Gaining Ground, Moving Up: The Change in the Economic Status of Single Mothers Under Welfare Reform

Civic Report No. 35 - March, 2003 Center For Civic Innovation at the Manhattan Institute Gaining Ground, Moving Up: The Change in the Economic Status of Single Mothers Under Welfare Reform June ONeill Department of Economics and Finance and Center for the Study of Business and Government, Baruch College, CUNY and M. Anne Hill Department of Economics, Queens College, CUNY and Center for the Study of Business and Government, Baruch College, CUNY The reports main findings are as follows: Single Mothers Poverty Levels Reached Record Lows Post-Welfare Reform Between the passage of welfare reform (1996) and 2001a recession year the . . .