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News Release A new report by the Oregon Center for Public Policy (OCPP) finds that Oregon’s efforts to end child
Executive Summary Increasingly, the capacity of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program to reduce poverty in Oregon depends
In Oregon and the rest of the United States, public policies that support mothers have not kept up with changes
Oregon’s welfare agency, the Adult and Family Services Division of the Department of Human Services, is telling poor women on
News Release A new report released today by the Oregon Center for Public Policy describes how Oregon could change its
News Release The state welfare agency, the Adult and Family Services Division, (AFS) is demanding that caseworkers significantly reduce their
Earlier this week a new study by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC) showed that a Minnesota welfare reform pilot
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