Overview and policy recommendations. Welfare reform : an agenda for reauthorization / Ron Haskins and Rebecca M. Blank. The bigger issues. Implementation of the Personal Responsibility Act of 1996 / Thomas L. Gais, Richard P. Nathan, Irene Lurie, and Thomas Kaplan
Work, wages, and welfare / Rebecca M. Blank and Lucie Schmidt
Effects of welfare reform on family income and poverty / Ron Haskins
Family formation / Charles Murray
The politics of welfare reform / Hugh Heclo
The politics of conservative welfare reform / Lawrence M. Mead.

Specific issues and policies. Improving employment outcomes under TANF / Julie Strawn, Mark Greenberg, and Steve Savner
State sanctions and time limits / LaDonna Pavetti and Dan Bloom
Financial work incentives for low-wage workers / Charles Michalopoulos and Gordon Berlin
Work experience under welfare reform / Jason A. Turner and Thomas Main
Will TANF work for the most disadvantaged families? / Sheila R. Zedlewski and Pamela Loprest
Supporting work through Medicaid and food stamps / Robert Greenstein and Jocelyn Guyer
Welfare reform and immigration / George J. Borjas
Welfare reform and children's well-being / Greg J. Duncan and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale.

Associated program reforms. Fathers, marriage, and welfare reform / Wade F. Horn and Isabel V. Sawhill
Child support in the new world of welfare / Irwin Garfinkel
Child care after welfare reform / Douglas J. Besharov with Nazanin Samari
Effects of the 1996 welfare reform changes on the SSI program / Lynn A. Karoly, Jacob Alex Klerman, and Jeanette A. Rogowski.