Moving People from Welfare to Work: Lessons from the National Evaluation of Welfare to Work Strategies

Exceptional for its large scale, long follow-up period, and rigorous research design, the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies (NEWWS) has yielded a trove of hard evidence about how best to help people get off welfare and into jobs. Concise and accessible, "Moving People from Welfare to Work: Lessons from NEWWS" distills the evaluation's key findings and explores their implications for policy as Congressional debate about reauthorizing the 1996 federal welfare reform law moves into high gear. This final product from NEWWS helps shed light on what level of work participation can be realistically required of welfare recipients, whether assigning people to education and training is effective, and how various program approaches affect outcomes ranging from employment and welfare receipt to family circumstances and children's well-being.