You See What I'm Saying? Current and Former TANF Recipients Talk About Being on Welfare

Apr 01, 2002 | by
  • Description

In this publication, Chicago Jobs Council gives voice to the people behind the numbers. The following pages hold the experiences and ideas of 31 women, current and former TANF recipients and their providers of employment services, who participated in five focus groups CJC conducted in the Fall of 2001. Their thoughts reflect their perspectives as short or long-term welfare recipients, and as women of various ages, backgrounds, races, ethnicities, and languages. Their remarks, largely unedited, are collected here so that you will give them serious consideration in your own welfare advocacy or policy-making. See what they are saying. This is welfare as they know it.