Those Left Behind: Enduring Challenges Facing Welfare Applicants

May, 2006 Those Left Behind: Enduring Challenges Facing Welfare Applicants The Milwaukee Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) applicant study followed 1,075 family heads who applied for assistance between March and August 1999. The sample represents applicants to each of the Wisconsin Works (W-2) agency sites in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. The study tracked outcomes from a representative sample of the help-seeking population that were eligible for TANF over a period of six months. The focus of the study was to discover characteristics and outcomes of those families that remained on TANF without over-representing the experiences of . . .