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Jossi, Frank – Training, 1997
Describes successful welfare-to-work transition programs that provide training for welfare recipients for real jobs. Includes experiences of several companies, guidelines for hiring former welfare recipients, and websites with information about welfare reform. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Programs, Program Effectiveness, Training
Peer reviewedWehman, Paul; And Others – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 1997
Discusses the growth in Social Security Administration (SSA) disability programs and suggests that one means of assisting SSA beneficiaries to reduce dependence is for the SSA to directly or indirectly fund competitive employment initiatives focusing on vocational rehabilitation for individuals who are currently served in nonremunerative day…
Descriptors: Adults, Disabilities, Employment, Federal Programs
Peer reviewedMead, Lawrence M. – Public Administration Review, 1997
The Job Opportunities and Basic Skills program (JOBS) is an ambitious federal effort at welfare reform but the federal government has given local operators little direction on how to run it. JOBS can be improved using existing evaluations and analyses of administrative data. Reform depends mostly on capable local administration. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adults, Federal Programs, Federal State Relationship, Program Administration
National Governors' Association, Washington, DC. – 1995
The latest round of proposed state and federal welfare reforms has major implications for state work force development systems. These systems will face new demands generated by the need to help welfare recipients find jobs before they reach the time limits on aid and the need for states to meet the new work participation rates for federal welfare…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation, Job Development
National Coalition on Women, Work and Welfare Reform, Washington, DC. – 1987
This document presents a welfare reform proposal designed to ensure a transition toward economic self-sufficiency and an end to poverty. It consists of four distinct elements that form an integrated and interdependent whole. The first element is a series of initiatives to achieve an adequate income maintenance system that guarantees that all needy…
Descriptors: Adults, Change, Change Strategies, Economically Disadvantaged
Download full textLevitan, Sar A.; Gallo, Frank – 1993
The Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program, a component of the 1988 Family Support Act, emphasizes education and occupational training for welfare recipients, but it has not provided sufficient corrective measures to promote work among recipients of Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). The most serious deficiency of JOBS is…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Gault, Barbara – 2002
Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and the TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) programs can be coordinated in a number of ways, some of them especially focused on women. For example, research suggests the following: (1) WIA and TANF can be coordinated to improve low-income women's human capital development; (2) many states and localities…
Descriptors: Adults, Coordination, Employed Women, Federal Legislation
Peterson, Janice – 2002
Current debates about welfare reform center on the upcoming reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) legislation. The provisions of TANF include the elimination of the entitlement to cash assistance, block grant funding to the states, mandatory work requirements, sanctions, a 5-year limit on cash assistance, and…
Descriptors: Adults, Educational Needs, Employed Women, Entry Workers
Joint Economic Committee, Washington, DC. – 1984
Testimony from a congressional hearing on the dual role women play as wage earners and as mothers is presented. Other focuses of the hearing include what is being done and what needs to be done by the public and private sectors to facilitate the entry of women into a broad range of occupations, including higher paid nontraditional areas.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Vocational Education, Adults, Day Care
