This failure occurs both for an external measure that is not contaminated with response errors and for self-reports. But response errors, which are not considered in the models we have found in the literature, substantially worsen matters. Welfare Recipients David H. Greenberg, Charles Michalopoulos, Philip K. Robins, and Robert Wood RPT 731. This paper describes five new welfare reform programs being tested in six areas of the United States and Canada. These programs all use financial incentives to encourage selfsufficiency among welfare recipients.
Some programs also provide employment and training services.
The simulation results suggest that SSP and MFIP will modestly increase the number of welfare recipients who work. However, because SSP has a fulltime work requirement and MFIP does not, only SSP is predicted to generate an increase in fulltime employment. Minorities in Rural Society Gene F. Summers RPT 730. 1995. The challenge in addressing rural poverty is to discover why a poverty class persists and why rural minorities are so disproportionately represented in it. This article calls attention to seven barriers to achieving a clearer understanding of poverty among rural minorities.