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Project Description

Based on focus groups convened with welfare recipients in Northern, Central and Southern California, this report gives voice to women' s experiences with welfare reform two years into their time clocks. The report reveals that women are not getting the individualized treatment they need to move into jobs that will enable them to be self-sufficient. Instead they experience difficulties getting information about available services, overloaded caseworkers, skeptical employers and pressure to take temporary, low-wage jobs. The Broken Promise offers recommendations to the Legislature, state and county administrators, advocates and the media to make welfare-to-work "work".

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Sites studied include Pasadena (Los Angeles Co., CA);
Visalia (Tulare Co., CA);
and
Sacramento (Sacramento Co., CA)

Sample Characteristics and Sites Studied

Focus groups were conducted to get qualitative as opposed to quantitative info. Six focus groups were conducted in all, two in each county. Focus groups ranged in size from 5-12 participants. One group in each county was single-race: Tulare--Latina; Los Angeles--African-American; Sacramento-- Asian-American

Recent Findings in Brief

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