Welfare to what? (Networks).(welfare-to-work programs)(Brief Article)
American Prospect, The, January, 2002
AS TIME LIMITS ON WELFARE benefits, or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), start to hit this fall, gains in transitioning people from welfare to work over the past five years are eroding as the recession takes hold.
Harder economic times bring new urgency to the October 2002 reauthorization of TANF, with hearings beginning in the spring. The National Campaign for Jobs and Income Support (CJIS), a project of the Center for Community Change, has formed a Make TANF Work network of 1,000 grass-roots organizations in 40 states (www.maketanfwork.org). CJIS has issued ...
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