Impact of Recession and September 11 Seen on Welfare Caseloads: Caseloads Up In Most States Between September and December 2001


 

Publication Date: March 2002

Publisher: Center for Law and Social Policy

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Research Area: Social conditions

Type: News release

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

With the cooperation of state Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) agencies, CLASP has gathered and posted recent TANF caseload data in an effort to supplement data available from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).1 CLASP has collected data through December 2001 for 49 states and the District of Columbia. (For simplicity’s sake, we refer to the District as a state in the rest of our analysis.) Please note that initial