Child Care Subsidies, Welfare Reforms, and Lone Mothers
Author(s)
Cleveland, Gordon; Hyatt, Douglas
Abstract
Recent social assistance reforms appear to have reduced welfare rolls, but the effects on the well-being of those families and their children are less clear. Using simulations based on Canadian data, we find that some currently favored alternatives turn out to be effective in encouraging employment but punitive to families. Increased subsidization of market child care combined with income support for families appears to deliver a number of family-supportive outcomes.
