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Immigration and the Evolving American Welfare State: Examining Policies in the U.S. States
Rodney E. Hero,Robert R. Preuhs +1 more
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This article examined the relationship between inclusion and benefit levels by analyzing state policies related to the welfare reforms of 1996 which allowed states to decide if recent immigrants would be included in welfare benefits, and subsequently the extent to which this decision affected overall benefit levels offered by states under TANF.Abstract:
The inclusion of racial/ethnic minorities is often considered an important factor leading to a relatively limited American welfare system. However, given the federal nature of welfare eligibility rules and the states' role in determining benefit levels, few studies explicitly link questions of inclusion and benefit levels when explaining the evolution of American welfare policy. This study examines the relationship between inclusion and benefit levels by analyzing state policies related to the welfare reforms of 1996 which allowed states to decide if recent immigrants would be included in welfare benefits, and subsequently the extent to which this decision affected overall benefit levels offered by states under TANF. The results suggest that states' decisions regarding inclusion subsequently affect benefit levels, with the direction of these relationships most closely reflecting the erosion model's prediction of broader eligibility associated with lower benefit levels.read more
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Attitudes toward Highly Skilled and Low-skilled Immigration: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
TL;DR: This article found that both low-skilled and highly skilled immigrants strongly prefer highly-skilled immigrants over low skilled immigrants, and this preference is not decreasing in natives' skill levels, and that rich and poor natives are equally opposed to low skilled immigration in general.
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Immigration, Latinos, and White Partisan Politics: The New Democratic Defection
TL;DR: This paper found that whites with more anti-immigrant views or negative views of Latinos are less apt to identify as Democrats and less likely to favor Democratic candidates than those with positive views of immigrants.
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From Backwaters to Major Policymakers: Policy Polarization in the States, 1970–2014
TL;DR: The authors investigated the relationship between party control of state government and policy outcomes and found that party control increasingly predicts socioeconomic outcomes in the polarized area of health care, but not in the non-polarized area of criminal justice.
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Anti-immigrant Anxieties in State Policy The Great Recession and Punitive Immigration Policy in the American States, 2005–2012
TL;DR: The Great Recession of late 2007 through 2009 had profound negative economic impacts on the U.S. states, with 49 states experiencing revenue decreases in their 2009 budgets representing more than $1 billion.
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