America Works is the only 100% performance-based organization placing welfare recipients in jobs. It produces job placement, not dead end education and training efforts. This strategy saves taxpayers money. One reason it is popular with those on both sides of the political aisle.

Government Benefits

Guaranteed Success - America Works invests its private dollars to set up and maintain its business while selling its services to area employers who hire the welfare recipients. Government incurs no expense until America Works places a welfare recipient in a job. Furthermore, America Works must see that a job holder is employed at least six months. Only then is America Works fully paid by Government.

Retention - Calculated conservatively, it costs about $15,000 a year to maintain a family of three on welfare; thus, the one-time fee charged by America Works is a genuine bargain. This is particularly the case when retention rates are factored in. For America Works these amount to approximately 80 percent after two years. No other program in the country has had America Works' high levels of success in finding quality jobs and retaining workers in those jobs.

Cost Savings - Policy benefits of using America Works are many: the Government gets what it pays for; outcomes, not outputs. America Works has had much greater success in meeting the challenge of placing and keeping someone in a private sector job than have traditional educational and training programs. Further, the burden of responsibility and substantial costs are shifted to the private sector.

Bring America Works to your community!

1. Visit America Works or invite us to your community to discuss how we can start operating quickly in your area.

2. Designate Block Grant and JTPA funding streams to pay for our services.

3. Support fully performance-based programs that stress jobs and retention.

4. Reinvest the savings you accumulate from these and watch a competitive market place of intermediary placement organizations develop.