| Author: | Melcher, R. Hammonds, K. DeGeorge, G. |
| Title: | Welfare time bomb? |
| Journal: | Business Week
1996 : AUG 19, VOL. 3473:803, p. 32-33 |
| Index terms: | ECONOMICS USA WELFARE |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | federal reform has states edgy about hiked costs and lost innovation. For two years, Minnesota has been at the forefront of welfare reform, experimenting with a pilot program that has shifted 36% of aid recipients in eight counties into work. But now, officials are rushing back to the drawing board. A new federal law will require every state to place half its welfare population in jobs by 2002 - a timetable few officials feel they can meet without huge sacrifices. By mid-August, President Clinton is expected to sign legislation enabling the most radical welfare reform since the system was crafted 60 years ago. |
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