EXPECTATIONS AND WELFARE WORK: WIN IN NEW YORK CITY

Lawrence M. Mead

Review of Policy Research, 1983, vol. 2, issue 4, 648-662

Abstract: Work requirements for welfare recipients have done l i t t l e to reduce the welfare rolls. The usual explanation that limited skills and openings prevent recipients working is unpersuasive, since low‐skilled work seems to be quite widely available. This study of the Work Incentive (WIN) program, the main welfare work program, in New York City found that whether recipients work depends mainly on whether WIN seriously expects them to. Thus, the welfare work problem is more political than economic. It lies in our reluctance to obligate recipients to function socially as we would other people.

Date: 1983
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