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States of Change: Policies and Programs to Promote Low-Wage Workers' Steady Employment and Advancement
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States of Change: Policies and Programs to Promote Low-Wage Workers' Steady Employment and Advancement
Publication year:
2001
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The "efforts of several states that have taken advantage of devolved federal authority and the flexibility of the welfare reform legislation to create new state policies and strategies to support low-income individuals as they work" are reviewed (p. 5-6). Sections of this report include: the challenges of steady work and better jobs -- from welfare to the low-wage workforce; improving the odds for low-wage workers; the opportunity to change state policy regarding the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grants and the Workforce Investment Act (WIA); what states and localities can do outside to TANF cash assistance program to aid low-wage workers; state policy actions to increase low-wage workers' income; key elements of retention and advancement programs; retention and advancement -- what is happening; the challenges of retention and advancement; moving ahead; and moving farther.