 | Reforming Welfare by Rewarding Work: One State’s Successful Experiment Subjects: Public welfare -- Minnesota; Welfare recipients -- Minnesota -- Case studies; Welfare recipients -- Employment -- Minnesota -- Case studies; In the late 1980s, Governor Rudy Perpich gathered a group of citizen experts to redesign MinnesotaOCOs welfare system, and a burst of innovation resulted in the groundbreaking and successful pilot Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP). Reforming Welfare by Rewarding Work intertwines MFIPOCOs development with harrowingOCoand enlighteningOCofirsthand accounts of three familiesOCO experiences on welfare, and asserts that a true antipoverty program is crucialOCoand achievableOCoin America." |
