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Unemployment, Welfare, and Social Security Disability/SSI Benefits: How They Affect One Another
(2006-12-01)This article will help you understand the requirements of Unemployment (UI),Welfare(TANF/GA), and Social Security Disability (SSI/SSDI). Finding the program that is right for you will save time and help you get the most ... -
Promising Practices: Reaching Out To The Vietnamese Community of Massachusetts
(2006-06-28)The hall marks of respect and quiet listening are continual themes running through outreach efforts to the Vietnamese community of Massachusetts. Particularly when dealing with the elderly, the notion of respect is critical ... -
Promising Practices: Reaching Out To The African-American Community In Illinois
(2006-06-28)Building trust and allowing for the development of a level of comfort has allowed Equip for Equality to successfully reach out to the African-American community in Chicago and rural Illinois. While the Illinois African-American ... -
Promising Practices: Reaching Out to Rhode Island's Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community
(2006-06-28)Protection and Advocacy (PABSS) staff are responsible for providing legal services to social security recipients who are facing barriers in their efforts to return to work. Benefits Specialists are responsible for reaching ... -
Material Hardship, Poverty, and Disability among Working-Age Adults
(2006-04-01)We use longitudinal data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) spanning the 1996 to 1999 period to estimate the prevalence of several types of material hardships among working-age people with and without ... -
An Inventory of Disability Information for the Population Living in Institutions
(2006-03-01)The population living in institutions is excluded from most major national surveys. We evaluate the implications of this exclusion for disability statistics and research by compiling and examining existing disability ... -
Removing Barriers to Survey Participation for Persons with Disabilities
(2006-01-01)The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) has recently defined a new paradigm of disability (NIDRR 2000). Under the new paradigm, disability is a deficit in the person-community relationships ... -
A Difficult Cycle: The effect of labor market changes on the employment and program participation of people with disabilities
(2005-10-01)This paper examines the dynamics behind the employment and program participation trends of workers with disabilities. We find strong evidence that labor market declines induce male workers with disabilities to exit employment ... -
Rising Poverty in the Midst of Plenty: The Case of Working-Age People with Disabilities
(2005-01-01)The United States Bureau of the Census creates official poverty rates for most economically vulnerable populations, but not for working-age people with disabilities. We create a comparable poverty measure for working-age ... -
The Effects of Welfare Reform on Young Women With Disabilities
(2005-01-01)This paper uses the Current Population Survey (CPS) data to show that changes in family policy implemented in the 1990s led to a substantial increase in the number of young women who report work limitations. These changes ...
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