Welfare-to-Work Study Flawed, Group Says
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A coalition of advocates for the poor Friday said a much-publicized study that touts the success in Los Angeles County of a welfare-to-work program was flawed.
Representatives of the Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness said that the study, by the Manpower Research Development Corp., ignored the fact that most of the jobs being filled by welfare recipients pay low wages.
“People the study deemed successful were making an average of $214 a month,” said Muneer Ahmad, an attorney for the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, during a Boyle Heights news conference.
Under the county’s GAIN program, or Greater Avenues for Independence, recipients are pushed by the county to find jobs quickly.
County officials say the program will improve as it is fine-tuned.
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