Welfare Reform: Success in Moving toward Work. Hearing before the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness of the Committee on Education and the Workforce. House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First Session (October 16, 2001).

For full text: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=107_hou se_hearings&docid=f:80214.pdf.

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Adult Education; Block Grants; Economics; Education Work Relationship; Eligibility; Employed Women; Employment Level; Employment Patterns; Employment Problems; Federal Legislation; Federal Programs; Federal Regulation; Federal State Relationship; Job Training; Literature Reviews; Needs Assessment; Nonprofit Organizations; Policy Formation; Postsecondary Education; Poverty; Program Effectiveness; Program Improvement; Public Policy; Research and Development Centers; Researchers; Social Science Research; Social Services; State Agencies; State Programs; State Regulation; Trend Analysis; Voluntary Agencies; Welfare Recipients; Welfare Reform; Womens Education; Working Poor

District of Columbia; New York

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

This Congressional report contains the testimony and documents presented for the record at the second of two hearings on the effects of welfare reform and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant. Other areas receiving particular attention from witnesses included the impacts of education and training on employment patterns and welfare recipients' success in achieving economic self-sufficiency and the adequacy of the education and training authorized under TANF. The oral and written testimony focuses on the work requirements within the welfare reform bill that Congress passed in the 1996 legislation. The oral statements of the following individuals are presented: Howard "Buck" McKeon and Patsy T. Mink, Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness, Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives; Lynn A. Karoly, director, Labor and Population Program and Population Research Center, RAND Institute; E. Mona Garland, director, Opportunities Industrialization Center of Greater Milwaukee, Wisconsin Works; LaShunda Hall, former Wisconsin Works participant; Rodney Carroll, president and chief executive officer, The Welfare to Work Partnership, Washington, D.C.; Martha Davis, legal director, NOW-LDEF, New York; and Jennifer Brooks, director, Self-Sufficiency Programs and Policy, Wider Opportunities for Women. The report's eight appendixes contain the written statements submitted by the witnesses. (MN)

2003

ED470787