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Welfare Reform and Community Colleges: A Policy and Research Context. MDRC Working Paper.
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Brock, Thomas; Matus-Grossman, Lisa; Hamilton, Gayle – 2002
This paper reports on the state of welfare after the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) passed by Congress in 1996. The National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies (NEWWS) is a federally initiated study that explores the questions of what works best and for whom. NEWWS evaluated seven areas across the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Colleges, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged