Why don't they just get a job?
Subtitle: one couple's mission to end poverty in their community
By: Liane Phillips and Echo Montgomery Garrett
Contributors: Garrett, Echo Montgomery, author
Edition: Revised edition.
Publisher: Aha! Process
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Highlands, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781938248818
Subjects: Social work with the unemployed; Case studies; Poverty; Unemployment; Homelessness; Homeless Persons; Social Work; Cincinnati Works (Organization)
Description: "Holistic, collaborative, results-driven - those efforts became Cincinnati Works, a nonprofit, member based organization hailed by businesses, agencies, communities, funders, and other nonprofits as the most revolutionary and repeatable program anywhere. The model is now being considered by many communities across the country as the best-of-the-best-practices for creating win-win solutions for people in poverty and for businesses that need qualified entry-level workers. A few highlights of the program: an 80+% job retention rate versus 20-25% for government funded programs; per person costs a fraction of other programs that don't provide retention follow-up; businesses save thousand of dollars in retention costs by hiring members; thousands of individuals moved from poverty to self-sufficiency through work; millions of tax dollars saved in public assistance and welfare programs"--Page 4 of cover
Notes: Includes index.