Managing Welfare Reform in New York City

by Savas, E. S.; Barnow, Burt S.; Besharov, Douglas J.; Clark, James; Korenman, Sanders; Levine, Arthur L.; Main, Thomas J.; Nightingale, Demetra Smith; O'Neill, June; Satel, Sally; Savas, E S.; Sherwood, Kay E.; Turner, Jason A.; Trutko, John W.

• ISBN13: 9780742549272
• ISBN10: 0742549275
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-13
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Welfare reform was a spectacular success in New York under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and surprising because of the city's history of liberal social programs and its huge, entrenched welfare system. The city reduced the number of people on welfare dramatically from 1,120,000 to 460,000. How did it achieve such success in this unlikely setting? It changed the organizational culture, insisted on work first, adopted information technology, protected against fraud, and contracted for job placement.

Table of Contents

Introduction to welfare reform under Mayor Giuliani	p. 3
Overview of welfare reform	p. 18
Changing the organizational culture	p. 59
Protecting against welfare fraud	p. 85
Managing the welfare system with JobStat	p. 105
Achieving "full engagement"	p. 146
Overcoming opposition and giving work experience to welfare applicants and recipients	p. 171
Epilogue : calculating WEP's costs and monetary benefits	p. 210
Placing welfare applicants and recipients in jobs through performance-based contracting	p. 223
Engaging drug and alcohol abusers	p. 257
Housing the homeless	p. 289
The welfare revolution in New York City	p. 301
Reflections of the commissioner	p. 352
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