How Are Families Who Left Welfare Doing over Time? A Comparison of Two Cohorts of Welfare Leavers

[...]This study is also a “leaver study”—describing the economicwell-being of families who left welfare and using the NationalSurvey of America’s Families (NSAF), conducted by the UrbanInstitute. It adds to the body of leaver studies by presenting anational picture, providing context for the individual state andlocal study results, and giving a sense of outcomes on averageacross the fifty state “experiments” in welfare policy. An initialstudy of welfare leavers using these data was carried outrecently (Loprest 1999); that study presented results forfamilies leaving welfare between 1995 and 1997, comparedwith other low-income families with children.[...]