Public Affairs

The four-volume Welfare Reform Project Report results from policy research conducted by the LBJ School of Public Affairs during the 1977-78 academic year. The specific task was to aid DHR in developing and testing an independence-fostering approach to the delivery of public assistance and employment services. Volumes I and II provide background information and analyses that are essential if one is to offer substantive welfare reform alternatives. This report analyzes the development of income maintenance policy since 1930.