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MEMORANDUM
TO:
T h ^ 4 l ent
FROM:
Eli Segal
DATE:
January 11, 1999
I N RE:
Welfare to Work, Two Years Later
1 ^
I enclose an AP article you may have missed on the continuing success of welfare to work.
Just two years ago, welfare to work was little more than a leap into the unknown. Would
time limits and a motivated business community surmount a bankrupt, but deeply embedded
system?While the resounding answer two years out is "yes" (dramatic decline in the rolls; hiring and
retention of hundreds of thousands of former recipients to good paying, full-time jobs with
health benefits), there is now a new note of skepticism about the last two million plus
"hardest to place."
We shouldn't be cavalier about those still left behind. Nevertheless, talk about "the hardest
to place" and "the bottom one third" is the jargon of social policy divorced from labor
market realities. I can now document many companies who stepped gingerly into welfare to
work two years ago who are so enthusiastic about the bottom line benefits to them now that
they are expanding their efforts while the pool grows smaller - even though it means they
will probably need to invest more dollars per hire for recruitment, training and retention.
That's the unstated message of this AP article. Welfare to work is not about dead end jobs
(a particularly noxious, even elitist, formulation). All companies, especially companies in
growing industries like financialservices, are looking to the nonf^^'tinnal «:niir^P£rf^ ^'
becauseThose tormerly on the rolls are proving ro he amnng rhpir-hpst •and mnsf loyil
employees.
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As you prepare for your State of the Union address, youll remember that you asked five
companies to lead the welfare to work effort in your address two years ago (UPS, United
Airlines, Sprint, Monsanto, Burger King). There are now 10.000 companies - all regions,
industries and sizes - who have joined them, virtually all of whom have already hired at least
one former recipient!
On the one hand, this is astonishing progress. On the other hand, it points out how many
great things can happen with inspired political leadership. It took courage and backbreakmg
work to find the right formula for you and a Republican Congress to pass the 1996 Welfare
Reform Act. Then, it took vision for you to challenge the business community to do its
part. The country is quietly reaping the rewards each day.
######
�Luis Vizcaino
From:
Laura Meckler [lmeckler@ap.org]
Sent:
Tuesday, January 05, 1999 5:09 PM
To:
Luis Vizcaino
Subject:
Welfare to Wall St. story
Welfare to Wall Street, Bjt,900<
Welfare-to-work where you'd least expect it<
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By LAURA MECKLER=
Associated Press Writer=
H NEW YORK (AP) _ Walk across the marbled atrium, through the security
checkpoint and past the Java City stand dispensing caffeinated
jump-starts to investment bankers. You'll find 10,000 Salomon Smith
Barney employees moving more than $1 trillion each week.
It seems galaxies away from the struggles of welfare, but scattered
throughout this world of multimillion-dollar stock offerings are 67
former welfare recipients _ proof, backers say, that welfare-to-work can
thrive even where you'd least expect it.
1| "Some of these women literally go from food stamps to stock options
within a year," said Michael Schlein, a corporate vice president.
Beyond the odd marriage of welfare and Wall Street, the program
represents a fundamental shift in the job-training field, from
traditional programs that prepared people for the abstract work force to
training for an actual, specific job. Here, the jobs include filing,
processing checks and executing transactions over the phone.
And while these jobs are clearly meant for particularly qualified
welfare recipients, the program is shaking up stereotypes about people
on welfare _ both within the company and, to a growing extent, the white
collar world of finance.
Participants are woven into the fabric of Salomon Smith Barney after
four months of specialized training at a neighborhood center and a
four-month paid internship. The company participates to meet its own
hiring needs _ not to be a good corporate citizen _ and recruits get
very little special treatment.
"In a big company like this one, just being here alone is an
opportunity to make it in life," said Jackie Diaz, 27, who began her
internship in November working in the file room of accounts payable.
Before that, she supported her two daughters with welfare and a midnight
waitressing job.
fl Both the high-powered environment and the work can be intimidating.
Margaret Herndon, hired permanently last year, remembers her internship
in operations, where she executed stock transfers,
fl "I would call Merrill Lynch and ask, 'Does a certain party have
certain shares?' Then I would transfer them," said Herndon, who now
makes $24,500 a year after a 10-year absence from the labor force,
fl "At first I didn't even know what it was," she said. Then it
clicked. "I was like, 'Wow!' when I finally realized what I was doing."
fl Now the firm's parent company, Travelers Group, plans to duplicate
the program with other subsidiaries in Atlanta, Baltimore and Hartford,
Conn. And realizing it can only hire a handful of New York City's
welfare recipients, Salomon approached its competitors on Wall Street
and urged them to create similar programs. Plans are under way with
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and McCann Erickson, an advertising firm, and
others are considering it.
A
�fl The program required a sales job within the company, too, said
Barbara Silvan, vice president for human relations. With publicity
surrounding welfare-to-work at Marriott and Burger King, people assumed
that welfare recipients were "flipping burgers and making beds."
fl "There's a sense ... they wouldn't fit in here," she said.
fl But they have fit in. In three years, 68 percent of the 111 people
who have finished the internship program have been hired into full-time
jobs, and 90 percent of those are still working. Starting salaries range
from $18,500 to $30,000 a year, with the average $24,500.
fl Like other companies, Salomon Smith Barney found the retention rate
higher than normal, and it aims to hire 50 new welfare recipients each
year.
fl No one is promised a job: hiring is based on openings and
performance. Those rejected usually have attendance problems _ not
surprising since attendance is also the No. 1 reason for firings
company-wide.
fl The program was created by Wldcat Service Corp., a 25-year job
training veteran. In 1994, with tough new welfare rules in the
legislative pipeline, Wildcat moved to create a program with stronger
ties to the private sector.
fl At the same time, Smith Barney (not yet merged with Salomon
Brothers) was desperately looking for workers.
fl Together, Wildcat and Smith Barney created a training program using
the same computers and software packages used at the company, as well as
"soft skills" like interviewing, proper attire and the importance of
punctuality.
fl "It's fundamentally different than what job training used to be,"
said Jeff Jablow, who runs the program for Wildcat,
fl But this program isn't for everyone on welfare, Jablow admits.
Wildcat trains hundreds of welfare recipients each year, and only those
with the fewest barriers to work get into the Salomon Smith Barney
program. The company requires a high school degree or an equivalency
certificate, and the Securities and Exchange Commission bars anyone with
a felony conviction.
fl "You need to be strongly motivated to succeed," Jablow said. "It
feels and tastes and smells like a job from the moment they start."
fl Toyce Hampton remembers when she started in 1996, wondering, "What
are they thinking? What kind of person do they think I am?" Then just
two months into her four-month internship, her boss was so pleased with
her work that he offered a permanent job.
fl "I was so excited," she said, "I wanted to cry."
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�Possible State of the Union Welfare Announcements
(1) Caseloads Continue Their Record Declines: Unveil new caseload data showing the welfare
rolls have fallen below 8 million for the first time since 1969 and have fallen nearly 2 million
since last year's State of the Union. The welfare rolls have declined by 43 percent since January
1993, when they stood at 14.1 million, and by 35 percent since their August 1996. The
percentage of the U.S. population on welfare is at its lowest since 1968 -- 2.9 percent.
Number of
people on
welfare
(millions)
Decline
since
taking
office
(#)
(%)
Decline
since
signing
law
(#)
(%)
Oath of Office (1/93)
12.2
11.9
2.2
16%
9.8
4.3
31%
2.4
20%
(%)
.3
2%
1998 State of Union
(9/97 data)
m
1.9
14%
1997 State of Union
(10/96 data)
President's Statements
14.1
Welfare Bill Signing*
(8/96)
Decline
since
prior
SOU
"Today, we are taking an historic
chance to make welfare what it was
meant to be: a second chance, not
a way oflife."
"Now each and every one of us has
to fulfill our responsibility indeed, our moral obligation ~ to
make sure that people who now
must work, can work. Now we
must act to meet a new goal: 2
million more people off the welfare
rolls by the year 2000."
2.1
18%
"Last year, after a record four-year
decline in welfare rolls, 1
challenged our nation to move 2
million more Americans off
welfare by the year 2000. I'm
pleased to report we have also met
that goal, two full years ahead of
schedule."
1.8
6.1
1999 State of Union
8.0**
4.3
18%
43%
35%
(9/98 data)
* These are the actual caseload numbers for August 1996, which were not yet available when the President signed
the bill into law. The President's August 1996 statements were based on May 1996 data.
** The actual figures are just under 8 million (7,986,000).
(2) More Welfare Recipients are Working than Ever Before: Data released December 30th
shows nearly every state is meeting the welfare law's overall work requirement (requiring 25
percent of all welfare families with an adult to work). Data also show the percentage of welfare
recipients working has greatly increased. Since 1992, the percentage of adults on welfare in
direct work activities — employment, work experience, and community service — has tripled,
�rising from 7 percent in 1992 to nearly 22 percent in 1997. Nationwide, 28 percent of all adults
on welfare are participating in direct work activities or other welfare-to-work activities, such as
vocational training, and nearly every state met the law's 25 percent participation rate for FY
1997. (Source: Caseload data reported by the states to HHS.)
Estimates based on Census Bureau data show that 1.5 million individuals who received welfare
in 1997 were working in March 1998. This reflects an impressive 28 percent increase since 1996
in the percentage of people who were on welfare in one year and working the following year from 26.5 percent in 1996 to 33.8 percent in 1998. (Source: HHS calculations of Census Bureau data.)
Census Bureau data also show a dramatic shift towards employment among welfare recipients:
the percentage of single women on welfare who were working increased by 50 percent from
1992 to 1997. In 1992, 40% of single women on welfare had earnings from employment and
60% did not; by 1997, these ratios had switched and 60% of single women on welfare had
earnings from employment while 40% did not. In addition, the Census Bureau data show that
the proportion of single mothers working has increased dramatically since 1992 and the number
of women receiving welfare and not working has decreased dramatically. (Source: Harvard
University Professor Jeffrey B. Liebman's calculations using Census Bureau Current Population Survey data. The
data from 1996 and earlier appeared in Table III of his article "The Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit on
Incentives and Income Distribution" Tax Policy and the Economy, 12, 83-119.)
(3) The Public and Private Sectors Are Hiring from the Welfare Rolls. Announce that the
Welfare to Work Partnership has met the President's challenge to sign up 10,000 businesses, and
(possibly) that federal agencies have met the challenge to hire 10,000 welfare recipients ~ ahead
of the target date of 2000 (we'll know by the first week of January if we've met the federal hiring
goal).
President's Statements
Welfare Bill Signing
(8/96)
"Now that we are saying with this bill we expect work, we have to make sure the
people have a chance to go to work. If we really value work, everybody in this
society - businesses, non-profits, religious institutions, individuals, those in
government -- all have a responsibility to make sure the jobs are there."
1997 State of Union
"To every employer in our country who ever criticized the old welfare system, you
can't blame that old system anymore, we have torn it down. Now do your part. Give
someone on welfare the chance to go to work. Tonight, I am pleased to announce that
five major corporations — Sprint, Monsanto, UPS, Burger King and United Airlines ~
will be the first to join in a new national effort to marshal America's businesses, large
and small, to create jobs so that people can move from welfare to work."
Cabinet Meeting on
Federal Hiring of
Welfare Recipients
(4/10/97)
Announced plan to hire 10,000 welfare recipients in the federal government by the
year 2000, an effort to be led by the Vice President (this announcement was the result
of a Presidential directive issued 3/8/97 for agencies to develop welfare to work hiring
plans).
Welfare to Work
Partnership Launch
(5/20/97)
Announced the Partnership had grown from 5 to 105 companies and set a goal of
achieving 1,000 within a year.
�1998 State of Union
"We still have a lot more to do, all of us, to make welfare reform a success -providing child care, helpinn families move closer to available jobs, challenging more
companies to ioin our welfare-to-work partnership, increasing child support
collections from deadbeat parents who have a duty to support their own children."
Welfare to Work
Partnership
Anniversary
(5/27/98)
Announced the Partnership had grown from 105 to 5,000 companies and that
Partnership companies had hired 135,000 welfare recipients in 1997. The President
challenged the Partnership to double its number of hires and the number of companies
participating. The President also announced that federal government has hired 4,800
people from welfare to work in the last year, of the goal of 10,000 by the year 2000.
(4) We Must do More to Ensure Those Still on the Rolls Go to Work. Announce our proposal
for $1 billion more in Welfare-to-Work funds to help those welfare recipients still on the rolls
who face the greatest challenges get jobs and succeed in the work force. This revised program
will contain a new emphasis on increasing the employment of low income fathers so they can
better meet their responsibilities to their children, with a minimum of $150 million for
Responsible Fatherhood Grants. (See separate one pager for more details.)
�(4) New Resources for Child Support Crackdown. Unveil a new child support law
enforcement initiative to double the number of prosecutions of egregious child support violators
by providing resources to identify, investigate, and prosecute these cases. This effort will be part
ofa challenge to law enforcement in every state to join our national effort to ensure America's
children receive the support that they need and deserve. (See one pager for more details ~ level
of funding is still undecided, so it's unclear if we can pledge to double the number of
prosecutions.)
We may also be able to release new 1998 figures showing additional increases in child support
collections. (We do not have these data yet but are working on getting them by early January.
These data will update our current statistics showing a 68 percent increase in child support
collections since the President took office, which are based on 1992-1997 comparison).
President's Statements
1996 State of the Union
"In particular, 1 challenge the fathers of this country to love and care for their
children. If your family has separated, you must pay your child support. We're doing
more than ever to make sure you do, and we're going to do more, but let's all admit
something about that, too: A check will not substitute for a parent's love and
guidance. And only you ~ only you can make the decision to help raise your
children. No matter who you are, how low or high your station in life, it is the most
basic human duty of every American to do that job to the best of his or her ability."
Welfare Bill Signing
(8/96)
"It's the most sweeping crackdown on deadbeat parents in history....With this bill we
say, if you don't pay the child support you owe we'll garnish your wages, take away
your driver's license, track you across state lines; if necessary, make you work off
what you pay - what you owe. It is a good thing and it will help dramatically to
reduce welfare, increase independence, and reenforce parental responsibility."
1997 State of Union
"In the last four years, we have increased child support collections by 50 percent.
Now we should go further and do better by making it a felony for any parent to cross a
state line in an attempt to flee from this, his or her most sacred obligation."
1998 State of Union
"We still have a lot more to do, all of us, to make welfare reform a success —
providing child care, helping families move closer to available jobs, challenging more
companies to join our welfare-to-work partnership, increasing child support
collections from deadbeat parents who have a dutv to support their own children."
Signing of Deadbeat
Parents Punishment
Act (6/24/98)
"The Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act of 1998 deals with child support evaders in
the most serious cases. From now on if you flee across state lines and refuse to pay
child support you may be charged with a federal offense, a felony offense, and may
land in jail for up to two years. One way or the other people who don't support their
children will pay what they must."
In addition to signing the bill into law, the President announced that a new child
support collection system launched nine months ago has already located one million
delinquent parents and the child support enforcement program established a record 1.3
million paternities in 1997. Overall, 68 percent more child support was collected in
1997 than in 1992.
�(5) Additional Funds for Welfare to Work Housing Vouchers and Welfare to Work
Transportation. The President's budget will contain additional funds for the President's
proposals to help ensure welfare recipients who need to move or obtain transportation in order to
go to work can do so (amounts are still being determined).
President's Statements
1998 State of Union
"For 13 years, Elaine Kinslow of Indianapolis, Indiana, was on and off welfare.
Today, she's a dispatcher with the a van companv. She's saved enough monev
to move her familv into a eood neichborhood. and she's helping other welfare
recipients go to work. Elaine Kinslow and all those like her are the real heroes of the
welfare revolution. There are millions like her all across America. And I'm happy she
could join the First Lady tonight. Elaine, we're very proud of you. Please stand up.
We still have a lot more to do, all of us, to make welfare reform a success ~ providing
child care, helping families move closer to available jobs, challenging more
companies to join our we 1 fare-to-work partnership, increasing child support
collections from deadbeat parents who have a duty to support their own children."
Signing of
Transportation Equity
Act (TEA-21) into law
(6/9/98)
"The Act will expand opportunity. It offers transportation assistance to enable more
Americans to move from welfare to work. If you can't get to work, you can't go to
work."
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Possible State of the Union Welfare Announcements
(1) Caseloads Continue Their Record Declines: Unveil new caseload data showing
the welfare rolls have fallen below 8 million for the first time since 1969 and have
fallen nearly 2 million since last year's State of the Union. The welfare rolls have
declined by 43 percent since January 1993, when they stood at 14.1 million, and
by 35 percent since their August 1996. The percentage of the U.S. population on
welfare is at its lowest since 1968 -- 2.9 percent.
Number of
people on
welfare
(millions)
Oath of Office
(1/93)
Welfare Bill
Decline
since
taking
office
(#)
(%)
Decline
since
signing
law
(#)
(%)
Decline
since
prior
SOU
(#)
(%)
President's Statements
14.1
12.2
1.9
14%
1997 State of
Union (10/96 data)
11.9
2.2
16%
.3
2%
1 9 9 8 State of
Union ( 9 / 9 7 data)
9.8
4.3
31%
2.4
20%
2.1
18%
1 9 9 9 State of
Union ( 9 / 9 8 data)
8.0**
6.1
43%
4.3
35%
"Today, w e are taking an
historic chance t o make
welfare what it was meant t o
be: a second chance, not a
way of life."
" N o w each and every one of
us has to fulfill our
responsibility - indeed, our
moral obligation - t o make
sure that people w h o n o w
must work, can work. N o w
we must act to meet a n e w
goal: 2 million more people
off the welfare rolls by the
year 2 0 0 0 . "
"Last year, after a record
four-year decline in welfare
rolls, 1 challenged our nation
to move 2 million more
Americans off
welfare by the year 2 0 0 0 . I'm
pleased t o report w e have also
met
that goal, t w o full years ahead
of schedule."
1.8
18%
Signing* (8/96)
* These are the actual caseload numbers for August 1996, which were not yet available when the
President signed the bill into law. The President's August 1996 statements were based on May
1996 data.
* * The actual figures are just under 8 million (7,986,000).
�|sou12,18.viyT
(2) More Welfare Recipients are Working than Ever Before: Announce new data
showing nearly every state is meeting the welfare law's overall work requirement
(requiring 25 percent of all welfare families with an adult to work) and that Census
data shows the percentage of people on welfare in one year who were working in
the following year has increased by nearly one-third since 1996, the year the
President signed the welfare reform law.
(3) The Public and Private Sectors Are Hiring from the Welfare Rolls. Announce
that the Welfare to Work Partnership has met the President's challenge to sign up
10,000 businesses, and (possibly) that federal agencies have met the challenge to
hire 1 0 , 0 0 0 welfare recipients - ahead of the target date of 2 0 0 0 (we'll know by
the first week of January if we've met the federal hiring goal).
Welfare Bill Signing
(8/96)
1997 State of
Union
President's Statements
" N o w that we are saying w i t h this bill we expect w o r k , we have to make
sure the people have a chance to go to work. If we really value w o r k ,
everybody in this society - businesses, non-profits, religious institutions,
individuals, those in government -- all have a responsibility to make sure
the jobs are t h e r e . "
"To every employer in our country who ever criticized the old welfare
system, you can't blame that old system anymore, we have torn it d o w n .
Now do your part. Give someone on welfare the chance to go to work.
Tonight, 1 am pleased to announce that five major corporations -- Sprint,
Monsanto, UPS, Burger King and United Airlines -- will be the first to join
in a new national effort to marshal America's businesses, large and small,
to create jobs so that people can move from welfare to w o r k . "
Cabinet Meeting on
Federal Hiring of
Welfare Recipients
(4/10/97)
Welfare to Work
Partnership Launch
(5/20/97)
1998 State of
Union
Announced plan to hire 1 0 , 0 0 0 welfare recipients in the federal
government by the year 2 0 0 0 , an effort to be led by the Vice President
(this announcement was the result of a Presidential directive issued
3/8/97 for agencies to develop welfare to work hiring plans).
Announced the Partnership had grown from 5 to 105 companies and set a
goal of achieving 1,000 within a year.
Welfare to Work
Partnership
Anniversary
(5/27/98)
Announced the Partnership had grown from 105 to 5 , 0 0 0 companies and
that Partnership companies had hired 1 3 5 , 0 0 0 welfare recipients in 1 9 9 7 .
The President challenged the Partnership to double its number of hires and
the number of companies participating. The President also announced
that federal government has hired 4 , 8 0 0 people from welfare to work in
the last year, of the goal of 1 0 , 0 0 0 by the year 2 0 0 0 .
"We still have a lot more to do, all of us, to make welfare reform a
success - providing child care, helping families move closer to available
jobs, challenqinq more companies to join our welfare-to-work partnership,
increasing child support collections from deadbeat parents w h o have a
duty to support their o w n children."
(4) We Must do More to Ensure Those Still on the Rolls Go to Work. Announce our
proposal for $1 billion more in Welfare-to-Work funds to help those welfare
recipients still on the rolls who face the greatest challenges get jobs and succeed in
�I sou 1218.WjDd
the work force. This revised program will contain a new emphasis on increasing
the employment of low income fathers so they can better meet their responsibilities
to their children, with a minimum of $150 million for Responsible Fatherhood
Grants. (See separate one pager for more details.)
Page 3 \
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(4) New Resources for Child Support Crackdown. Unveil a new child support law
enforcement initiative to double the number of prosecutions of egregious child
support violators by providing resources to identify, investigate, and prosecute
these cases. This effort will be part of a challenge to law enforcement in every
state to join our national effort to ensure America's children receive the support
that they need and deserve. (See one pager for more details -- level of funding is
still undecided, so it's unclear if we can pledge to double the number of
prosecutions.)
We may also be able to release new 1998 figures showing additional increases in
child support collections. (We do not have these data yet but are working on
getting them by early January. These data will update our current statistics
showing a 68 percent increase in child support collections since the President took
office, which are based on 1992-1997 comparison).
1996 State of the
Union
Welfare Bill Signing
(8/96)
1 9 9 7 State of
Union
1 9 9 8 State of
Union
President's Statements
"In particular, 1 challenge the fathers of this country to love and care for
their children. If your family has separated, you must pay your child
support. We're doing more than ever to make sure you do, and we're
going to do more, but let's all admit
something about that, t o o : A check will not substitute for a parent's love
and guidance. And only you - only you can make the decision to help
raise your children. No matter w h o you are, h o w low or high your station
in life, it is the most basic human duty of every American to do that job
to the best of his or her ability."
"It's the most sweeping crackdown on deadbeat parents in history....With
this bill we say, if you don't pay the child support you owe we'll garnish
your wages, take away your driver's license, track you across state lines;
if necessary, make you work off what you pay - what you o w e . It is a
good thing and it will help dramatically to reduce welfare, increase
independence, and reenforce parental responsibility."
"In the last four years, we have increased child support collections by 5 0
percent. Now we should go further and do better by making it a felony
for any parent t o cross a state line in an attempt t o flee from this, his or
her most sacred obligation."
"We still have a lot more to do, all of us, to make welfare reform a
success -- providing child care, helping families move closer to available
jobs, challenging more companies to join our welfare-to-work partnership,
increasing child support collections from deadbeat parents w h o have a
duty to support their o w n children."
�jsoulZIS.wp?*
Signing of Deadbeat
Parents Punishment
Act (6/24/98)
Page 51
"The Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act of 1998 deals w i t h child support
evaders in the most serious cases. From now on if you flee across state
lines and refuse to pay child support you may be charged w i t h a federal
offense, a felony offense, and may land in jail for up to t w o years. One
w a y or the other people w h o don't support their children will pay w h a t
they m u s t . "
In addition to signing the bill into law, the President announced that a
new child support collection system launched nine months ago has
already located one million delinquent parents and the child support
enforcement program established a record 1.3 million paternities in 1 9 9 7 .
Overall, 68 percent more child support was collected in 1997 than in
1992.
(5) Additional Funds for Welfare t o Work Housing Vouchers and Welfare to Work
Transportation. The President's budget will contain additional funds for the
President's proposals to help ensure welfare recipients who need to move or obtain
transportation in order to go to work can do so (amounts are still being
determined).
1998 State of
Union
President's Statements
"For 13 years, Elaine Kinslow of Indianapolis, Indiana, was on and off
welfare. Today, she's a dispatcher w i t h the a van company. She's saved
enough money
to move her family into a good neighborhood, and she's helping other
welfare recipients go to work. Elaine Kinslow and all those like her are
the real heroes of the welfare revolution. There are millions like her all
across America. And I'm happy she could join the First Lady tonight.
Elaine, we're very proud of y o u . Please stand up.
We still have a lot more to do, all of us, to make welfare reform a success
- providing child care, helping families move closer to available jobs,
challenging more companies to join our welfare-to-work partnership,
increasing child support collections from deadbeat parents w h o have a
duty to support their o w n children."
Signing of
Transportation
Equity A c t (TEA-21)
into law
(6/9/98)
"The Act will expand opportunity. It offers transportation assistance to
enable more Americans to move from welfare to work. If you can't get to
w o r k , you can't go to w o r k . "
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Welfare-to-Work Reauthorization
In 1997, the President insisted that the Balanced Budget Act provide $1.5 billion a
year in FY 1998 and FY 1999 for states and local communities to help move
long-term welfare recipients in high poverty areas into jobs and help them succeed
in the work force. In order to ensure the success of welfare reform for individuals
who face the greatest challenges, we propose to reauthorize the Welfare-to-Work
program in FY 2 0 0 0 , with several program modifications including a stronger focus
on increasing the employment of low income fathers so they can better meet their
responsibilities to their children. Given current funding constraints, we recommend
reauthorizing the program at $1 billion for FY 2 0 0 0 .
Continuing to Help Those with the Greatest Challenges Get and Keep Jobs
The Welfare-to-Work program funds job creation, job placement and job retention
efforts such as wage subsidies and other critical post-employment support services.
The program targets welfare recipients with the greatest challenges to employment
-- long term recipients with poor work histories, low basic skills, or substance abuse
problems. The program also serves noncustodial parents with barriers to
employment whose children are long term welfare recipients.
Currently, about 75 percent of the Welfare-to-Work funds are allocated to states on
a formula basis, which in turn must pass 85 percent of these funds to local Private
Industry Councils or Workforce Boards. The remaining 25 percent of the funds are
awarded on a competitive basis by the Department of Labor to support innovative
welfare to work projects at a variety of private and public organizations.
In this reauthorization, we propose to retain the program's strong focus on those
most in need by retaining the basic individual eligibility criteria, w i t h some
modifications. We propose to further target funds on areas of need by 1)
committing the Administration to focus competitive grant funds on special high
priority needs, including individuals with substance abuse problems, low
literacy/basic skills, and/or disabilities; 2) doubling the funds set aside for Native
American tribes; and 3) requiring at least 20 percent of formula funds to be used to
help fathers get and keep employment and become financially responsible for their
children.
Stronger Focus on Fathers
Because it is critically important that both parents contribute to the support of their
children, this Administration has launched unprecedented and sustained child
support campaign and in 1997 we collected a record $13.4 billion in child support,
a 68 percent increase since 1 9 9 2 . While every father has a moral obligation to
support their children, some need help getting a job and succeeding in the
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workforce in order to do so. Already, many states are using some of their
Welfare-to-Work funds to help fathers of children on welfare get jobs. Now, we
propose to ensure every state help committed fathers fulfill their obligations to their
children. Under this proposal, states will provide job placement and job retention
assistance to low income fathers who sign personal responsibility contracts
committing them to work and pay child support. States shall commit at least 20
percent of their formula funds (about $1 50 million a year) to helping low income
fathers get and keep jobs and ensuring they support their families. States that wish
to devote more of their formula funds to this population may do so.
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<p>Michael Waldman was Assistant to the President and Director of Speechwriting from 1995-1999. His responsibilities were writing and editing nearly 2,000 speeches, which included four State of the Union speeches and two Inaugural Addresses. From 1993 -1995 he served as Special Assistant to the President for Policy Coordination.</p>
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