Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Information storage and retrieval systems
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Automated Welfare Systems
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Information storage and retrieval systems
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Automated Welfare Systems
Author: DIANE Publishing CompanyPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780788140907
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This report determines the extent to which states are developing and implementing automated information systems for federally supported welfare programs. Currently, the Federal participation rate to support states development and operation of automated systems, including the development of replacement systems is at least 50%. Consequently, the Federal government may pay the largest share of an estimated $10.7 billion in additional automated system costs projected from fiscal year 1993 through the end of the decade. Charts and tables.
Automating Inequality
Author: Virginia EubanksPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466885963
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
WINNER: The 2019 Lillian Smith Book Award, 2018 McGannon Center Book Prize, and shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice Astra Taylor, author of The People's Platform: "The single most important book about technology you will read this year." Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body: "A must-read." A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination?and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years—because a new computer system interprets any mistake as “failure to cooperate.” In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative vulnerability of tens of thousands of homeless people in order to prioritize them for an inadequate pool of housing resources. In Pittsburgh, a child welfare agency uses a statistical model to try to predict which children might be future victims of abuse or neglect. Since the dawn of the digital age, decision-making in finance, employment, politics, health and human services has undergone revolutionary change. Today, automated systems—rather than humans—control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. While we all live under this new regime of data, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor. In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The book is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories, from a woman in Indiana whose benefits are literally cut off as she lays dying to a family in Pennsylvania in daily fear of losing their daughter because they fit a certain statistical profile. The U.S. has always used its most cutting-edge science and technology to contain, investigate, discipline and punish the destitute. Like the county poorhouse and scientific charity before them, digital tracking and automated decision-making hide poverty from the middle-class public and give the nation the ethical distance it needs to make inhumane choices: which families get food and which starve, who has housing and who remains homeless, and which families are broken up by the state. In the process, they weaken democracy and betray our most cherished national values. This deeply researched and passionate book could not be more timely.
Welfare Programs
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aid to families with dependent children programs
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Reforming the Present Welfare System
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Department Operations, Nutrition, and Foreign AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Welfare reform tribal TANF allows flexibility to tailor programs, but conditions on reservations make it difficult to move recipients into jobs.
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428946187
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Welfare reform : improving state automated systems requires coordinated federal effort : report to congressional committees
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428973257
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Hearing to Review Federal Nutrition Programs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, and ForestryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Child Support Enforcement
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child support
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Child Support Enforcement
Author: Christie M. MotleyPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788147404
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Automating child support information systems appears to improve caseworker productivity, allowing automatic searches of other databases and eliminating the need to develop voluminous paper documentation. Automated systems also help track court actions relating to paternity, support orders, collections and distributions. This report makes several recommendations designed to increase the likelihood that states will develop child support systems that perform as required and to minimize the risk of costly technology decisions and wasted expenditures during the development and implementation of these systems.