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...Mary Jo Bane, who left the Kennedy School to take the job of deputy commissioner of the New York state department of social services in 1984, received the tenure offer one year later. Her New York position put her second in command of a budget of $16 billion that covered the New York's welfare, medicare programs and more...
...Bane has been hailed by her colleagues as a leader in the field of welfare policy, having performed landmark studies on the effect of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) on family structure and the differences between long-term and short-term welfare dependecies...
...would just as soon not have been the first woman, but there are a lot of women around here," said Bane, who was an associate professor at the Kennedy School from 1981 to 1984. "Your colleagues are your colleagues...
...Bane said she had "very mixed feelings" leaving her position in New York's welfare department. "It was satisfying--I felt as though I were making some contribution...
...controversial report two decades ago, called the Administration study "less a policy paper than a tantrum. They're not writing from facts. This is just ideology." Indeed, there is little hard evidence to show that welfare alone encourages family breakdown. A study by Sociologists David Ellwood and Mary Jo Bane, of Harvard's Kennedy School, found no correlation between the birth rates for unwed mothers and welfare-benefit levels from state to state. They argue, "As an explanation for the dramatic changes in family structure, welfare benefits are largely impotent...