I Want to Make It On My Own
A Qualitative Assessment of How New Jersey’s Welfare and Workforce Development Programs Can Better Perform their Core Mission of Moving People from Welfare to Sustainable Work
The Poverty Research Institute undertook this qualitative research study to determine - through 125 in-depth interviews of welfare recipients, caseworkers and county-based senior staff in welfare agencies and One-Stops - how the Work First New Jersey mission of moving welfare recipients toward work and economic self-sufficiency might be better achieved.