Job Prospects for Welfare Recipients
Author | : Marsha Regenstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Employer attitude surveys |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Marsha Regenstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Employer attitude surveys |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Harry J. Holzer |
Publisher | : Public Policy Instit. of CA |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Employer attitude surveys |
ISBN | : 1582130574 |
Author | : Demetra S. Nightingale |
Publisher | : The Urban Insitute |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780877666233 |
Recommends a redefined social contract that takes into account realities of the job market and the transitory sense of the assistance.
Author | : David Card |
Publisher | : Russell Sage Foundation |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 2000-06-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1610441044 |
Do plummeting welfare caseloads and rising employment prove that welfare reform policies have succeeded, or is this success due primarily to the job explosion created by today's robust economy? With roughly one to two million people expected to leave welfare in the coming decades, uncertainty about their long-term prospects troubles many social scientists. Finding Jobs offers a thorough examination of the low-skill labor market and its capacity to sustain this rising tide of workers, many of whom are single mothers with limited education. Each chapter examines specific trends in the labor market to ask such questions as: How secure are these low-skill jobs, particularly in the event of a recession? What can these workers expect in terms of wage growth and career advancement opportunities? How will a surge in the workforce affect opportunities for those already employed in low-skill jobs? Finding Jobs offers both good and bad news about work and welfare reform. Although the research presented in this book demonstrates that it is possible to find jobs for people who have traditionally relied on public assistance, it also offers cautionary evidence that today's strong economy may mask enduring underlying problems. Finding Jobs shows that the low-wage labor market is particularly vulnerable to economic downswings and that lower skilled workers enjoy less job stability. Several chapters illustrate why financial incentives, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), are as essential to encouraging workforce participation as job search programs. Other chapters show the importance of including provisions for health insurance, and of increasing subsidies for child care to assist the large population of working single mothers affected by welfare reform. Finding Jobs also examines the potential costs of new welfare restrictions. It looks at how states can improve their flexibility in imposing time limits on families receiving welfare, and calls into question the cutbacks in eligibility for immigrants, who traditionally have relied less on public assistance than their native-born counterparts. Finding Jobs is an informative and wide-ranging inquiry into the issues raised by welfare reform. Based on comprehensive new data, this volume offers valuable guidance to policymakers looking to design policies that will increase work, raise incomes, and lower poverty in changing economic conditions.
Author | : Alicia Bugarin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kathleen M. Shaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2006-08-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
"Using comprehensive interviews with government officials and sophisticated data from six states over a four-year period, Putting Poor People to Work shows how recent changes in public policy have reduced the quantity and quality of education and training available to adults to low incomes. The authors analyze how two policies encouraging work - the federal welfare reform law of 1996 and the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 - have made moving people off of public assistance as soon as possible a government priority, with little regard to their long-term career prospects. Putting Poor People to Work shows that since the passage of these "work-first" laws, not only are fewer low-income individuals pursuing postsecondary education, but when they do, they are increasingly directed toward the most ineffective, short-term forms of training, rather than higher-quality college-level education. Moreover, the schools most able and ready to serve poor adults - the community colleges - are deterred by these policies from doing so."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2000* |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kristin S. Seefeldt |
Publisher | : W.E. Upjohn Institute |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0880993448 |
Taps into the quantitative and qualitative evidence gathered in the Women's Employment Study (WES), offering insights into the lives of women in an urban Michigan county who left welfare for work and the role their family decisions play in their labor market decisions. Describes the day-to-day struggles these women face and the reasons they tend to remain in low-wage, dead-end jobs.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Manpower policy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Harry J. Holzer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Discrimination in employment |
ISBN | : |