Work tests for welfare recipients: The gap between the goal and the reality

Charles S. Rodgers

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1982, vol. 1, issue 1, 5-17

Abstract: In the past, work tests have largely failed to reduce the rising cost of welfare programs. Part of the reason has been a slippage between the objective and the way it has been implemented. The slippage, according to one major study, has been due to a number of causes: a failure to translate the objective into operating rules consistent with the objective; the difficulties of enforcing the requirement in the field; and the unwillingness to penalize innocent dependents of uncooperative welfare recipients. But more effective implementation may be possible through a number of measures.

Date: 1982
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