At Dallas-Fort Worth, airport employers including UPS, worked with federal and local partners to form a Work Coalition to address welfare to work needs. These are exactly the kind of public-private partnerships that are necessary if we are to move people from the dependence of welfare rolls to the independence of payrolls. Mr. Eli Segal and the Welfare to Work Partnership have done an outstanding job of bringing the private sector into these partnerships. I want to challenge every employer to follow these shining examples. Get involved with your community's applications for the Department of Transportation's Job Access and Reverse Commute program.
Applications require a broad collaborative planning process.
If employers work with their communities to invest in the needed transportation services, they can leverage their funds effectively. It is about getting parents to training and to work, getting children to day care, moving families from the dependence of welfare rolls to the independence of payrolls. I know our best days are yet to come.