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Transitional Jobs: A Next Step in Welfare to Work Policy
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Waller, Margy |
| Copyright Year | 2002 |
| Abstract | T he welfare policy debate of the last decade has included an ongoing conversation about the need for publicly funded community service jobs in both cities and distressed rural areas. These jobs are wage paying, community service jobs for welfare recipients and other unemployed adults who have not been hired after a job search in the regular labor market. The jobs provide experience and references that improve chances of success in the job market and enable families to avoid destitution when welfare benefits end. Debate about whether such jobs are an important welfare to work strategy continues today as Congress prepares to reauthorize the landmark welfare reform legislation passed in 1996. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wallertransjobs.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |