The Nation - News from Feb. 2, 1987
Financially hard-pressed states are providing welfare recipients with job search help, but not the education and training they need to qualify for productive and lasting jobs, a study reported. The nonpartisan congressional study of 61 work programs in 38 states found the predominant service offered was assistance designed to place participants immediately in jobs, not remedial education or training to improve skills. Partly as a result, the General Accounting Office study said, many welfare parents, mostly women, ended up working in low-wage and/or part-time jobs.
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