

Moving People from Welfare to Work. Lessons from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies.. 2. The Status Quo and the Interventions
As has been documented in many studies, most welfare recipients eventually find jobs, and most do not stay on welfare for long. The challenge for welfare-to-work programs is to improve on these rates of job finding and welfare exit by enabling people to find jobs and leave welfare more quickly, to keep jobs longer and avoid returning to the welfar