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Navigating Welfare-to-Work Requirements to Meet Essential Needs among UC CalWORKs Student Parents

Yu-Ling Chang - Professor, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: Off Campus

This project investigates how student parents enrolled in CalWORKs (welfare-to-work) program navigate complex welfare requirements while pursuing higher education across the University of California (UC) system. Grounded in administrative burden theory, our study explores how the learning, compliance, and psychological costs embedded in public benefit systems affect student...

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