Social Work
Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and Welfare

• Backgrounder on Welfare Reform--from AllPolitics Com, includes the law, state experiments, a time line, statistics, and more.
• Change in Welfare Caseloads since 1993
• Child Poverty News and Issues
• Child Welfare Fact Sheet -- from the U.S. Administration for Children and Families
• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance--the basic guide to government welfare and assistance programs.
• Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services -- U.S. Government site
• Children's Health Insurance Program--official info from the Health Care Financing Administration.
• Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement--includes links to state agencies, documents and reports, including proposed rules, news updates
• Institute for Children & Poverty -- an excellent set of links.
• Institute for Research on Poverty.
• Kids Count Data Book
• Medicaid Clearinghouse -- stateby state comparisons and links.
• Medicare: Understanding the Issue -- The Understanding the Issue section lays out the facts and policy alternatives, while the Public Opinion section offers a detailed profile of public thinking about the issue.
• Moving Ideas -- News and Resources from more than 120 Research and Advocacy Organizations
• Office of Family Assistance--oversees Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, includes the Welfare Reform Promising Practices Conferences.
• Poverty Guidelines -- from the U.S. Health and Human Services Dept
• Poverty in the United States--statistics from the Census Bureau.
• Poverty-Related Links-- by category from the Institute for Research on Poverty.
• Research Forum on Children, Families and the New Federalism--a clearinghouse for research on welfare reform's effects in the various states.
• Senior Law-- information on medicaid and medicare, estate planning, and the rights of the elderly and disabled, from a law firm specializing in services to the elderly.
• Social Security Programs throughout the World -- after index in .pdf format.
• Welfare Reform Page  -- information about best practices, survey design to track recipients who leave the program, available federal programs, as well as files on how states are dealing with child support, child care, and immigration issues.
• Welfare to Work: U.S. Office of Personnel Management -- includes welfare to work hiring statistics.