Worker Advancement | Press

Real Work, a Paycheck, and Education Lead to Success for Welfare Parents

04.16.2002 | EOI | Washington's Community Jobs program to be showcased in Washington D.C., as Congress takes up welfare reform legislation. | Read

The Raging Wage Debate

04.15.2002 | Tacoma News Tribune | After working her entire career in the grocery industry, Linda Murdock suffered a triple whammy that would derail most people. She became pregnant, and during her seventh month of the pregnancy, she had a heart attack. | Read

Labor Day is a good time to celebrate statewide success of welfare reform

08.01.2000 | Tacoma News Tribune | As Americans, we share bedrock values of work and family. And the new welfare enables us to honor those values, by creating pathways to jobs and wage ladders, while ensuring some amount of family security. The Community Jobs program is one of the shining new examples of welfare reform. | Read

Welfare-to-work program called resounding success

09.27.2000 | Seattle Times | They are among the hardest to employ, single parents without a high-school diploma, unable to leave welfare because of drug abuse, domestic violence or physical disabilities. But under Community Jobs, a special welfare-to-work program, they are earning far more money than the thousands of welfare recipients being nudged off public assistance, according to a report released yesterday by the Economic Opportunity Institute, a nonpartisan public-policy institute. | Read

State Releases Community Jobs Evaluation

09.26.2000 | EOI | Successful program moves hard to employ people from welfare to work. | Read

Community Jobs and Welfare-to-Work Participants Move into Private Sector

05.04.2000 | EOI | Pierce County honors dozens of CJ and welfare-to-work participants. | Read