FINAL REPORT—COMMENT VERSION

FINAL REPORT TANF Caseload Composition and Leavers Synthesis Report Contract Number 233-02-0092 Task Order Number HHSP23300013T March 28, 2007 SUBMITTED TO: Seth Chamberlain Leonard Sternbach (c/o Seth Chamberlain) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation 370 L’Enfant Promenade, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20447 REPORT PREPARED BY: Gregory Acs and Pamela Loprest The Urban Institute 2100 M Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20037 Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank Daniel Murphy, Mary Murphy, Sandi Nelson, Theresa Plummer, Justin Resnick, and Gretchen Rowe for their assistance in producing this report. We would also like to thank Richard Bavier, Peter Germanis, Naomi Goldstein, Susan Hauan, Donald Oellerich, and Howard Rolston for their thoughtful comments on earlier drafts. And we would especially like to thank our project officers, Seth Chamberlain and Leonard Sternbach, for their insightful comments and probing questions that helped shape this report. TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary ........................................................................................................................................ ii I. Introduction............................................................................................................................. ...