and evolution of SSA and the Ticket, information presented regarding the operations and structure of the Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program is based exclusively on the new 2008 regulations

POTENTIAL WATER USE CONFLICTS GENERATED BY IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE IN RHODE ISLAND

This study constructs a simulation model to evaluate the potential for conflict among residential and agricultural users of water in southern Rhode Island. The model estimates the profitability of irrigation and turf farms and projects the total use and the economic value of irrigation water. The results indicate that the economic value of irrigation water compares favorably with current residential water prices in the area. In addition, substantial demand for irrigation water is projected. Given current rates of growth in turf acreage and residential water use, there appears to be a significant potential for conflict, particularly given the absence of well developed institutions for allocating water among users.Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,

Assessing procedural descriptiveness: rationale and illustrative study

Journal ArticleProcedural descriptiveness refers to the extent to which the activities defined in a procedure are complete and specific. Procedures used in research or human service that are poorly described raise important questions such as whether the procedures can be replicated or generalized and, in the case of human service, whether they can be properly evaluated and made accountable. The assessment of procedural descriptiveness is an important and heretofore neglected area that should be an integral part of assessment methodology

The Propagation of Ly_ in Evolving Protoplanetary Disks

We study the role resonant scattering plays in the transport of Ly_ photons in accreting protoplanetary disk systems subject to varying degrees of dust settling. While the intrinsic stellar far-UV (FUV) spectrum of accreting T Tauri systems may already be dominated by a strong, broad Ly_ line (~80% of the FUV luminosity), we find that resonant scattering further enhances the Ly_ density in the deep molecular layers of the disk. Ly_ is scattered downward efficiently by the photodissociated atomic hydrogen layer that exists above the molecular disk. In contrast, FUV-continuum photons pass unimpeded through the photodissociation layer and (forward-)scatter inefficiently off dust grains. Using detailed, adaptive grid Monte Carlo radiative transfer simulations we show that the resulting Ly_/FUV-continuum photon density ratio is strongly stratified; FUV-continuum-dominated in the photodissociation layer and Ly_-dominated field in the molecular disk. The enhancement is greatest in the interior of the disk ( r ~ 1 AU) but is also observed in the outer disk ( r ~ 100 AU). The majority of the total disk mass is shown to be increasingly Ly_ dominated as dust settles toward the midplane.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/90763/1/0004-637X_739_2_78.pd