Poverty outlasts welfare reform. (News Watch).(Connecticut)(from the Hartford Courant)(Brief Article)(Reprint)

Policy & Practice of Public Human Services, March, 2002

The Hartford Courant Welfare reform in Connecticut has moved people into jobs since 1996, but it has not significantly improved their well-being leaving many among the state's working poor, according to a detailed study. The extensive review suggests that while the state's Jobs First program "was reasonably successful" in moving people into work and paring welfare rolls by nearly 60 percent since 1996, it has yet to succeed as an anti-poverty program, even during a period of ...