The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, created in 1996, requires most welfare recipients to work and imposes time limits on welfare benefits.
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Next Generation of Enhanced Employment Strategies Project: Evaluation Design Report
This report describes the designs of the descriptive, cost, and impact studies of the four programs included in the NextGen Project. It describes how programs were identified and selected, and the research questions, the study design, the data collection strategy, and the analytic approach for each.
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