During the 1989 VISTA Reauthorization Hearings, Congress expressed interest in raising the proportion of VISTA volunteers with college degrees. As part of this effort, ACTION endeavored to make college students more aware of the VISTA program and increase applications from college campuses through a targeted marketing campaign. This campaign took place during the 1991-1992 school year.
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Advanced SearchDisability Among Women on AFDC: An Issue Revisited
Since 1984, a number of welfare reform proposals intended to lessen dependence on AFDC have been enacted. The current Administration is continuing to address welfare dependency. The purpose of this paper is to update results on the disability status of women of AFDC based on the 1990 SIPP with welfare reform in mind.
Number of Medicaid Recipients Up: CPS Shows the Number of Uninsured Also Rises
The number of persons with no health insurance coverage rose by 4% between 1989 and 1990, while the number with insurance rose less than 1%. The increase in insurance coverage was due primarily to increases in Medicaid coverage for children under 15.
Policy Issues Affecting the Medicaid Personal Care Services Optional Benefit
The project examined how states have used Medicaid's Personal Care Services Optional Benefit (also called the PC Option), assessed whether coverage regulations for these services be revised, and discussed the ways in which the program might affect public debate about the expansion of public funding for long-term care.
Research and Grants on Issues Relating to Children and Youth: 1986-1991
This compendium is published by the Division of Children and Youth Policy within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It summarizes the results of the Division's research projects from 1986 through the present.
The Federal Role in Consumer Protection and Regulation of Long-Term Care Insurance
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Welfare Mothers as Potential Employees: A Statistics Profile Based on National Survey Data
When women who receive welfare benefits are compared with other women, both poor and non-poor, in the NLSY and other national sample surveys, welfare mothers are notably different from non-poor mothers. At the same time, these data show that there is considerable diversity within the welfare population.
Long-Term Care for the Boomers: A Public Policy Challenge for the Twenty-first Century
Although the current difficulties in developing an adequate system of long-term care are extensive, they pale in comparison to the challenges ahead as the "baby boomers" come of age.
Programmatic Definitions of Disability: Policy Implications
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and EvaluationU.S. Department of Health and Human Services
1991
PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/prodefes.pdf (26 PDF pages)
Premium Pricing of Prototype Private Long-Term Care Insurance Policies: Final Report
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services