Wisconsin’s welfare-to-work program W-2 is considered a national model for reducing welfare rolls and helping poor families enter the workforce.But there’s a core group of welfare recipients the program can’t seem to help.Yesterday, a legislative committee looking for ways to improve W-2 got advice from a welfare expert on how to solve that problem. Gil Halsted reports…
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