Policy Matters
Policy Matters
Policy Matters is a series of papers dedicated to social policy issues in the state of Oregon. There are currently three issues.
Policy Matters #3
Understanding Medical Abortion: Policy, Politics, and Women’s Health
Co-authored by S. Marie Harvey (Director of CSWS’s Research Program on Women’s Health), Christy A. Sherman, Sheryl Thorburn Bird, and Jocelyn Warren
"When mifepristone (RU-486) was approved by the FDA in September 2000 for medical abortion, many in the pro-choice movement hoped that it would improve access to abortion by increasing the numbers of providers and making abortion services more widely available in underserved areas. However, medical abortion has not yet fulfilled these hopes..."
Co-authored by S. Marie Harvey (Director of CSWS’s Research Program on Women’s Health), Christy A. Sherman, Sheryl Thorburn Bird, and Jocelyn Warren
"When mifepristone (RU-486) was approved by the FDA in September 2000 for medical abortion, many in the pro-choice movement hoped that it would improve access to abortion by increasing the numbers of providers and making abortion services more widely available in underserved areas. However, medical abortion has not yet fulfilled these hopes..."
Publication Year
2002
Policy Matters #2
Welfare Restructuring, Work & Poverty: Policy Implications from Oregon
Co-authored by Joan Acker, Sandra Morgen, and Lisa Gonzales with Jill Weigt, Kate Barry and Terri Heath
"...looks at the experiences of families who left or were diverted from cash assistance (TANF) or Food Stamps in the first quarter of 1998. The data reveal that the effects of welfare restructuring programs are both more complex and less rosy than many policy makers admit."
Co-authored by Joan Acker, Sandra Morgen, and Lisa Gonzales with Jill Weigt, Kate Barry and Terri Heath
"...looks at the experiences of families who left or were diverted from cash assistance (TANF) or Food Stamps in the first quarter of 1998. The data reveal that the effects of welfare restructuring programs are both more complex and less rosy than many policy makers admit."
Publication Year
2002
Policy Matters #1
Valuing Families: The State of Oregon’s Families
by Leslie Harris, Dorothy Kliks Fones Professors of Law
"...is packed with charts, graphs, and text that illustrate the struggles and successes of families in meeting their day-to-day needs such as: the availability of affordable, accessible health care and child care, the impact of taxation on household income, the affordability of housing, childhood poverty rates, use of cash assistance, food stamps, and other services, domestic violence rates, and shelter availability."
by Leslie Harris, Dorothy Kliks Fones Professors of Law
"...is packed with charts, graphs, and text that illustrate the struggles and successes of families in meeting their day-to-day needs such as: the availability of affordable, accessible health care and child care, the impact of taxation on household income, the affordability of housing, childhood poverty rates, use of cash assistance, food stamps, and other services, domestic violence rates, and shelter availability."