Institute for Policy Reserach News, Northwestern University

Summer Welfare-to-Work VISTA Conference

Summer 2002, Volume 23, Number 1

IPR faculty Greg Duncan, Fay Lomax Cook, and James Rosenbaum are planning and participating in a VISTA conference on Welfare-to-Work that will be held at Northwestern’s Evanston campus July 29-31. The meetings will assemble VISTA volunteers, project directors, and scholars to exchange knowledge about macro-and micro-level approaches to welfare-to-work over the past five years. Participants will focus on the impact of welfare reform on work opportunities and families and the role of educational and training programs.