title: The challenge of moving from welfare to work.
abstract: Despite overall low unemployment rates in 1996, various subgroups of the population had rates much higher than the average. This brief article considers the labor market profile of welfare recipients and examines the unemployment and underemployment rates of groups with similar demographic characteristics. In some cases, such rates are three and four times the overall national average.
authors.affiliation: Economic Policy Institute, Washington, DC 20036, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bernstein
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational / Q000639:trends*; D012737:Sex Factors; D012946:Social Welfare / Q000639:trends*; D014478:Unemployment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States