That was a program that was looking at transitioning people from welfare to work.
They just send you a check and welfare to work goes back to being plain old welfare.
Tonight, our Welfare to Work Partnership includes 10, 000 companies who have hired hundreds of thousands of people.
Moving benefit recipients from welfare to work, a sound Tory (and indeed Labour) policy, will also be pursued.
Under this policy, governors must commit that their proposals will move at least 20 percent more people -- more people -- from welfare to work.
Some welfare experts fear that Welfare to Work is being oversold.
Bush later heard from three single mothers who made the transition from welfare to work through the help of a program administered by a local church.
Specifically, Governors must commit that their proposals will move at least 20% more people from welfare to work compared to the state's past performance.
That is, simultaneously balancing the budget and encouraging investment while also placing an emphasis on welfare to work, crime prevention and educational programs such as Head Start.
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For example, a minimum wage guarantees a certain income for people who remain in work, but it will hinder the transition from welfare to work by destroying jobs.
The convener also said that reform policies would have a huge impact on Scotland and that "as a starting point for welfare to work we need to have jobs".
He also promised to make it easier for single parents to ease the shift from welfare to work, by aiming to ensure they are better off in employment than on benefit.
"Employers are saying, 'Give us people with the right attitude and job readiness, and we'll take care of the rest, " says Eli Segal, president of the nonprofit Welfare to Work Partnership.
Look at the specific proposals for allowing states that request it more flexibility to implement welfare reform, provided that their proposals will move at least 20 percent more people from welfare to work.
This morning, former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty appeared on ABC and discussed the letter he signed (pdf) along with 28 other Republican Governors asking for more flexibility administering programs that move Americans from welfare to work.
Talking about their experiences at MyPublicServices were projects to ensure that those in nursing homes are looked after with dignity, to help make welfare to work programmes less adversarial and a place to report experiences with police investigations.
The leaders are hoping for progress on issues like increased Internet access, "welfare to work" incentives for the long-term unemployed, cutting red tape, and progress towards a single EU financial market, which would mean cheaper borrowing for firms, better returns for savers and cheaper insurance policies.
Indeed the state of Wisconsin, which increased its budget for child care as part of its drive to persuade welfare mothers to work, has found that much of the extra cash has gone unclaimed: many mothers seem to prefer flexible unpaid arrangements with people their children already know.
The firm is currently the subject of a police investigation into allegations of fraud relating to its welfare-to-work schemes.
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New Labour, for example, committed itself to sticking to the Conservatives' rigid spending plans for the first two years in government and to a welfare-to-work policy - the New Deal - which obliged certain groups of the unemployed to take subsidised work or training in return for their benefits.
But welfare-to-work practitioners say one factor in its success has been a dramatic change in how welfare recipients are prepped for the work force.
When its welfare rewrite became a political issue, HHS then invented a new standard that appears nowhere in its original memorandum and says that 20% more people need to move to work from welfare than before to get a waiver.
What happened there was that people who were on welfare were forced to work.
The jury on the involvement of private welfare-to-work companies is out at the moment.
New spending in some areas, such as the government's welfare-to-work programme, may well be justified.
Ministers have hit back in a row over claims there was "systemic fraud" at welfare-to-work company A4e.
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Some people on the government's welfare-to-work scheme are being inappropriately pushed towards self-employment, the BBC has learned.
Designing a coherent welfare-to-work strategy will be harder, given the number of different departments and committees involved.
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