Children's Budget Report, The: A Detailed Analysis of Spending on Low-Income Children's Programs in 13 States

An Urban InstituteProgram to AssessChanging Social PoliciesThe Children’sBudget Report: A DetailedAnalysis ofSpending onLow-IncomeChildren’sPrograms in13StatesThe Children’sBudget Report: A DetailedAnalysis ofSpending onLow-IncomeChildren’sPrograms in13StatesKimura FloresToby DouglasThe Urban InstituteDeborah A. EllwoodFiscal Policy InstituteOccasional Paper Number 14Assessingthe NewFederalism An Urban InstituteProgram to AssessChanging Social PoliciesThe Children’sBudget Report: A DetailedAnalysis ofSpending onLow-IncomeChildren’sPrograms in13StatesKimura FloresToby DouglasThe Urban Institute Deborah A. EllwoodFiscal Policy InstituteAssessingthe NewFederalismOccasional Paper Number 14The UrbanInstitute2100 M Street, N.W.Washington, D.C. 20037Phone: 202.833.7200Fax: 202.429.0687E-Mail: paffairs@ui.urban.orghttp://www.urban.org Copyright qSeptember 1998. The Urban Institute. All rights reserved. Except for short quotes, no part of this book maybe reproduced in any form or utilized in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying,recording, or by information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from The Urban Institute.This report is part of The Urban Institute’s Assessing the New Federalismproject, a multi-year effort to monitor andassess the devolution of social programs from the federal to the state and local levels. Alan Weil is the project direc-tor and Anna Kondratas is the deputy director. The project analyzes changes in income support, social services, andhealth programs. In collaboration with Child Trends, Inc., the project studies child and family well-being.The project has received funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Henry J.Kaiser Family Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the CharlesStewart Mott Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, the Stuart Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,the Weingart Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Fund for New Jersey, and the Rockefeller Foundation.Additional funding is provided by the Joyce Foundation and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation through asubcontract with the University of Wisconsin at Madison.The authors would like to thank the late Steven D. Gold, who initiated this project and whose presence is sorelymissed. His memory and writings were invoked many times throughout the preparation of this report. The authors also thank Larry Thompson, who provided overall guidance on this project, keeping it on track throughSteve Gold’s illness and through two separate maternity leaves. In addition to the authors, several Urban Institute staffcontributed to the report. Rebecca Clark assisted in the initial design of the project and collected budget informationfrom Massachusetts; Karen Tumlin gathered and analyzed budget information for Texas and New Jersey; Alan Weil,Anna Kondratas, Frank Ullman, and Rudy Penner reviewed various drafts. The authors would also like to thank ChuckLieberman and Todd Bland at the California Legislative Analyst’s Office, Patrick Bresette at the Center for Public PolicyPriorities in Texas, and David Maxwell-Jolly at the California Senate Appropriations Committee for their helpful com-ments and for sharing their state budget expertise; Frank Mauro and Jennifer McCormick at the Fiscal Policy Institutein New York for their assistance in analyzing the budget information for Alabama, New York, and California; andDonald J. Boyd at the Center for the Study of the States at the Rockefeller Institute of Government for his assistancewith New York State budget information.Several budget experts in the states patiently responded to our many inquiries about all aspects of their budgets. Wewould particularly like to thank the following people: James Connell, Alabama Department of Human Resources;Gladys Stokely, Alabama Department of Education; William Johnson, Alabama Department of Public Health; WinonaNelson, Alabama Department of Rehabilitative Services; Alisa Davis, Alabama Department of Youth Services; CraigBrown, Dennis Hordyk, Carl Rogers, Veronica Chung-Ng, Yoshi Fujiwara, Don Enderton, and Kristin Shelton, Cali-fornia Department of Finance; David Kupper, California Department of Social Services; Maura Donovan, CaliforniaDepartment of Health Services; Bill Meneguzzi, California Office of Criminal Justice Planning; Janet Finley, CaliforniaDepartment of Education; Cary Kennedy, Colorado Office of State Planning and Budgeting; Tom Weaver and RobinTaylor, Florida Office of Planning and Budgeting; Janet Whitman, Florida Department of Children and Families, Officeof Planning, Budgeting, and Grants Management; Patricia Flaherty, Massachusetts Budget Bureau; Paul Reinhart, GregGessert, Jim Hogan, and Joanne Bump, Michigan Department of Management and Budget, Office of Health and HumanServices; Tom Rice, Minnesota Department of Finance; David Mitchel, Dorothy Smith, and Tommy Brumfield, Mis-sissippi Dep