On September 22, a number of RSF grantees and scholars will participate in a conference, “The 20th Anniversary of Welfare Reform: Lessons and Takeaways” to be held at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. The conference will examine the effects of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, or welfare reform, on child well-being, marriage and families, work and poverty, and state policy choices.
RSF president Sheldon Danziger and current visiting scholar Hilary Hoynes (UC Berkeley) will be joined by former RSF visiting scholar Ronald Mincy (Columbia University), RSF grantee Robert Moffitt (Johns Hopkins University), RSF grantee Lawrence M. Mead (New York University), and Michael Tanner (Cato Institute) on a panel discussing how welfare reform has shaped work and poverty in the U.S. over the last two decades.
Other conference participants include former visiting scholar James P. Ziliak (University of Kentucky); Jane Waldfogel (Columbia University), former visiting scholar and co-author of the 2015 book Too Many Children Left Behind; and Janet Currie (Princeton University), a contributor to the new volume Children of the Great Recession.
This event will be webcast live from the Brookings Institution’s site. Register to attend the conference or sign up for the webcast here.
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