United Way Capital Area (UWCA) in developing a Community Agenda on health and human services within the 10-county Capital Area region. The research was designed to lead to a synthesis of existing information and stakeholder ...

Legislative reforms in the food stamp and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs in the 1990s, together with a booming economy and the Earned Income Tax Credit, led to dramatic increases in employment ...

Testimony prepared for the U. S. Senate Subcommittee on Rural Development, Hearings on Rural Health Care. Few problems are more important to rural people than adequate health care. Despite the myth that rural people ...

The Center for the Study of Human Resources (Center), a research facility of the LBJ School of Public Affairs of the University of Texas at Austin, was requested by the Texas Department of Health (TDH) to assist in planning ...

To what extent does the UI tax structure in Texas produce an equitable distribution of benefit-costs among employers? In examining this broad policy concern, the present study focuses on the following set of basic research ...

Researchers al the Center for the Study of Human Resources conducted exploratory research on return-to-work (RTW) patterns and programs for injured workers covered by workers' compensation in Texas. This study was requested ...

Statement before the Special Interim Committee to Study Workfare, The Texas Senate. Presentation covering two main topics. First, preliminary findings from research on turnover among caretakers in the Texas AFDC system. ...

The ADARE Project began in 1998 using the availability of longitudinal files of state administrative records and the combined expertise of university researchers and state Labor Market Information unit staffs to investigate ...

This paper reports results of a baseline analysis of Job Training Partnership Act-welfare coordination efforts in Texas. Following an introduction, section II provides a brief overview of the literature on welfare dynamics ...

At the direction of the Texas Legislature, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin are conducting an evaluation of efforts by Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs of the Texas Department of Commerce ...