WELFARE TO WORK - BUILDING A BETTER PATH TO PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

As welfare reform legislation takes effect, employers in both the priv ate and public sectors hope to create jobs and offer employment to ove r two million former welfare recipients entering the labor market. We examine the economic environment facing these welfare-to-work efforts: the job market and the characteristics of the welfare population, cur rent business approaches, and employment policy regulations which coul d be changed to ease the often difficult transition from welfare to wo rk.