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Article: New agency shifts priorities to jobs. (welfare reform of Cuyahoga County, OH)
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- Crain's Cleveland Business
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- December 22, 1997
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The Cuyahoga County commissioners will strip down one county agency and will create another to spearhead the county's drive to get welfare recipients off public assistance and onto payrolls.
Beginning Jan. 5, about 27,000 recipients of Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) will be shifted from the county's traditional welfare agency to the as-yet-unnamed agency, which was created specifically to meet the job-seeking requirements of national and state welfare reforms.
"We can't do this with the old agency, because the whole picture has changed from one of entitlements to one of employment," said Commissioner Timothy Hagan. "This is the most significant change ...