This chapter focuses on the efforts to study the Family Cap. The chapter says that the information provided in the reports could not possibly align with all the interests and ideologies that had formed around the implementation of a Family Cap. In November, the researchers and the other members of the evaluation team received an “A” for academic integrity from the Center for the Analysis of Public Issues, a public policy institute located in Princeton, New Jersey. The researchers were praised for “sticking to our original conclusion [in our reports] even after worried Human Services officials sent the reports back for re-evaluation”.
Keywords: Family Cap, welfare reform, abortion, social policy research,