But New York City's workfare initiative, the Work Experience Program, which Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has declared will be the largest workfare program in the United States, not only violates many basic rights of welfare recipients, but affects the entire job market as well. The program forces welfare recipients to work without pay and without the possibility of full-time employment or educational opportunities. It drives down wages, increases competition for limited openings between welfare recipients and current paid employees and weakens unions for all workers. Judith Mahoney Pasternak. Robert Cooney, Kate Donnelly, Larry Gara, Carol Jahnkow, Andy Mager, Matt Meyer, Craig Simpson.
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