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Article: Public-service employment programs in selected OECD countries.
- Article from:
- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2000
- Author:
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Public-service employment programs play an important role in many OECD countries; they may be the only effective way to aid those among the long-term unemployed who are less skilled and less well educated
The enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act in 1996 transformed the U.S. welfare system into a work-based one. The Act requires most recipients to either find work or lose welfare benefits after not more than 2 consecutive years on welfare. Many former welfare recipients are finding jobs in the private sector; one study of nine States found that between 50 percent and 70 percent of former welfare recipients are working.(1) ...