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Article: The promise of New Hope
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- July 3, 2003
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The promise of New Hope
By STANFORD
Thursday, July 3, 2003
In the 1990s, when the nation was contemplating alternatives to
traditional welfare, Milwaukee went beyond contemplation and actually
put into motion a pilot, work-oriented assistance program dubbed the
New Hope Project. The test ran just four years -- from 1994 to '98 --
but the research findings continue to stream in.
The latest show that even five years afterward, the program
continues to benefit children. Kids whose parents enrolled in New
Hope are still doing better in school and behaving better in general
than are their playmates from low-income families.
Wisconsin Works, the program that replaced Aid to Families with
Dependent ...