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Download full textCohen, Marie – Issue Notes, 1998
In the past, post-secondary education has been an option for welfare recipients wishing to increase their earning power. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) shifted federal policy and made it more difficult for welfare recipients to pursue a college education. Nevertheless, several work activities…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Access to Education, Community Colleges, Educational Legislation
Cohen, Marie – Issue Notes, 1998
Some welfare experts and policymakers advocate providing education and training to prepare welfare recipients for jobs that will eventually help them leave poverty (the "work first" approach), whereas others advocate placing welfare recipients in jobs immediately whenever possible. Although the Personal Responsibility and Work…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Basic Skills
Kramer, Fredrica D. – Issue Notes, 1998
This publication, one of a series designed to help policymakers and TANF [Temporary Assistance for Needy Families] agency personnel, offers a baseline for understanding the challenge of serving persons who are being forced off welfare roles but who are hard to place in employment. The following topics are covered: (1) policy issues (who should be…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adults, Compliance (Legal), Demonstration Programs
Cohen, Marie – Issue Notes, 1998
This publication, one of a series designed to help policymakers and TANF [Temporary Assistance for Needy Families] agency personnel, offers an overview of programs providing publicly funded paid jobs in the public or nonprofit sector to TANF recipients, as well as of work experience programs in which recipients receive welfare payment in return…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adults, Compliance (Legal), Demonstration Programs
Friedman, Pamela – Issue Notes, 1999
This document explains how community work experience programs (CWEP) and publicly funded jobs (PFJ) can be used to help hard-to-serve welfare recipients meet the work requirements imposed by the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. The document begins with a brief overview of available options for helping hard-to-serve welfare…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Disabilities, Eligibility
Relave, Nanette – Issue Notes, 2000
This document examines selected issues related to collaboration between the welfare and work force development systems under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, Welfare-to-Work grant program, and Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA). The document begins with a brief overview of how recent policy developments have created…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Basic Skills, Cooperative Planning
Cohen, Marie – Issue Notes, 1998
This document examines issues related to promoting education among teenage recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The document begins with background information about the provisions of recent federal legislation affecting TANF recipients under age 20. The following are among the 16 policy and management issues considered in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Agency Role
