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• Moving Men Into The Mainstream: The Newark Prisoner Re-Entry Initiative (The Manhattan Institute)
  Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
  Big News Out Of Newark!
  
  
• The Great Welfare Fudge (The Times Of London)
  Monday, July 28th, 2008
  It is a muggy morning in Long Island City, an up-and-coming dormitory suburb of New York. Manhattan is less than a mile away across the East River, its skyline blurred by the misty summer air. Once this was a notorious red-light district with prowling dru
  
  
• Re-Entry A Difficult Road For Former Inmates (InsideBayArea.com)
  Monday, June 23rd, 2008
  When a young African-American woman in her 30s was released from
  
  
• Prison To Work: Cory Booker's Newark Bargain (The NY Post)
  Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
  THE welfare reform of the '90s was the most important so cial-policy change in the United States in recent decades. But it was, in a key way, narrow: It focused on women - that is, on getting welfare mothers into the workforce. But now a successor to
  
  
• Getting Out Of Prison And Into A Job (MSNBC.COM)
  Monday, May 5th, 2008
  Clayton Smalls has come a long way since he was holding up tellers behind bank counters.
  
  
• 'Welfare to work' market will increase
  Thursday, February 28th, 2008
  American and Dutch companies are following their Australian counterparts in targeting Britain’s job
  
  
• Where Are All the Fathers? (The NY Sun)
  Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
  The current crop of presidential candidates, from both major parties, is once again regularly invoking the health and welfare of children as part of their rhetoric.
  
  
• Lessons From America (Progress Magazine)
  Friday, February 1st, 2008
  Despite unprecedented success in reducing unemployment, the British government now faces a clear but complex problem: how to help the significant minority of people seemingly stuck on incapacity, single parent, or unemployment benefit back into sustainabl
  
  
• Elaine Kamarck's just-published The End of Government As We Know It - Making Public Policy Work
  Monday, March 19th, 2007
  ...showing how market-based collection allowed San Francisco to achieve a 52 per cent recycling rate...
  
  
• Sunday Times March 4, 2007
  Sunday, March 4th, 2007
  Isabel Oakeshott, Deputy Political Editor TONY BLAIR is to pay private companies and charities to push the hardcore jobless into work...
  
  
• Peter Cove on Recidivism Reform
  Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
  Can Recidivism Reform Do For Men What Welfare Reform Did For Women?
  
  
• The Detroit News
  Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
  Locals swamp evacuee job fair...
  
  
• New York Post "Myth of Rehab"
  Sunday, April 24th, 2005
  Rethinking rehabilitation: Why can't we reform our criminals?
  
  
• Public Finance (external link)
  Friday, July 13th, 2001
  successful private company has transformed US welfare-to-work schemes and still made a profit...
  
  
• USA Today (external link)
  Wednesday, May 30th, 2001
  Prison nation turns its back on released convicts...
  
  
• Daily News
  Sunday, September 15th, 1996
  Off welfare & onto jobs. No more handouts...
  
  
• USA Today 2
  Monday, January 24th, 1994
  Guilani, Cuomo join forces to tackle welfare...
  
  
• Wall Street Journal (1)
  Monday, January 3rd, 1994
  Back To Work, With the Labor Day holiday over, and summer unoffically at a close...
  
  
• Wall Street Journal (2)
  Monday, January 6th, 1992
  Teaching Job-Hunting Basics to Trim Welfare Rolls...
  
  
• New York Magazine
  Monday, January 1st, 1990
  Turning a profit on welfare...
  
  
• The New Democrat (article by Dr. Lee Bowes)
  Monday, January 1st, 1990
  The Training Trap, Research shows the best path from welfare to work is a straight line...