Workforce Development

Worksource

A system dedicated to helping people find jobs, employers find workers, and supporting all efforts that go into creating and developing a talented workforce in Travis County.

The Pew Center for the States Welfare Reform Web Page

Good source of national and state data, links to other resources, and relevant news stories.

Does Work Pay? An Analysis of the Work Incentives under TANF

A report of the Urban Institute. "......Even low wage jobs lift many welfare families above the poverty line..."

W. K. Kellogg Foundation Devolution Survey on Healthcare and Welfare Reform

W.K. Kellogg Foundation major survey on public attitudes toward welfare reform and the nations healthcare system.

Poverty Amid Plenty: The Unfinished Business of Welfare Reform Report

In collaboration with the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, the Daughters of Charity United States Provinces, the Federation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph and Pax Christi USA, NETWORK recently completed a major 10-state study (CA, FL, IL, MA, MI, NJ, NY, OH, PA, and TX) of the effects of welfare reform. The Welfare Reform Watch Project has found an identifiable increase in suffering and deprivation among people who no longer receive government assistance. The documentation is published in a new report entitled Poverty Amid Plenty: The Unfinished Business of Welfare Reform.