Monitoring Outcomes for Los Angeles County’s Pre- and Post-CalWORKs Leavers

How Are They Faring?


Responding to the growing need to understand whether people who have left the welfare rolls since the passage of the 1996 welfare reform law are able to find and keep jobs and earn enough to lift their families out of poverty, this study compares two groups of single-parent welfare recipients — one that left the welfare rolls in 1996, and a similar group who exited welfare in 1998 —investigating their background characteristics, their employment and earnings experiences, and their material well-being.

Verma, Nandita and Richard Hendra. 2003. Monitoring Outcomes for Los Angeles County’s Pre- and Post-CalWORKs Leavers How Are They Faring?. New York: MDRC.