Any job is a step up

From an AEI video, an expert in poverty program administration from New York City.

Four lessons learned in fighting poverty that informed 1990's reform of welfare. Notes from the presentation.

Require work.

Reward work.

Two parent family.

Grow the economy.

Any job is a step up.

1.1 million on welfare (in New York) plunges to 300,000.
Work rate for never married mothers went from 43% to 63%.
Child Poverty in NYC went from 43% to 28%.
African-American child poverty in US dropped from 44% in 1994 to 30% in 2001.

Government can't deliver on promises. Only people can deliver on promises.