We need to see the trend of rising caseloads reversed, so that social workers have the time necessary to build strong relationships, manage complex situations, and develop their skills, rather than suffering stress and burnout".
According to a new study by the Brookings Institution*, it is mostly people who live in cities.The study analyses welfare caseloads in the 89 counties that contain America's 100 largest cities. Between 1994 and 1999, caseloads fell by 52% for the nation as a whole but only 41% in urban areas.
And in August 1996, having promised during his 1992 presidential campaign to "end welfare as we know it", Bill Clinton signed a law that required the states to push welfare recipients into jobs an approach popularly known as "workfare".The law also gave the states incentives to shrink their welfare caseloads, and forced them to limit families to five years or less of federal money.
Mr Grogger points out that only half of America's reduction in welfare caseloads stemmed from women leaving the rolls; the other half occurred because fewer women entered the welfare system.The incentives that are now in place should help to keep that entry rate down.
(The national caseload fell from 4.5m in 1996 to 1.6m last year. This year's national figures are not yet available).Some see surging caseloads as evidence that the safety net is working.
This year's stimulus bill provides extra cash for states whose welfare caseloads increase.
A truth-and-reconciliation commission was appointed and legal investigators began to work through their caseloads of the dead and injured.
This is essential both to measure malaria incidence more accurately and to assess the success or failure of various policies.With enough time and effort, big reductions in malaria caseloads reported in future WHO studies could even be cause for celebration rather than embarrassment.
For the caseloads predicted for late November and December, the 70% treatment level seen as needed to bring things under control corresponds to tens of thousands of beds.For a sense of the resources required to raise the tempo, consider that the 70-bed facility in Bong cost $170,000 to build.
In much of the United States, but not in Wisconsin, caseloads rocketed in the recession of the early 1990s.
A strong economy, generating plenty of jobs, has undoubtedly helped; but the main reason for the steep decline in caseloads is the reform itself.
