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Irene
Lurie |
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Specialization: Public
Finance and Welfare Policy
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Irene Lurie has been
an economist with the Brookings Institution,
the Council of Economic Advisers, and
the Institute for Research on Poverty
at the University of Wisconsin. She
teaches courses in economics and welfare
policy. Her current research
examines the management and practices
of local welfare offices to understand
how welfare programs operate at the
front lines of service delivery. Previously,
she was co-principal investigator
of the sponsored program, "An Implementation
Study of the JOBS Program." Her
publications include works on welfare
reform initiatives, other federal grant
programs, and social services in New
York State.
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Professor. Ph.D., University
of California at Berkeley, 1969
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Recent Publications: |
At the Front Lines of the Welfare System: A Perspective on the Decline in Welfare Caseloads,
Albany, NY: Rockefeller Institute Press, 2006, 284 pages |
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Chapter 9: "State Welfare Policy" in The State of the States, fourth edition, edited by Carl E. Van Horn (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2006). |
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With Norma
Riccucci, "Changing
the 'Culture' of Welfare Offices -
From Vision
to the Front Lines," Administration & Society,
2003, Vol. 34, No. 6. |
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"Changing
Welfare Offices" in Isabel
Sawhill et al., Welfare Reform and
Beyond:
The Future of the Safety
Net, Brookings Institution, 2002 |
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