,The Fiscal and Legal Framework for Creating Community Service Employment Program

The Fiscal and Legal Framework for Creating Community Service Employment Program


 

Publication Date: November 1997

Publisher: Center for Law and Social Policy

Author(s): Maurice Emsellem; Steve Savner

Research Area: Social conditions

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

A community service employment program for TANF recipients--a program to create publicly funded, wage-paying jobs designed to provide employment for individuals and to address unmet community needs--offers a number of potential advantages as compared to other work activities. This paper describes for state legislators and administrators why such a program is both feasible and preferable over an unpaid work experience program under TANF.