Michelle Livermore
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4100328 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michelle Livermore |
| PRENOMES | Michelle |
| SOBRENOME | Livermore |
| ASSINATURA | LIVERMORE M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Louisiana State University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Fintech and the fringe economy
Access to financial products and services in the United States has long been unequal, and the unprecedented rapid adoption of fintech in the banking sector has brought new opportunities and challenges for financial access. Existing fintech research has mostly focused on mortgage lending; no study has investigated how fintech adoption relates to alternative financial services, a growing fringe economy that is commonly found in poor, minority-major…
Financial Circumstances Associated with Rent-to-Own Usage in a Time of Covid-Induced Economic Uncertainty
Organizational Social Media Use and Community Social Capital
Organizations play an essential role in solving community problems and social media facilitates their efforts. This paper illustrates an approach to using the social media data of organizations to observe community-level social capital unobtrusively by comparing communities that differ by racial composition and poverty. Data from the IRS, US Census Bureau, and social media platforms revealed that most nonprofit organizations in a mid-sized city i…
The Negative Association between Alternative Financial Services Usage and Financial Well-Being
As reliance on alternative financial services (AFS) usage continues its exponential expansion among American families, policy debates over banking regulation perdure with limited empirical understanding of how usage affects individuals’ financial lives. Using data from the 2014 Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking, this study explored the association between AFS use and financial well-being using a nationally representative sample (N …
Identifying Individual Social Capital Profiles in Low-Resource Communities
Objective: Understanding social capital patterns among community members has been identified as a strategy to help community organizers plan more effective neighborhood engagement approaches. This study seeks to identify and describe social capital profiles among residents of a low-resource community. Method: We used a cross-sectional, community-based participatory research design to administer a face-to-face head-of-household survey (N = 121 hou…
Worth beyond Work? Civic Engagement and Social Support Provision of Benefit Recipients
Changes in government assistance laws over the last 30 years reflect concern that government benefits cause dependency. Public discourse classifies able-bodied, non-working individuals as “undeserving” of government assistance and the literature focuses on whether individuals receiving government assistance contribute to society by engaging in paid work. This study investigates if 120 residents of a low-resource community receiving more governmen…
Social Work Advocacy
This study employed an analysis of the advocacy-related resources and materials available through the 50 NASW state chapter websites. Results revealed that a large number of states had no information about advocacy on their websites (42%). One third of the mission statements reviewed contained language indicating that advocacy was part of the chapter mission, while nearly as many included no content related to advocacy or social justice on their …
Predicting Material Hardship Among Former Welfare-to-Work Participants
Material hardship is of concern because it refers to physical deprivation related to meeting the basic needs of food, housing, utilities, and other items. This study tests a predictive income- and resource-packaging model of material hardship using survey data collected from 459 former welfare-to-work program participants. Logistic regression results show that receiving social support in the form of living rent-free decreased the odds for experie…
The Complex Lives of Disconnected Welfare Leavers
With no federal entitlement to cash assistance, some unemployed welfare leavers have no obvious means of support. This article compares former Louisiana's Strategies to Empower People (STEP) participants who are disconnected from employment and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) to those who are connected. Logistic regressions show that disconnected welfare leavers are more likely to have transportation problems, live rent free, and e…
The Extended Reach of Minority Political Power
This paper explores the conditions under which descriptive and bureaucratic representation translate into policy outcomes. In particular, it investigates the role of managerial networking in providing a conduit for black political power to influence policy outcomes for black clients. Using administrative data, survey data, and parish-level contextual data on new participants to Louisiana's welfare to work program from April 2004 through September…
Material Hardship Among Banked and Unbanked Earned Income Tax Credit-Eligible Families
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has helped millions of Americans escape poverty. However, there is a dearth of research examining the experience of material hardship among EITC recipients. A lack of mainstream banking, disproportionately experienced by the poor, may also be related to increased hardship experiences. This study, using a sample of families receiving the EITC, investigates the hardship differences experienced depending on bankin…
The Handbook of Social Policy
The Handbook of Social Policy is an attempt to document the now substantial body of knowledge about government social policies that has been accumulated since the study of social policy first emerged as an organized field of academic endeavor about 50 years ago. The Second Edition offers a more streamlined format to make the book more consistent with the way most instructors teach their courses. This text is a comprehensive yet accessible introdu…
Unfulfilled Plans and Financial Stress
Unwed mothers and their families find themselves in especially fragile social and economic positions, and employment for them presents unique challenges. Using the mother-only subset of the Fragile Families1 public-use baseline and one-year follow-up data, our paper describes the financial stressors experienced by unwed mothers with unfulfilled employment plans. Our findings offer a clarification of the social structural constraints within which …
Will unwed new mothers seek employment
Linking Welfare Clients to Jobs
The overarching theme of the 1996 welfare reform law was to move clients from dependency to self-sufficiency by facilitating their entry into the labor market. While numerous mechanisms were used to do this, this study explores discretionary actions taken by workers to help clients find jobs, namely, tapping into their own social capital. Respondents in one urban and one rural county in a southern state reported using their own social capital to …
Social Capital and Local Economic Development
Although the concept of social capital has direct relevance to community practice, it is not widely known in social work. This paper defines the concept, traces the development of social capital theory, and examines ways in which community social workers can promote local economic development by enhancing social capital. It contends that community social workers can make a major contribution to local economic development by implementing projects …
The Developmental Perspective in Social Work
The developmental perspective is attracting more attention today as conventional residual and institutional approaches to social welfare lose appeal. This article explains the need to adopt a developmental perspective, traces its history, describes its key features, and outlines implications for social work education with reference to the educational needs of a new century
Social Capital and Local Economic Development
Although the concept of social capital has direct relevance to community practice, it is not widely known in social work. This paper defines the concept, traces the development of social capital theory, and examines ways in which community social workers can promote local economic development by enhancing social capital. It contends that community social workers can make a major contribution to local economic development by implementing projects …
The Extended Reach of Minority Political Power
This paper explores the conditions under which descriptive and bureaucratic representation translate into policy outcomes. In particular, it investigates the role of managerial networking in providing a conduit for black political power to influence policy outcomes for black clients. Using administrative data, survey data, and parish-level contextual data on new participants to Louisiana's welfare to work program from April 2004 through September…
The Developmental Perspective in Social Work
The developmental perspective is attracting more attention today as conventional residual and institutional approaches to social welfare lose appeal. This article explains the need to adopt a developmental perspective, traces its history, describes its key features, and outlines implications for social work education with reference to the educational needs of a new century
Material Hardship Among Banked and Unbanked Earned Income Tax Credit-Eligible Families
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has helped millions of Americans escape poverty. However, there is a dearth of research examining the experience of material hardship among EITC recipients. A lack of mainstream banking, disproportionately experienced by the poor, may also be related to increased hardship experiences. This study, using a sample of families receiving the EITC, investigates the hardship differences experienced depending on bankin…
The Complex Lives of Disconnected Welfare Leavers
With no federal entitlement to cash assistance, some unemployed welfare leavers have no obvious means of support. This article compares former Louisiana's Strategies to Empower People (STEP) participants who are disconnected from employment and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) to those who are connected. Logistic regressions show that disconnected welfare leavers are more likely to have transportation problems, live rent free, and e…
The Negative Association between Alternative Financial Services Usage and Financial Well-Being
As reliance on alternative financial services (AFS) usage continues its exponential expansion among American families, policy debates over banking regulation perdure with limited empirical understanding of how usage affects individuals’ financial lives. Using data from the 2014 Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking, this study explored the association between AFS use and financial well-being using a nationally representative sample (N …
Predicting Material Hardship Among Former Welfare-to-Work Participants
Material hardship is of concern because it refers to physical deprivation related to meeting the basic needs of food, housing, utilities, and other items. This study tests a predictive income- and resource-packaging model of material hardship using survey data collected from 459 former welfare-to-work program participants. Logistic regression results show that receiving social support in the form of living rent-free decreased the odds for experie…
Identifying Individual Social Capital Profiles in Low-Resource Communities
Objective: Understanding social capital patterns among community members has been identified as a strategy to help community organizers plan more effective neighborhood engagement approaches. This study seeks to identify and describe social capital profiles among residents of a low-resource community. Method: We used a cross-sectional, community-based participatory research design to administer a face-to-face head-of-household survey (N = 121 hou…
Will unwed new mothers seek employment
The Developmental Perspective in Social Work
The developmental perspective is attracting more attention today as conventional residual and institutional approaches to social welfare lose appeal. This article explains the need to adopt a developmental perspective, traces its history, describes its key features, and outlines implications for social work education with reference to the educational needs of a new century
Social Capital and Local Economic Development
Although the concept of social capital has direct relevance to community practice, it is not widely known in social work. This paper defines the concept, traces the development of social capital theory, and examines ways in which community social workers can promote local economic development by enhancing social capital. It contends that community social workers can make a major contribution to local economic development by implementing projects …
Will unwed new mothers seek employment
Linking Welfare Clients to Jobs
The overarching theme of the 1996 welfare reform law was to move clients from dependency to self-sufficiency by facilitating their entry into the labor market. While numerous mechanisms were used to do this, this study explores discretionary actions taken by workers to help clients find jobs, namely, tapping into their own social capital. Respondents in one urban and one rural county in a southern state reported using their own social capital to …
Unfulfilled Plans and Financial Stress
Unwed mothers and their families find themselves in especially fragile social and economic positions, and employment for them presents unique challenges. Using the mother-only subset of the Fragile Families1 public-use baseline and one-year follow-up data, our paper describes the financial stressors experienced by unwed mothers with unfulfilled employment plans. Our findings offer a clarification of the social structural constraints within which …
The Handbook of Social Policy
The Handbook of Social Policy is an attempt to document the now substantial body of knowledge about government social policies that has been accumulated since the study of social policy first emerged as an organized field of academic endeavor about 50 years ago. The Second Edition offers a more streamlined format to make the book more consistent with the way most instructors teach their courses. This text is a comprehensive yet accessible introdu…
Material Hardship Among Banked and Unbanked Earned Income Tax Credit-Eligible Families
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has helped millions of Americans escape poverty. However, there is a dearth of research examining the experience of material hardship among EITC recipients. A lack of mainstream banking, disproportionately experienced by the poor, may also be related to increased hardship experiences. This study, using a sample of families receiving the EITC, investigates the hardship differences experienced depending on bankin…
The Extended Reach of Minority Political Power
This paper explores the conditions under which descriptive and bureaucratic representation translate into policy outcomes. In particular, it investigates the role of managerial networking in providing a conduit for black political power to influence policy outcomes for black clients. Using administrative data, survey data, and parish-level contextual data on new participants to Louisiana's welfare to work program from April 2004 through September…
The Complex Lives of Disconnected Welfare Leavers
With no federal entitlement to cash assistance, some unemployed welfare leavers have no obvious means of support. This article compares former Louisiana's Strategies to Empower People (STEP) participants who are disconnected from employment and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) to those who are connected. Logistic regressions show that disconnected welfare leavers are more likely to have transportation problems, live rent free, and e…
Social Work Advocacy
This study employed an analysis of the advocacy-related resources and materials available through the 50 NASW state chapter websites. Results revealed that a large number of states had no information about advocacy on their websites (42%). One third of the mission statements reviewed contained language indicating that advocacy was part of the chapter mission, while nearly as many included no content related to advocacy or social justice on their …
Predicting Material Hardship Among Former Welfare-to-Work Participants
Material hardship is of concern because it refers to physical deprivation related to meeting the basic needs of food, housing, utilities, and other items. This study tests a predictive income- and resource-packaging model of material hardship using survey data collected from 459 former welfare-to-work program participants. Logistic regression results show that receiving social support in the form of living rent-free decreased the odds for experie…
Identifying Individual Social Capital Profiles in Low-Resource Communities
Objective: Understanding social capital patterns among community members has been identified as a strategy to help community organizers plan more effective neighborhood engagement approaches. This study seeks to identify and describe social capital profiles among residents of a low-resource community. Method: We used a cross-sectional, community-based participatory research design to administer a face-to-face head-of-household survey (N = 121 hou…
Worth beyond Work? Civic Engagement and Social Support Provision of Benefit Recipients
Changes in government assistance laws over the last 30 years reflect concern that government benefits cause dependency. Public discourse classifies able-bodied, non-working individuals as “undeserving” of government assistance and the literature focuses on whether individuals receiving government assistance contribute to society by engaging in paid work. This study investigates if 120 residents of a low-resource community receiving more governmen…
The Negative Association between Alternative Financial Services Usage and Financial Well-Being
As reliance on alternative financial services (AFS) usage continues its exponential expansion among American families, policy debates over banking regulation perdure with limited empirical understanding of how usage affects individuals’ financial lives. Using data from the 2014 Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking, this study explored the association between AFS use and financial well-being using a nationally representative sample (N …
Organizational Social Media Use and Community Social Capital
Organizations play an essential role in solving community problems and social media facilitates their efforts. This paper illustrates an approach to using the social media data of organizations to observe community-level social capital unobtrusively by comparing communities that differ by racial composition and poverty. Data from the IRS, US Census Bureau, and social media platforms revealed that most nonprofit organizations in a mid-sized city i…
Financial Circumstances Associated with Rent-to-Own Usage in a Time of Covid-Induced Economic Uncertainty
Fintech and the fringe economy
Access to financial products and services in the United States has long been unequal, and the unprecedented rapid adoption of fintech in the banking sector has brought new opportunities and challenges for financial access. Existing fintech research has mostly focused on mortgage lending; no study has investigated how fintech adoption relates to alternative financial services, a growing fringe economy that is commonly found in poor, minority-major…
Political science (14 obras) · Economics (11 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Economic growth (8 obras) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (7 obras) · Social Work (7 obras) · Business (6 obras) · Homelessness and Social Issues (6 obras) · Public relations (6 obras) · Work (physics (6 obras)