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Article: Britain, reforming welfare, looks to Wisconsin Visiting officials see how New Hope Project helps poor get into work
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 19, 1998
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British welfare officials visited Milwaukee Wednesday to learn
what they can borrow from Wisconsin's other welfare experiment, the
New Hope Project.
In part because it has a head start on the vaunted Wisconsin Works
(W-2) plan, New Hope offers Britain's ruling Labor Party a peek at
how welfare reform policies and how they're implemented can affect
poor families.
"Clearly, both approaches have their place," Keith Bradley,
undersecretary of state for social security in the Labor government,
said of the New Hope and W-2 projects. "We want to learn best
practices from both of them."
Bradley, a member of Parliament and the government's spokesman on
welfare matters in the House of Commons, ...