A new General Accounting Office report on the issue will be released at that hearing, adding to the growing body of evidence on the role of employment in determining the economic well-being of welfare leavers. The Urban Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan policy research organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1968. Its objectives are to sharpen thinking about society's problems and efforts to solve them, improve government decisions and their implementation, and increase citizen awareness about important public choices. Assessing the New Federalism is a multi-year Urban Institute project designed to analyze the devolution of responsibility for social programs from the federal government to the states. The project analyzes changes in income support, social services, and health programs.
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