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Getting Wisconsin to work
Author(s) -
Rogers Jean
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0270.00170
Subject(s) - work (physics) , welfare , politics , state (computer science) , cash , welfare state , public administration , welfare reform , political science , sociology , economic growth , engineering , economics , law , finance , mechanical engineering , algorithm , computer science
Since the mid‐1980s the state of Wisconsin has been pre‐eminent in the field of welfare reform. With a consensus across the political spectrum, the state has pioneered a series of bold and innovative programmes which have slashed cash assistance by $30 million a month, compared with 1987 levels, and reduced its caseload by 85%. The latest programme, Wisconsin Works, is known as W‐2, and is widely regarded as the most successful of the many welfare‐to‐work initiatives which have appeared throughout the USA.