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The 1996 welfare reform legislation sought to discourage poor women
from childbearing by allowing a family-cap policy prohibiting an increase in cash
assistance when a new child is born. We conducted key-informant interviews with
officials from all 24 family-cap states on the policy's status, implementation,
opinions regarding its effectiveness, benefits and disadvantages. Most stated that
... read morethe policy's administrative burden and negative economic impact on poor families
outweighed its potential benefits. Some states implemented related policies that
further undermined family wellbeing and/or did not adopt the Medicaid expansion
increasing access to family planning, revealing a punitive social policy of
questionable effectiveness. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of
an article published in Journal of Poverty and Social Justice. The definitive
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