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MDRC has released a "Fast Fact" with the researched answer to the following question:

What Is the Best Way to Move Welfare Recipients into Work? 1) Help welfare recipients find jobs quickly? or 2) Enroll welfare recipients in education or training programs before they look for jobs?

Nearly two decades of highly credible research using random assignment methods demonstrates that neither approach alone works best to increase welfare recipients' employment and earnings and to reduce their welfare receipt. Instead, the most effective strategy is to employ a combination of the two — a "mixed" approach. *

See http://www.mdrc.org/area_fact_18.html for a brief summary and a link to a seven-minute online video about the research.

The summary report of the research can be found at http://www.mdrc.org/publications/52/summary.html

From: djgbrian@utk.edu
Subject: [NIFL-WORKPLACE] Best way to move welfare recipients into work
Date: July 6, 2005 2:56:58 PM EDT
To: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov

* [Note: the research is based on participants enrolled in mandatory, not voluntary programs. Also, the education programs in the mixed approach models, it was found, should be work/employment-related. David J. Rosen, 7.12.05]