This project will study the status and characteristics of persons who have left the TANF program. The project is based on two administrative databases: a comprehensive statewide collection of administrative data from health and human services programs, employment and training programs and wage records maintained by the University of Missouri, and a database of non-profit emergency assistance (homeless, food bank, etc.) in metropolitan Kansas City created by the Mid-America Assistance Council, a consortium of non-profit agencies using shared forms and intake procedures. These existing databases will be linked to each other and to a two-cohort survey of TANF leavers by the Midwest Research Institute.
Cohort 1: Welfare leavers Q4 1996 (administrative data)
Survey of 1200 stratified by KC, St. Louis, balance of state, and whether returned to welfare or not - Fall 1998
Cohort 2: Welfare leavers Q4 1997 (administrative data)
Survey of 1200 stratified by KC, St. Louis, balance of state, and whether returned to welfare or not - Fall 1999
