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Download full textFitzgerald, Joan – 2000
This paper addresses the role community colleges can play in moving the working poor toward economic independence. Since Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) was enacted in 1996, there have been many new job openings in the country. But, employment and earnings prospects for job seekers leaving the welfare system are dismal. TANF clients…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, Sacramento. – 2002
The purpose of this paper is to increase awareness and understanding of the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) Program. The Academic Senate holds the view that welfare reform that focuses on "work first" tends to push participants into below-subsistence-level jobs and eclipses an emphasis on long-term…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Colleges, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Legislation
