| Title |
Welfare Reform and WorkFirst: The Challenges of Finding and Keeping a Job |
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| Abstract |
The Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee (JLARC), together with the Institute for Public Policy, has been assessing the impact of Washington's 1997 welfare reform WorkFirst since its beginning in 1997. This final phase of that evaluation focuses on the question: Do post-employment services make a difference in keeping welfare recipients employed? And we found that they do: these services help raise earnings and help people stay employed. Part 1 of the report provides a brief overview of what we have learned to-date from JLARC's evaluation of WorkFirst. Part 2 contains the Institute for Public Policy's report on the findings of its post-employment analysis. Part 3 concludes with follow-up information on WorkFirsts implementation of JLARC's major recommendations of the past three years.
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| Author(s) |
Ron Perry, Project Supervisor
John Woolley
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| Print Availability |
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JLARC Publications Officer
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| Keywords |
Welfare Reform, WorkFirst, work first, finding a job, finding and keeping a job, welfare caseload, post-employment, service, services, welfare clients, barriers to employment, work-focused approach, approaches, welfare work policy, welfare work policies, childcare vouchers, childcare voucher, child care vouchers, child care voucher, women on welfare, welfare caseload trends, trend, TANF, temporary aid to needy families, |
| Category |
Labor/Workforce Development |