Running Out of Time: Voices of Parents Struggling to Move from Welfare to Work
July 1, 2002 / By Daniel Flaming, Patricia Kwon and Patrick Burns / Economic Roundtable
How do people change their lives? What kinds of help do working poor parents need to lift their families out of poverty? What obstacles do they face in trying to get a sustaining job? More than eight thousand people answered these questions through a survey undertaken to learn directly from working welfare parents and other poor families about the problems they face and the kinds of help they need to become self-sufficient.