Multiple states offer a welfare program, "Welfare to Work", which allows low-income, unemployed people to learn job skills and technical skills. Some allow positions at private businesses and some offer positions and local government institutions/bureaucracies. A large issue brought up in providing welfare is that it lowers the incentive for people to become more self-sufficient. Does welfare to work take care of this issue? What do you guys think?
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Fatima Yousuf
Aug 23, 2017
Welfare to Work
Welfare to Work
The basis behind 'welfare to work' programs seems like it would be effective. Studies from Brookings (https://www.brookings.edu/research/from-welfare-to-work-what-the-evidence-shows/) have shown mixed results behind the 1996 reforms.