FIELD – Welfare to Work

Research Report No. 3 – Microenterprise as a Welfare to Work Strategy: Two-Year Findings

This third and final report on FIELD’s Welfare to Work Learning Assessment describes outcomes experienced two years after TANF clients enrolled in microenterprise programs.

November 1, 2003

Research Report No. 2 – Microenterprise as a Welfare to Work Strategy: One-Year Findings

This paper presents the findings at the mid-point of FIELD’s Welfare to Work Learning Assessment one year after TANF clients enrolled in microenterprise programs.

October 1, 2002

Research Brief No. 2 – Improving the Climate for Self-Employment: Recommendations for TANF Reauthorization

This research brief presents the findings from one-year outcomes experienced by TANF recipients who pursued self-employment and highlights the policy context and issues they confronted when preparing for and engaging in self-employment.

April 1, 2002

Research Report No. 1 – Microenterprise as a Welfare to Work Strategy: Client Characteristics

This report on FIELD’s Welfare to Work Learning Assessment summarizes findings from the first wave of TANF clients enrolled in microenterprise programs.

July 1, 2001

Research Brief No. 1 – Microenterprise as a Welfare to Work Strategy: Client Characteristics

This research brief on FIELD’s Welfare to Work Learning Assessment summarizes findings from the first wave of TANF clients enrolled in microenterprise programs.

May 1, 2001

FIELD Forum Issue 7 – Recruiting, Assessing, and Screening TANF Recipients

This issue explores the challenges of recruiting TANF recipients to microenterprise programs and describes the assessment and screening components used to help clients determine whether self-employment is a sound option given the current time-limited welfare system.

October 1, 2000

FIELD Forum Issue 3 – Designing Microenterprise Programs for Welfare Recipients

This issue profiles the projects participating in the Welfare to Work grant cluster and describes some of the challenges posed by welfare reform laws.

January 1, 2000