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    "ocrText": "the Amour have fr at A\nst cathi\nhave\nX\nTT: I applant POTUS 58%\nReduce volls invis bn\nBC in hest ,000,000 4 years\n24 years\nx 1\n#\nHave B 4090 to have challege anextru\nPHOTOCOPY\nPRESERVATION\n-chunge of to make go its part Cord\naporaty povaty\n1 nots mypeant\" we 10,000 must contrations\n%\nh\n/ inneraty Georgia 80% 5070 8 it\nstudy held adult by lowineon u\nsubmb\nWELFARE TO WORK\nMay 20, 1997\nThe Welfare to Work Partnership\nToday President Clinton announced that over 100 companies have accepted his State of\nthe Union challenge to forge \"a new national effort to marshal America's businesses, large and\nsmall, to create jobs so that people can move from welfare to work.\" CEOs and senior executives\nfrom the companies joined the President to launch the Welfare to Work Partnership, a private,\nnon-profit organization which will lead the national business effort to hire people from the\nwelfare rolls. The Partnership pledged to enlist 1,000 companies within the next six months and\nnamed United Airlines Corporation CEO Gerald Greenwald its Chairman of the Board.\nThe Welfare to Work Partnership is an independent, nonpartisan, national effort of the\nAmerican business community to help move those on public assistance into jobs in the private\nsector. The Partnership will provide information, technical assistance, and support for all\ninterested companies. The Partnership was formed in response to the President's challenge in his\n1997 State of the Union speech, and the CEOs from the five companies the President noted in\nthat speech -- Sprint, Monsanto, UPS, Burger King, and United Airlines -- form the Partnership's\nBoard of Directors. Since signing the welfare law last August, the President has launched an\naggressive campaign to challenge both the public and private sector to help welfare reform\nsucceed. The President signaled his commitment to work with the corporate community by\nholding a White House meeting with 14 company CEOs in January 1997. After that meeting five\ncompanies made a commitment to lead a national welfare to work effort.\nThe President's Welfare to Work Transportation Initiative\nCiting transportation as one of the biggest barriers in moving from welfare to work,\nPresident Clinton today announced grants to 24 states to develop strategies to solve this problem.\nThe President urged Congress to enact his $600 million welfare to work transportation initiative,\npart of his NEXTEA transportation proposal.\nTwo-thirds of new jobs are in the suburbs, but three of four welfare recipients live in rural\nareas or central cities. Only six percent of welfare recipients own cars, and public transit often\nprovides inadequate connections to job and training centers. To combat this problem, the\nPresident today urged Congress to adopt the six-year, $600 million grant program in his\nNEXTEA transportation bill that would support flexible, innovative transportation systems in\nrural, urban, and suburban areas to get people where the jobs are. Today, the President also\nannounced grants to 24 states and the Virgin Islands to develop welfare to work transportation\nplans. The grants are being awarded by the Department of Transportation's Federal Transit\nAdministration and the Federal Highway Administration in cooperation with the National\nGovernors' Association.\nA Balanced Budget that Helps Move People from Welfare to Work\nThe President praised the new budget agreement which includes two critical welfare to\nwork initiatives. The first is a $3 billion Welfare to Work fund for cities and states to create job\nopportunities for welfare recipients. This proposal, a centerpiece of the President's second-term\nagenda, will help move one million adults from welfare to work. The budget agreement also\nincludes the President's proposed enhanced tax credit which would give companies that hire\nlong-term welfare recipients a 50% tax credit on the first $10,000 of wages paid over two years.\nVice Presidential Initiatives\nTo ensure that former welfare recipients succeed in the workplace, Vice President Gore\ntoday announced a new campaign, beginning with a conference on May 29th, to help those\nleaving welfare retain jobs.\nIn addition to this new campaign, the Vice President is overseeing the federal\ngovernment's hiring initiative. The President has committed the federal government, the nation's\nlargest employer, to do its part to hire people from the welfare rolls. On April 10th the President\nheld the first full Cabinet meeting of his second term in which federal agencies pledged to directly\nhire at least 10,000 welfare recipients over the next four years.\nToday's Program\nThe President was joined today by the Vice President, Mr. Greenwald, Partnership\nPresident Eli J. Segal, Delaware Governor Tom Carper, Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson,\nand small business owner George R. Stinson of Racine, Wisconsin, whose company workforce is\nmore than half former welfare recipients.\nThe Welfare to Work Partnership\n1250 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 610\nWashington, DC 20036-2603\nAll About The Partnership\nWelfare to Work is a Smart Solution for Business.\nAt a time when many businesses are facing a critical shortage of workers, a new, non-traditional source of employees is being\ndiscovered in communities across the country. With the advent of welfare reform, nearly four million people will be exiting the\nwelfare system and looking for gainful employment to improve their lives. With America in the midst of a sustained recovery and the\nbest economic conditions in 30 years, what better time to bring together the mutual interests of business and people needing to find\nemployment? Welfare to Work is a smart solution for business.\nA New, National Initiative to Move People from Welfare to Work\nThe Welfare to Work Partnership (The Partnership) was launched on May 20,1997 at the White House by President Clinton,\nGovernors Tommy Thompson (R-WI) and Tom Carper (D-DE) and over 100 participating businesses. This newly formed, national,\nnonpartisan, not-for-profit organization was created to encourage and assist businesses hiring individuals from public assistance\nwithout displacing current workers. Founded by United Airlines, UPS, Burger King, Monsanto and Sprint, The Partnership is focused\non supporting small, medium and large businesses hiring former welfare recipients.\nExpanding the American Workforce for Greater Productivity\nFinding workers to sustain the growth of American businesses is becoming one of the most crucial concerns of business owners and\nmanagers all across the United States. The large pool of workers within the welfare system can be recruited and trained to fill many\nentry-level jobs as well as other positions that are currently going unfilled. Businesses that hire former welfare recipients have\nexperienced higher retention, lower turnover and have reaped the benefits of hiring workers that are trainable and ready to work. New\ntax incentives offer additional encouragement to hire people from public assistance.\nWelfare Recipients - A New Source of Workers for U.S. Businesses\nMany welfare recipients are work-ready or nearly work-ready. According to the Urban Institute, over two-thirds of women on welfare\nhad recent work experience before applying for public assistance. In fact, on average, the Urban Institute found that welfare mothers--\ntypically the family bread winner for the nearly 4 million families receiving assistance--have over four years of work experience. The\naverage age of adult recipients is 31 years and families receiving cash assistance have an average of two children. Welfare recipients\nare from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds: 36 percent are white; 37 percent are African-American; and 21 percent are\nHispanic. Employers are already tapping into the welfare roles for workforce development. Since the welfare law was passed in\nAugust of 1996, welfare roles have declined by 1.2 million individuals. With job readiness training, placement opportunities, and\nfollow-up retention services, individuals currently receiving welfare assistance can become productive and valuable employees further\nexpanding the American economy.\nBuilding a National Welfare to Work Network\nThe Partnership is building a network of Business Partners with experience hiring former welfare recipients and/or pledging to hire at\nleast one person from welfare. Through our network, businesses can convey successes as well as the challenges of having employed\nindividuals from public assistance so that others may learn from them. Business leaders can serve as mentors to those without\nexperience at hiring people from welfare. Regardless of size and type, businesses participating in The Partnership will be encouraged\nand provided with assistance and tools to aid them in hiring welfare recipients. There are no dues or fees to participate and be\nrecognized.\nThe Partnership recognizes that most businesses will need help hiring people from public assistance. In order to support its expanding\nnetwork of businesses, The Partnership is building a database of organizations, often referred to as service providers, to offer such\nassistance. Qualified and capable service providers can make the task easier for businesses seeking to hire former welfare recipients.\nA national network of businesses and service providers can learn from each other, exchange ideas, and communicate the promise and\nthe challenge of welfare to work efforts for greater success.\nProviding Technical Assistance and Support\nThe Partnership supports its network of Business Partners with technical information including a \"Blueprint for Business\" manual that\nserves as a guide for finding, recruiting, training, hiring and retaining former welfare recipients. The Partnership will also publish a\ndirectory of Business Partners and a database of service providers to facilitate business-to-business connections. Additional\npublications will include a newsletter, fax updates, and other materials as they are developed. Much of this information will be made\navailable through The Partnership's World Wide Web site, www.welfaretowork.org.\nBusiness to business education, communication and interaction will help owners and managers avoid the risks of hiring welfare\nrecipients and promote successful employment practices. Special seminars and community events will be announced to provide\nadditional training, support and guidance. Exceptional businesses, service providers, and communities will be recognized for their\nefforts at award ceremonies recognizing their leadership, success and creativity within the welfare to work initiative.\nProvide Leadership and Encourage Corporate Social Responsibility\nParticipation in the welfare to work initiative signals a corporate willingness to strengthen American families and communities.\nConstructively engaged, productive employees provide healthy family environments and contribute to safer and more successful\ncommunities in which to grow and expand businesses. The Partnership will air public service announcements from time to time to\nfurther motivate and engage businesses in the welfare to work initiative. Owners and managers will be encouraged to become\nBusiness Partners and learn more about how to successfully hire welfare recipients.\nBecoming a Business Partner in The Welfare to Work Partnership demonstrates your support for this effort. Private sector employers\ncan learn from each other and help meet the challenge of expanding America's workforce and further grow their business capacity at\nthe same time.\nNational Scope with a Community Focus\nThe Partnership is national in scope with a mission to promote and engage businesses across the country in the welfare to work\ninitiative. At the same time, The Partnership recognizes that jobs are created and filled locally. And so, The Partnership serves as a\ncatalyst to communities seeking to participate in the national welfare to work effort.\nMetropolitan areas, cities of all sizes as well as smaller communities and rural areas will be challenged to confront the demand for\nmore workers and the need to find jobs for people on welfare. Key stakeholders will be encouraged to join together in local efforts to\nexpand welfare to work opportunities. Together, they support local businesses hiring local people.\nWelfare to Work is Good for You and Your Business! It is a Smart Solution!\nThe Welfare to Work Partnership is located in Washington, DC. Its President, Eli J. Segal, manages its staff and guides its operations\nwithin the mission and objectives established by the Board of Directors made up entirely of private sector CEO's and business owners.\nFor more information, please contact Lisa Dawe, Business Outreach, at The Partnership office.\nThe Welfare to Work Partnership\nTelephone\n202/955-3005\n1250 Connecticut Avenue NW\nFax\n202/637-9195\nSuite 610\nWeb Site:\nwww.welfaretowork.org\nWashington, DC 20036-2603\nE-mail\[email protected]\n2\nThe Welfare to Work Partnership\nFrequently Asked Questions\nWhat is The Welfare to Work Partnership?\nThe Partnership is a national, independent, nonpartisan effort of the business community to help move\npeople on public assistance to jobs in the private sector. The Partnership will concentrate on energizing the\nbusiness community to hire and retain welfare recipients without displacement of existing workers. The\nPartnership provides information, technical assistance and support for businesses of all sizes, from all\nindustries and from all areas of the country.\nIs this President Clinton's program?\nPresident Clinton fully supports the Partnership's initiative. However, the Partnership is a nonpartisan\neffort which relies on the support of both Republican and Democratic leadership as well as state and local\ngovernment officials. The Partnership also will coordinate its efforts with local and state private and public\nsocial service agencies. In order to make the welfare-to-work successful business leaders and government\nmust work together.\nHow did the initiative get started?\nOn August 22, 1996, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act was signed ending welfare as\nwe know it. Following the enactment of the new welfare law, many businesses recognized that the\ngovernment alone could not meet the goals of the new law. Accordingly, the CEOs of United Airlines,\nBurger King, Sprint, Monsanto and UPS joined together to form a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that\nwould spearhead the welfare-to-work effort from a business to business perspective.\nTogether with President and CEO Eli Segal, the five founding companies formed the Welfare to Work\nPartnership as a response to the law and to President Clinton's challenge to the private sector to initiate\nwelfare-to-work programs.\nWhat are the goals of the Partnership?\nIn the first year, the Partnership plans to build an expanding network of companies committed to hiring and\nretaining persons on public assistance. In addition to mobilizing companies, the Partnership will publish\nand broadly disseminate a Blueprint for Business manual that will serve as a guide to hiring welfare\nrecipients. It expects to develop a customer-friendly database of organizations that provide job training and\nreadiness, childcare and related services.\nWho are the five founding companies?\nThe founding companies of the Partnership are UAL Corporation, Burger King, Monsanto Company,\nSprint Corporation and United Parcel Service of America, Inc. United Airlines CEO Gerald Greenwald is\nthe Chairman of the Board.\nWho can participate in the Partnership?\nMembership is open to all businesses of all sizes, who have hired, or who will commit to hire welfare\nrecipients without the displacement of existing workers.\nWhy should businesses get involved in the Partnership or any type of welfare-to-\nwork effort?\nWelfare to work is a solution that's smart for business. Many companies find it difficult to locate entry-\nlevel workers. By actively recruiting welfare recipients, companies will greatly enlarge their pool of\npotential entry-level workers; a non-traditional pool that companies that has not previously been actively\nrecruited. Tax credits are also available. In addition, companies can actively participate in their\ncommunities to strengthen families and improve children's lives.\nWhat is the new welfare reform law?\nThe Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 replaced the Aid to Families with\nDependent Children (AFDC) program with block grants to the states. The prior AFDC program was\nrelatively open-ended, while the block grant programs are capped. The Act, effective this year, imposes a\n5-year, lifetime limits on welfare benefits, and requires adults in families to work to receive benefits after\ntwo years.\nWhat are some current welfare statistics?\nSince 1993, the number of Americans receiving public assistance has fallen about 20 percent, or by over\none million, the largest decline in the past five decades.\nA recent report released in May 1997, by the Council of Economic Advisors determined that low\nunemployment and a growing economy accounted for 40 percent of the decline in caseloads. Welfare\nreform experiments explained 31 percent of the decline, and the remainder was due to other policies,\nincluding the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income workers, increased child support collections and\nmore spending on child care for welfare mothers.\nTo date, eleven states - Alabama, Colorado, Indiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma,\nOregon, Utah, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, have reported more than 25 percent decline in welfare rolls.\n2\nThe Welfare to Work Partnership\n1250 Connecticut Ave., NW\nSuite 610\nWashington, DC 20036\nPhone 202-955-3005 Fax 202-637-9195\nMr. Robert B. Shapiro is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Monasanto\nCompany and a board member of the Welfare to Work Partnership. Monsanto is one of the five\noriginal founders of the Welfare to Work Partnership. Mr. Shapiro attended kick-off of the\nPartnership on May 20, 1997 at the White House. He is a member of the President's Advisory\nCommittee for Trade Policy and Negotiations and the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory\nCommittee. He has formerly served under previous appointments on the Advisory Committee on\nIndustrial Innovation, White House Domestic Policy Review; the Civil Aeronautics Board\nAdvisory Committee on Procedure; and the Massachusetts Governor's Task Force on\nTransportation. He has also served as vice chairman of the Committee on Corporate Counsel of\nthe American Bar Association. In St. Louis Mr. Shapiro is a leading member of Civic Progress,\nInc. Monsanto remains committed to strengthening the communities in which it operates by\nhiring and training people on public assistance.\nMr. Barry N. Corona is a Business Partner with The Welfare to Work Partnership. He is the\nPresident of Production Products, a minority owned St. Louis based manufacturer. He is also the\nBoard Chairman of Mid.Tec, a St. Louis based nonprofit that has been awarded the 1992 U.S.\nDepartment of Defense Minority Contractor of the Year and the U.S. 1996 Department of\nCommerce Supplier of the Year. Mr. Corona also serves as on the board of directors for the\nNorth Great Lakes Composite Consortium, the St. Louis Regional Commerce & Growth\nAssociation, the Air Force Historically Underutilized Business Council, and the St. Louis\nHispanic Chamber of Commerce. He also serves as a board member with St. Louis 2004, the St.\nLouis Partnership Office of Fannie Mae, and Missouri Procurement Assistance Centers. Mr.\nCorona is the Managing Director of Access America, a minority business consortium. He is also\na member of the St. Louis Task Force in Minority Business Development, the St. Louis Minority\nPurchasing Council, the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and the Minority\nEnterprise Networking Association.\nABOUT THE SITE\nMid.Tec Corporation is a non-profit manufacturing training facility with strong ties to the local\ncommunity. Mid.Tec was formed by a unique partnership of 250 companies in the region in\norder to train the unemployed and underemployed for placement in high-skilled manufacturing\njobs. Mid. Tec provides job-training opportunities for people who have no previous experience in\nsmall-to-medium sized manufacturing companies needing workers for good-paying jobs. Under\nMid.Tec's \"Job Link\" program, the unemployed and underemployed are trained to fill previously\nidentified job openings. In addition to providing job-related training, Mid. Tec also provides life-\nskills training, to teach individuals the work habits and attitudes they need to succeed in the world\nof work.\nLast year, Mid. Tec did something that is almost unprecedented in the St. Louis area. It moved its\noperation from a modern facility in an affluent suburb into a building it rehabbed in the inner city.\nIt wanted to move closer to a pool of unemployed people who can be trained to fill jobs that had\nbeen going unfilled, second, it wanted to help rebuild an inner city neighborhood. It moved into a\nbuilding in a federal enterprise community and made use of a state program to provide credits and\nother incentives to businesses investing in the inner city.\nTHE WELFARE TO WORK PARTNERSHIP\nEli J. Segal\nPresident and CEO\nEli J. Segal served as Assistant to the President of the United States from January 1993 -\nFebruary 1996. In this capacity, he was responsible for the design and enactment of the\nlegislation which created AmeriCorps, President Clinton's national service initiative. In\nOctober 1993, Mr. Segal was confirmed by the United States Senate to the additional position\nas the first Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National Service. Mr. Segal\nresigned as Chief Executive Officer in October, 1995.\nMr. Segal now serves on the Board of Directors of Home Shopping Network, Citizens\nFinancial Group, the Corporation for National Service and the National Alliance to End\nHomelessness, and the Board of Overseers of the Heller School of Brandeis University. He is\nChairman of the Board of SchoolSports, a new Boston-based magazine celebrating the world of\nhigh school sports.\nIn 1992, Mr. Segal was the Chief of Staff of the Clinton-Gore campaign and the Chief\nFinancial Officer during the Presidential transition period. In 1996, he served as Chairman of\nBusiness Leaders for Clinton-Gore.\nPrior to the 1992 campaign, Mr. Segal served as President of several consumer product\ncompanies, including American Publishing Corporation, Vogart Crafts Corporation and Bits &\nPieces, Inc. Most recently, he was the publisher of GAMES Magazine.\nMr. Segal has served on several non-profit boards, taught courses in government and law both\nhere and abroad and been active in many political campaigns.\nA native of Brooklyn, New York, Mr. Segal received his Bachelor's degree from Brandeis\nUniversity in 1964 and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Michigan Law School in\n1967. He is married to Phyllis N. Segal and has two children, Jonathan and Mora.\nWelfare to Work Partnership City launch\nSt. Louis, Missouri\nThe Partnership is honored to kick-off its community-based initiative in St. Louis on August\n12, 1997. This is an opportunity for the Partnership to work closely with the local\ncommunity leaders to bring national attention to the welfare-to-work initiatives in St. Louis\nand to bolster activities already underway.\nThe Partnership will work closely with Monsanto, a founding board member, Regional\nCommerce and Growth Association, and other members of the business community to\nmotivate businesses to become involved with welfare-to-work efforts. In addition, we will\nspotlight current welfare-to-work initiatives in St. Louis, including East-West Gateway, St.\nLouis 2004, Regional Governance Council - St. Louis Partnership, Baron-McCormack\nproject and others.\nOther guests include President Clinton, Governor Carnahan, Mayor Harmon and Bush and\nother elected and appointed officials.\nFor the St. Louis event, the Partnership will announce the business communities\ncommitment, salute successful programs, launch its 1-800 number and PSA campaign,\norganize and release its Blueprint for Business manual, describing how to a business can\nparticipate in the welfare-to-work initiative.\nThe Welfare to Work Partnership\n1250 Connecticut Avenue, NW Sixth Floor\nWashington, DC 20036\nPhone 202-955-3005 Fax 202-637-9195\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nFor more information please contact:\nMike Barbera or Luis Vizcaino\nDC: (202) 955-3005 x317\nSt. Louis: (314) 444-1173\nWelfare to Work Partnership Launches\nFirst Regional Event in St. Louis --\nMore than 300 Area Businesses Pledge to Hire Welfare Recipients\nSt. Louis, MO, August 12, 1997 -- The Welfare to Work Partnership launched its first of several\nregional events at Mid. Tec Corporation today as more than 300 businesses in the bi-state St.\nLouis region joined the Partnership by pledging to hire, train and retain former welfare recipients.\nPresident Clinton, Governor Mel Carnahan (D-MO), Senator Christopher \"Kit\" Bond (R-\nMO), St. Louis Mayor Clarence Harmon, East St. Louis Mayor Gordon Bush and Congressman\nRichard Gephardt (D-MO) joined the participating businesses in downtown St. Louis to celebrate\nthe Partnership's mission and spotlight established welfare to work initiatives.\nThe Partnership is an independent, nonpartisan, national effort of the American business\ncommunity to help move those on public assistance into jobs in the private sector. Its founding\ncompanies are Monsanto Company, United Airlines, Burger King, Sprint Corporation and United\nParcel Services of America. United Airlines CEO Gerald Greenwald is the chairman of the board\nwhile Eli Segal, a successful entrepreneur and former CEO of the Corporation for National\nService, is the Partnership's President and CEO.\n\"There are more than 42,000 welfare recipients in the bi-state St. Louis region,\" said\nRobert Shapiro, president of Monsanto and founding board member of the Partnership. \"Welfare\nrecipients are people with hopes and aspirations and dreams, and many of them are ready to be\ngreat employees if given the chance.\"\n-more-\nThe St. Louis event was the first of several regional events organized by the Partnership\nto challenge the local business community to commit to hire people off public assistance without\ndisplacing existing workers. The Partnership worked closely with Monsanto, a founding board\nmember, the Regional Commerce and Growth Association, Civic Progress, Mid.Tec Corporation\nand other members of the business community. The Partnership also worked with Governor\nCarnahan's office, the mayor's office of St. Louis and East St. Louis and the Department of\nSocial Services as well as community organizations, such as East-West Gateway, the St. Louis\nRegional Jobs Inititatives, and the St. Louis Community Partnership\nNearly 300 business leaders answered the challenge and are committed to the\nPartnership. Some of these business leaders already have established welfare to work programs,\nor are beginning to implement programs while others have pledged to hire and will soon be\nrecruiting former welfare recipients.\nThe Partnership is providing participating businesses with several information resources,\nincluding a Blueprint for Business hiring guide, a toll-free number (1-888-USA-JOB1), a web-\npage (www.welfaretowork.org), a national database of companies and service providers involved\nwith welfare to work efforts, a quarterly newsletter, a Public Service Announcement campaign,\nregional and state seminars and conferences and awards ceremonies.\n\"Businesses of all sizes and from all industries are learning the welfare to work is a smart\nsolution for business,\" said Segal. \"At a time when many businesses are facing a critical shortage\nof workers, a new, non-traditional source of employees is being discovered in communities across\nthe country.\"\nThe St. Louis event is the first in a series of events sponsored by the Partnership to\ncelebrate the one-year anniversary of the signing of the Welfare Reform Law. The celebration\nwill move to Washington, D.C. on August 14th when the Partnership will join with the U.S.\nChamber of Commerce and the Small Business Administration to celebrate and promote the role\nthat small businesses can play in making welfare to work a success. Finally, on August 22ⁿᵈ,\nexactly one year after the passage of the Welfare Reform Law, the Partnership will spotlight the\nsuccessful welfare reform programs in State of Wisconsin and salute Governor Tommy\nThompson (R-WI), a leader in welfare reform and a co-chair of the Partnership's advisory\ncouncil.\n###\nThe Welfare to Work Partnership\nAnnounces our upcoming\nFOCUS ON WELFARE TO WORK\nAugust 12 - 22, 1997\nOn August 22, 1996, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act was signed, ending welfare as we know\nit. With the help of hundreds of businesses across the country, The Welfare to Work Partnership (The Partnership)\nis working to move those on public assistance into jobs in the private sector. From August 12 to August 22, The\nPartnership is organizing a series of events to highlight existing initiatives and to energize the business\ncommunity.\nAugust 12\nCITY TO CITY LAUNCH - ST. LOUIS\nThis regional event will be the first of several planned by The Welfare to Work Partnership. Not only will\nthis event serve as a catalyst for more innovation and involvement in the bi-state St. Louis region, but it\nalso will focus the spotlight on welfare to work efforts nationwide. This event will:\nHighlight welfare to work initiatives in the bi-state St. Louis region;\nEnhance relationships between the business community, service providers, and government agencies;\nand\nMotivate the bi-state St. Louis region around welfare to work efforts.\nAnticipated event attendees include: President Bill Clinton, Governor Mel Camahan (D-MO), Governor Jim Edgar\n(R-IL), Senator Kit Bond (R-MO), Representative Bill Clay (D-MO), Representative Richard Gephardt (D-MO).\nAugust 14\nWELFARE TO WORK - A SMALL BUSINESS STRATEGY\nSponsored by The Welfare to Work Partnership, the US Chamber of Commerce and the Small Business\nAdministration, this event will announce the results of an extensive survey showing that a majority of\nCEOs from America's fastest growing companies are interested in joining forces with other businesses to\nhelp transition welfare recipients into the labor market. The role that small businesses can play in making\nwelfare to work a success will be celebrated and promoted.\nAugust 22\nSPOTLIGHT ON WISCONSIN\nExactly one year after the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, The\nPartnerhsip will spotlight the success of the State of Wisconsin and Governor Tommy Thompson (R-WT),\na leader in welfare reform, in moving individuals from dependence on welfare checks into lives of work\nand independence.\nThese events are the first of many planned by The Partnership.\nWe invite you to consider ways in which we can help you:\nEncourage businesses in your state to hire and retain former welfare recipients; and\nHighlight the efforts being made in your state.\nFor more information on these events or other activities of The Welfare to Work Partnership,\nplease call Gary Karton at 202-955-3005 x323\nThe Welfare to Work Partnership is a not-for-profit corporation organized under the laws of the District of Columbia\nTHE WELFARE To WORK PARTNERSHIP\n1250 Connecticut Avenue, NW\nSixth Floor\nWashington, DC 20036\nPhone 202-955-3005\nFax 202-637-9195\nPARTIAL LIST OF THE PARTNERSHIP BUSINESS MEMBERS\n(BY STATE)\nALABAMA\nStandard Furniture\nCOLORADO\nAutomation Temporary Services, Inc.\nCentennial Bolt, Inc.\nClark/Staff Leasing, Inc.\nGulf Distributing\nCONNECTICUT\nCareer Team\nARKANSAS\nAetna\nBeverly Enterprises\nTandem-Labor World\nCromwell Architects Engineers\nHelicopter Support, Inc.\nKearny Consulting\nUnited Parcel Service of America, Inc.\nDaymark Company\nDependent Care Connection\nJ.J. Husic Corporation d/b/a Nationwide Search\nCALIFORNIA\nand Retrieval\nTotal One Development Center\nPath Ways International\nNew Age Metal Furnishing\nCentury Center for Economic Opportunity, Inc.\nDELAWARE\nSTA of Southern California\nGreenwood Trust\nARCO\nCaldwell Staffing Services\nSIDS Air Conditioning & Heating Company,\nInc.\nDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA\nRayshore Security Services\nAmerican Public Welfare Association\nRubicon Programs, Inc.\nBoscart Construction\nManpower of Sacramento\nBurrito Brothers\nAce Mailing\nCity Works\nBudget Signs, Inc.\nDynamic Marketing Services, Inc.\nCal Insurance & Associates, Inc.\nElectronic Villages Data Management\nCharles Schwab\nCompany\nJuma Ventures\nFannie Mae\nJust Desserts\nFrida White and Associates\nKing Security Services, Inc.\nGraham Staffing Services\nName Finders Lists, Inc.\nJulia Williams, P.C.\nPacific Bell\nLamaute Capital, Inc.\nPacific Heights Chevron\nMarriott International\nPlumpJack, Inc.\nThe Nursery Hut CDC\nRainbow Grocery Cooperative\nSpiral Binding, Inc.\nFLORIDA\nStevens & Associates\nYogurt Expressions\nJLBR, Inc. DBA Labor Force Staffing\nTender Loving Things\nEsprit Staffing Services\nWestern Staffing Services\nExpress Personnel Services\nInPhyNet Medical Management\n1\nFLORIDA CONT.\nKENTUCKY\nCreative Staffing\nActive Transportation\nBurger King\nCrown Services, Inc.\nPride Enterprises\nRemedy Staffing of Louisville, Kentucky\nSnelling Personnel Services of Tampa\nStaffMasters\nSpartan Premier Staffing\nTAD Staffing Services\nGEORGIA\nLOUISIANA\nFutren Corporation\nAM-PM Temporary Services, Inc.\nNorfolk Waterside Marriott\nStaffing One, Inc.\nMAINE\nC & S Paving\nCareer Prospects, Inc.\nCMD Services\nSoleras, Ltd.\nAtWork Personnel Service, Inc.\nIDAHO\nManaged Care Services\nAmerican Staffing, Inc.\nMARYLAND\nILLINOIS\nGawthrop Construction, Inc.\nAmeritech\nAble Temporaries\nCeridian Performance Partners-The Partnership\nBaltimore Association for Retarded Citizens,\nGroup\nInc.\nRachel's Bus Company\nJustice Resources, Inc.\nResolution Resources\nLife-Like Products\nWalgreens\nModu Tech\nUAL Corporation\nMR Hopkins Transportation Service\nOmeda Communications, Inc.\nThrift Stores, Et Al\nMcDonald's Corporation\nWorldLinks, Inc.\nLabor World/Tandem\nMarriott Hotels, Inc.\nSRF, Inc. dba Adecco Personnel Services\nColumbia Staffing Services\nPizza Hut of Maryland, Inc.\nINDIANA\nMountain Surf, Inc.\nExpress Personnel Services---Fort Wayne\nLaunch Coast Services, Inc.\nAllison Engine Company\nBlue Cross/Blue Shield of Maryland\nGardner & White Corporation\nCTA Information Technology Services\nTempforce, An Accustaff Company\nPerdue Farms, Inc.\nRea, Logan, & Company, CPA's\nBlair Temporaries and Staffing, Inc.\nAspen Personnel Services\nIOWA\nSnelling Personnel Services\nSnelling Personnel Services\nMurry's, Inc.\nSedona Staffing Services, Inc.\nMASSACHUSETTS\nGreat Lakes Personnel Services, Inc.\nAmtrak\nCopy Cop\nKANSAS\nInner-City, Inc.\nExpress Personnel Services\nPitney Bowes Management Services\nAce Personnel\nStrive\nBusiness Temporary Services, Inc.\nMF Reynolds\nTRC Staffing Services\nBright Horizons Children's Centers\nSprint Corporation\nThe TJX Companies, Inc.\nCessna Aircraft Company\nGloucester Company\nNorrell Staffing Services\nPutnam Investments\nThe Stride Rite Corporation\nMalden Mills Industries, Inc.\n2\nMASSACHUSETTS CONT.\nNEW HAMPSHIRE CONT.\nDelta Dental Plan of Massachusetts\nTandem/Labor World\nTRC Staffing Services\nThe Timberland Company\nOffice Specialists\nSullivan & Cogliano\nNEW JERSEY\nSuburban Staffing, Inc.\nBurlington Coat Factory\nPitney Bowes Management Services\nIndependent Graphics, Inc.\nAT&T\nMICHIGAN\nEmployment & Training Institute, Inc.\nA Production Cleaning\nPriority Staffing, Inc.\nNEW MEXICO\nSnelling Temporaries\nAdvantage Staffing Resources (ASR)\nSkillTech Employment\nAdvantage Training Center (ATC)\nImmediate Temporary Help\nBeacon Services, Inc.\nNEW YORK\nEngineered Plastic Products\nPriority Staffing Services, Inc.\nDunhill Staffing System, Inc.\nMINNESOTA\nS.A. Ludsin & Company\nUnited Mailing, Inc.\nThe Slater Hill Group\nExpress Personnel Services\nWestern Temporary Services of Utica,\nSolmark & Frey FlexCareer\nSyracuse, Inc.\nAmerican Institute of Small Business\nAccustaff, Inc.\nBristol Place, Inc.\nAmerica Works\nCeridian Human Resources Group\nAmmirati Puris Lintas\nGrand Casinos, Inc.\nBorg Warner\nADDON Staffing Solutions\nBrookwood Companies, Inc.\nJeane Thorne, Inc.\nCooperative Home Care Associates (Bronx)\nLoews Hotels\nMISSOURI\nSiemens Corporation\nDierberg's Market\nThe TemPositions Group of Companies\nJalapeno Restaurants, Inc.\nTime Warner\nExpress Personnel Services\nThe Travellers Group\nPenmac Personnel Services\nPayForce\nA-Plus Home Health Care\nETS\nAgency Development Corporation/Kirkwood\nXerox\nInsurance Service Company\nB & W Police Security Systems, Inc\nNORTH CAROLINA\nBridges Community Support Services, Inc.\nInterim\nCare In-Home Services, Inc.\nAblest Staffing\nFlacos Tacos\nCareer Staffing\nMissouri Professional Staffing Service Home\nCharlotte Chamber of Commerce\nHealth, Inc.\nOffice Environments\nMonsanto Company\nTalent Tree Staffing Services\nSSM Health Care Central Region\nStaffmark Staffing Services\nCaldwell Personnel Services\nNEBRASKA\nSorry Temporary Service\nNorell Staffing Services\nC.C. Magnum, Inc.\nCrown Temporary Services\nJobs Partnership of Raleigh\nTandem Staffing for Industry\nRemedy Staffing Services\nToday's Temporary\nVolt Services Group\nAction Temporaries, Inc.\nNEW HAMPSHIRE\nChuck Roast Equipment, Inc.\n3\nNORTH DAKOTA\nKelly Services\nTENNESSEE\nPreference Personnel, Inc.\nEast Tennessee Mechanical Contractors, Inc.\nHarrah's Entertainment, Inc.\nOHIO\nTEXAS\nSnelling Personnel Services\nTDY Temporaries\nEmployer's Choice, Inc.\nBudget Car & Truck Rental\nHenderson Personnel, Inc.\nAmerican Airlines\nCrown Services, Inc.\nTodays Temporary\nExpress Personnel of Central Ohio\nLiving Centers of America\nThe Limited\nTalent Tree Staffing Service\nUTAH\nThe Reserves Network, Inc.\nPSC Development\nSnelling Personnel Services\nFire-Dex, Inc.\nVERMONT\nFlexible Personnel\nTriad Temporary Services, Inc.\nHealth Care & Retirement Corporation\nVIRGINIA\nSnelling Personnel Services\nInformation Technology Consultants\nOKLAHOMA\nAarow Temporary Services\nExpress Personnel Services\nPrecon Construction Company\nInd/Ex\nICF Kaiser International, Inc.\nJomoco Products\nSoBran, Inc.\nBatey Enterprises II, Inc.\nOREGON\nDJ's Music & Videos\nForest Products Federal Credit Union\nDollar Tree\nK&W Cafeterias, Inc.\nPENNSYLVANIA\nOmni Waterside Hotel\nRehab Options, Inc.\nOptions Health Care, Inc.\nGenesis Health Ventures\nPinkerton Security Services\nInterim Personnel\nThe Stop Organization, Inc.\nHal Lefcourt Public Relations\nTidewater Transportation District Commission\nCarol Harris Temporaries, Inc.\nWinn Nursery of Virginia, Inc.\nIndustrial Staffing\nYukon Lumber Company\nGlobal Technology Solutions, Inc.\nPlaces and Programs for Children, Inc.\nHome Care Association of Philadelphia\nMeridian Resources, Inc.\nPep Boys\nSnelling Personnel Services\nAugment Associates Personnel\nBest Temporaries\nTAD Staffing Services\nMaxim Health Care Services\nWestinghouse Government & Environmental\nServices Company\nWASHINGTON\nLaser Labs\nHuman Resources of Olympia\nInternational Community Health Services\nRHODE ISLAND\nLombardi's Cucina\nAble Personnel Resource, Inc.\nPuget Sound Blood Center & Program\nOccupations Unlimited, Inc.\nPersonnel Unlimited/Professional Temps\nMidas Muffler Shops\nSOUTH CAROLINA\nWindham Building Company, Inc.\nWISCONSIN\nInterim Personnel\nSOUTH DAKOTA\nManpower, Inc.\nKelly Services\nGeneral Converters & Assemblers, Inc.\n4\nWISCONSIN CONT.\nWYOMING\nSuperior Industrial Coating\nOlsten Staffing Services\nBarbara Guthrie Medical Services, Inc.\nECH Corporation d/b/a Todays Temporary\nTotal 302\n5\nNot asgiser\nPRESIDENT WILLIAM J. CLINTON\nREMARKS FOR WELFARE TO WORK\nMEETING WITH CEOS\nTHE EAST ROOM\nMAY 20, 1997\nAcknowledgments: Vice President Gore; Sen. Specter; Rep.'s Levin, Tanner, Shaw;\nGov. Tommy Thompson, Wisconsin; Gov. Tom Carper, Delaware; Eli Segal, President, Welfare\nto Work Partnership; Gerald Greenwald, Chair, Welfare to Work Partnership; George Stinson,\nSmall Business Owner from Wisconsin.\nI thank you for joining together in a great national mobilization to move millions of\nAmericans from the degradation of welfare to the dignity of work. This cause must enlist the\nenergies of government, of churches, of civic organizations. But it will never succeed -- welfare\nreform will never succeed without the leadership, energy, and vision of American business.\nThe companies here today are the lifeblood of our economy and the engine of our\nprosperity. They come from every region in America; they encompass nearly every industry;\nthey are large corporations and small businesses, but they are united in their determination to\nhelp us finish the job of welfare reform. Some of them support Democrats; some of them\nsupport Republicans, but welfare reform is not a partisan issue; it is a moral obligation that each\nof us must fulfill.\nThese CEO's are here to say, without regard to party: Moving millions of people from\nwelfare to work is America's business, and it must be the work of America's businesses.\nTogether, you have pledged to do your part by hiring people off of welfare and enlisting 1000\nmore companies to help us meet our goal of moving one million people from welfare to work by\nthe year 2000.\nI want all of you to think for a minute about the importance of this undertaking. For\npeople condemned to live on the edges of American life, what you have pledged can mean the\ndifference between a lifetime of dependency, and a lifetime of independence; what you have\npromised can mean the difference between burdening their children with a legacy of despair, and\nleaving them with an inheritance of hope.\nThe task of moving people from welfare to work is fundamental to our values and beliefs,\nand the success of welfare reform is critical to the success of our country. We are living in a time\nof unrivaled peace and prosperity -- our economy is the strongest it has been in a generation.\nUnemployment is at 4.9%, the lowest in 23 years. Inflation is at its lowest in 30 years. Our\nbudget deficit is the lowest in the industrialized world, and headed to zero. Now we have a rare\nand perhaps fleeting chance to use our prosperity to lift millions more people from welfare to\nwork. And if we do not seize this chance, if we wait for some other time, we will regret it for\nyears to come.\nLast year, I signed into law an approach that revolutionized welfare, but that day did not\nmark the beginning of welfare reform. America had already moved nearly two million people\noff the welfare rolls. I signed historic welfare reform legislation to build on that progress. It was\na dramatic step, but we knew that the time was right to put an end to a system that was broken\nbeyond repair. Now it is up to all of us to build a new system of responsibility and work.\nWelfare reform does not end in Washington, it only begins here. We all have work to do,\nin communities and state capitols and board rooms all across America. The national government\nwill do its part. In April, I was pleased to announce that we will hire at least 10,000 welfare\nrecipients in the next four years, and encourage private contractors that work with us to do the\nsame. But the national government's main role must be to help move people into private sector\njobs.\nTwo weeks ago, Vice President Gore and I joined with the leaders of Congress to\nannounce a truly bipartisan agreement to balance the federal budget for the first time in nearly\nthree decades. This is a balanced budget that is in balance with our values. I am very happy that\nour agreement includes the full funding I requested for two critical welfare-to-work initiatives\nthat will make it easier for the public and the private sector all over the country to follow your\nlead and hire people off welfare.\nFirst, it provides $3 billion to help cities and states create jobs, and to subsidize new jobs\nin the private sector. Second, it encourages employers to hire and retain welfare recipients by\ngiving businesses a 50% tax credit over two years on the first $10,000 of wages for every long\nterm welfare recipient they hire.\nWe must also do everything we can to help clear away other barriers that keep people\nfrom moving from welfare to work. For many welfare recipients, the greatest obstacle is not a\nlack of desire to work, or even a lack of training; it is a lack of transportation.\nTwo out of three new jobs are created in the suburbs, far from the urban centers and rural\nareas where three quarters of all welfare recipients live. That is an economic reality that we\ncannot ignore. Today, I am pleased to announce that we are awarding seed grants to 24 states to\ndevelop transportation schemes to help people get to and from those new jobs. But we must do\neven more. That is why I proposed legislation that provides $600 million to help states and local\ncommunities put these plans in action. If we're going to ask people to work, we should help\nthem get to work, not leave them stranded in neighborhoods where there is not enough work to\ngo around.\nState governments must also take responsibility to move people from welfare to work.\nEvery single state has the power to help you hire welfare recipients. Under the welfare reform\nlaw that I signed, every state has the authority to take what had been welfare checks and turn\nthem into paychecks -- pay subsidies for businesses that want to help move people from welfare\nto work. I urge you to work with your governors and state legislators so that they, too, join our\npartnership.\nBut as all of you know, the most basic responsibility falls to the private sector. All of you\nhave pledged to do your part, but we know that it will not be easy. We cannot minimize or gloss\nover what we have to do. Some of the people who still need to be moved will be harder to reach,\nharder to touch than many of those who have moved to the independence of work in the last four\nyears. They need help; they need guidance; they need to learn the everyday rules of work and life\nthat the rest of us take for granted. I urge you to follow the lead of Marriott International,\nrepresented here today by Bill Marriott, where the \"Pathways to Independence\" program\nsupports people making the transition from welfare to work.\nScripture tells us that \"to those from whom much is given, much is expected.\" If we are\ngoing to meet our goal of restoring hope to millions of Americans, we must begin to expect more\nof ourselves. The greatest challenges we face are challenges of the heart, and they must be met,\nperson by person, business by business, neighborhood by neighborhood. Government will help;\ngovernment will clear the way. But in this new time, we need a new ethic of personal\nresponsibility, of citizen service, a new ethic you are putting into practice today. As I said at the\nPresident's Service Summit in Philadelphia, the era of big government is over -- the era of big\ncitizenship must begin. I thank each of you for doing your part.\nMAY\n19 '97 10:08 AT&T FAX 9020FX\nP.2\nThe Welfare to Work Partnership\n1250 Connecticut Ave., NW . Sixth Floor\nWashington, DC 20036\nPhone 202-955-3005 Fax 202-637-9195\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nContact:\nKevin Talley\n(202) 955-3005 x321\nAmerican Businesses Join to Launch National Welfare-to-Work Initiative\nWashington, D.C., Tuesday, May 20, 1997 -- Chief Executive Officers and Senior\nOfficials of Burger King, Monsanto, Sprint, United Airlines Corporation and United\nParcel Services joined with more than 100 other participating business leaders at the White\nHouse today to launch the Welfare to Work Partnership.\nThe Welfare to Work Partnership is an independent, nonpartisan, national effort of\nthe American businesses community to help move those on public assistance into jobs in\nthe private sector. Gerald Greenwald, the CEO from United Airlines Corporation (UAL),\nwas announced as the Partnership's Chairman of the Board.\nPresident Clinton, Vice President Gore, Governors Tommy Thompson (R-WT) and\nTom Carper (D-DE) champions of the welfare-to-work initiative, acknowledged the\nPartnership's mission and the leadership roles of its founding board members -- CEOs\nDennis Malamatinas from Burger King Corporation, Robert B. Shapiro from Monsanto\nCompany, William T. Esrey from Sprint Corporation, James P. Kelly from United Parcel\nServices of America, Inc. and Greenwald.\nMore than 100 other participating business leaders attended the White House\nceremonies and are committed to the Partnership. These business persons already have\nestablished welfare-to-work programs, are currently beginning to implement programs or,\nin the case of the smaller businesses, will commit to hiring a select number of those off\npublic assistance.\n-more-\nMAY\n19 '97 10:09 AT&T FAX 9020FX\nP.3\nWelfare to Work Partnership\npress release/page two\n\"Through this national effort, American businesses will work together to give\nevery person in our country an opportunity to be self sufficient,\" said Greenwald. \"It is\nimportant that large and small businesses from all regions and sectors step forward and\naccept the challenge.\"\nEli Segal, a successful entrepreneur and former head of the National Service\nCorporation, formed the Partnership in response to last year's welfare reform legislation\nand Clinton's challenge to the private sector to promote welfare-to-work opportunities.\nHe is now serving as President of the Partnership.\nThe Partnership will encourage companies to hire and retain those on public\nassistance -- without displacing existing workers. It will provide information; technical\nassistance and support, including a toll-free information number; a best practices manual; a\ndatabase of companies with welfare-to-work programs by geographic area and industry;\nand a list of service providers, by area, for large and small businesses from all industries\nand all regions of the country.\nMembership in the Partnership is open to all businesses that are committed to\nhiring and retaining those on public assistance.\n\"One of our primary concerns as an employer is to hire and to provide on-the-job\ntraining to those persons who are low-skilled and without much job experience,\" said\nGeorge R. Stinson, President of General Converters and Assemblers, Inc. Stinson is a\nowner of a manufacturing company in Racine, Wisc. with more than one-half of its 211\nperson workforce formerly on public assistance. \"We have found that most welfare\nrecipients are eager to leave thei welfare rolls in favor of gaining valuable skills and\nemployment.\"\n###\nTHE WELFARE TO WORK PARTNERSHIP\nEli J. Segal\nPresident and CEO\nEli J. Segal served as Assistant to the President of the United States from January 1993 -\nFebruary 1996. In this capacity, he was responsible for the design and enactment of the\nlegislation which created AmeriCorps, President Clinton's national service initiative. In\nOctober 1993, Mr. Segal was confirmed by the United States Senate to the additional position\nas the first Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National Service. Mr. Segal\nresigned as Chief Executive Officer in October, 1995.\nIn 1992, Mr. Segal was the Chief of Staff of the Clinton-Gore campaign and the Chief\nFinancial Officer during the Presidential transition period. In 1996, he served as Chairman of\nBusiness Leaders for Clinton-Gore.\nPrior to the 1992 campaign, Mr. Segal served as President of several consumer product\ncompanies, including American Publishing Corporation, Vogart Crafts Corporation and Bits &\nPieces, Inc. Most recently, he was the publisher of GAMES Magazine.\nGENERAL CONVERTERS AND ASSEMBLERS, INC.\nGeneral Converters and Assemblers, Inc. (GCA), is a minority owned and operated\nmanufacturing company of approximately 211 employees located in the inner city of Racine,\nWisconsin. With more than one-half of its workforce formerly on public assistance, GCA truly\nhas empowered its community. GCA provides specialized training to its workers, enabling\nthem to gain the experience and skills to move to higher paying jobs. By expanding its facility\nby almost 200,000 square feet, GCA plans to increase its workforce by 33 percent to more\nthan 300 positions, anticipating that many of the 100 new employees will come from the\nwelfare rolls.\nGeorge Stinson\nChairman and President\nGeorge Stinson has been chairman and president of General Contractors for the past 24 years.\nHis first involvement in community service came when he was working for Johnson's Wax in\nRacine. Wisconsin. Johnson's Wax loaned out Mr. Stinson to the community for two years to\nhelp develop minority business.\nUNITED AIRLINES CORPORATION\nAs the largest employee-owned corporation in the world. with more than 86,000 employees\naround the globe working to serve customers on more than 2,200 daily flights, United Airlines\nhas a variety of positions that are suitable for individuals who are returning to work or new to\nthe workforce. United's employment recruiters work closely with social service and other\nnonprofit agencies in Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco,\nWashington. DC, and other communities to identify and recruit job recipients as potential job\napplicants. Many of the community-based agencies working with United have customized their\nemployment-training programs to facilitate a better fit with the types of positions available at\nUnited, which include everything from reservations agents to administrative-support positions.\nUnited provides new employees with on-the-job and/or off-site training, mentoring programs,\nsolid benefits, and opportunities for career advancement. United's aim is to help individuals\nshift successfully from public assistance to the workforce. Its goal is to hire 2,000 people who\nare currently on welfare by the end of the year 2000.\nGerald Greenwald\nChairman and Chief Executive Officer\nGerald Greenwald is chairman and chief executive officer of UAL Corporation and United\nAirlines, its principal subsidiary company. He is based at the company's world headquarters in\nsuburban Chicago.\nIn 1991, Mr. Greenwald served as managing director of Dillon Read & Co., Inc., an\ninvestment banking company. From April 1992 until March 1993, he served as president of\nOlympia & York Developments Ltd., a real estate development company. From March 1993\nuntil September 1994, he served as chairman of Tatra, a Czech Republic truck manufacturer.\nMr. Greenwald's career started in the automobile industry. From 1957 to 1979, he was\nemployed by the Ford Motor Company, where he worked in several positions, including\ncontroller, director of Ford's operations in Europe and finally, as president of Ford of\nVenezuela.\nFrom 1979 to 1990, Mr. Greenwald was employed by the Chrysler Corporation, where he\nworked in various positions, including corporate controller and chief financial officer before\nbeing promoted to vice chairman, a position in which he shared full responsibility with the\nCEO for the operations of the company.\nEmployee Profile\nJalani Wilson\nJalani Wilson, currently a personnel clerk, is a 23-year-old single mother. Since joining\nUnited Airlines in March 1997, Ms. Wilson has performed a variety of clerical activities to\nsupport personnel and employment functions and offices, including inputting and retrieving\ndata from computers and assisting in tasks related to employment applications. \"Through\nEmployee and Employer Services, I was introduced to United, and since then I have had a\nwhole world of opportunities open up for me,\" said Ms. Wilson. \"My goal is to eventually go\nback to school for corporate law and expand my career with United.\"\nBURGER KING CORPORATION\nBurger King Corporation (BKC) is a leader in today's fast-food industry, with locations in all\n50 states and 56 countries and territories around the world. BKC and its franchisees have a\nsolid track record of responsible corporate citizenship. For almost ten years, Burger King has\nbeen helping at-risk youth stay in school. an important step in helping them break the cycle of\nwelfare dependency. Through its Burger King Academy dropout prevention programs, Burger\nKing has given these students a second chance to be successful in school.\nNow Burger King is taking on the challenges of making welfare reform a success. Burger King\nanticipates creating between 10,000 to 20,000 jobs annually for public assistance recipients.\nWhile the initial challenge is to successfully transition people on public assistance into the\nworkplace, Burger King recognizes the capacity of these workers to move up the career ladder\nwithin the Burger King system. BKC and its franchisees are proud of our many restaurant\nmanagers who have literally worked their way up from crew level positions to management.\nFor example. Don Bausch, the manager of a Burger King restaurant in Eureka, California, was\nreceiving public assistance when he started working in an entry-level position in 1993. Now,\nhe proudly manages that restaurant. Burger King hopes to replicate Don's success story\nthroughout the nation as it continues to work in partnership with the public and private sectors.\nDennis Malamatinas\nChief Executive Officer\nDennis Malamatinas is the newly-appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Burger King\nCorporation. He has worked for International Distillers and Vintners (IDV) -- the world's\nlargest wines and spirits company by volume, and Grand Metropolitan's drinks business --\nsince 1989.\nIn June 1995. he became Executive Director and President of IDV Asia Pacific, which\nmanages the marketing. selling, distribution, and production of IDV brands in India, China,\nJapan, the Far East, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East. He was also named a\nmember of the IDV Board. Under his leadership, IDV Asia Pacific made significant progress\nin India. Thailand and The Philippines. He also established a joint venture to produce and\ndistribute premium spirits brands in China and restructured to invest new resources behind\nIDV's brands.\nFrom 1991 to 1995, Malamatinas served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Pierre\nSmirnoff Company, the world's largest vodka brand. He joined IDV in 1989 as Managing\nDirector of Metaxa, based in Athens, Greece, where he was responsible for Metaxa business\nworldwide. From 1986 to 1989, he worked with Pepsico, initially as Operations Trainer for\nthe Middle East Region and later as President and Chief Executive Officer of Pepsico Italy.\nUNITED PARCEL SERVICE OF AMERICA\nUPS has actively participated in a variety of programs to help prepare adults and young people\nenter the workforce and retain jobs for more than 25 years. Since 1996, UPS has hired more\nthan 1,000 people from public assistance nationwide. Generally, UPS offers opportunities for\nindividuals to move into part-time package handling jobs, starting at $8 to $9 per hour with\nfull medical benefits. As part of its welfare-to-work efforts, UPS identifies candidates and\nprovides employment and training in cooperation with local organizations. To help ensure that\neach person's transition to the workforce is positive, UPS commits a full-time manager to\nguide the program and provides each new employee a mentor. Since October 1996, UPS has\nplaced more than 700 people who have received public assistance in jobs throughout the\nPhiladelphia area. UPS's commitment to its new employees is demonstrated by the bus system\nit implemented to address transportation needs in the Philadelphia area.\nJames P. Kelly\nChairman and Chief Executive Officer\nJim Kelly is chairman and chief executive officer for United Parcel Service. He served as vice\nchairman and chief operating officer prior to assuming his current position on January 1, 1997.\nFollowing service in the U.S. Navy, his career with UPS began in 1964 as a package delivery\ndriver in his home state. He earned rapid promotion into management as package distribution\ncenter manager in 1965. His advancement continued in various staff and operations positions of\nincreasing responsibility. In 1988, Kelly was elected senior vice president and appointed the\ncompany's Labor Relations manager. Since 1991 he has served on the UPS Board of Directors.\nIn 1992, he became chief operating officer and two years later executive vice president.\nLea Soupata\nSenior Vice President\nLea Soupata is the Senior Vice President, Human Resources for United Parcel Service (UPS).\nShe is responsible for all domestic and international Human Resources matters affecting the 5th\nlargest employer in the U.S. Ms. Soupata is on the Management Committee of 12 top senior\nexecutives responsible for the cross functional management of UPS. She is also a Chairperson\nof the UPS Foundation. Prior to her position as Senior Vice President, Ms. Soupata was Vice\nPresident Human Resources, where she was responsible for half of the UPS domestic\nemployment training, promotion and workforce planning, and organizing activities.\nEmployee Profile\nPamela Brown\nPamela Brown, a 24-year-old single mother. is currently a package handler in charge of\nscanning time-sensitive air packages in New York City. Ms. Brown spent two years on and off\npublic assistance before becoming employed at UPS. Since joining UPS in August 1995, Ms.\nBrown has held several positions, including loading, unloading, and sorting packages. \"Now\nthat I am working at UPS,\" said Ms. Brown, \"my self-confidence and self-esteem are taller\nthan the Empire State Building. Going from Medicaid to full benefits and from $98.50 every\ntwo weeks to $150 a week is like climbing a mountain with your head held high.\"\nSPRINT CORPORATION\nAs one of five companies recognized by President Clinton as being a catalyst in the welfare-to-\nwork effort, Sprint is serving as a business and community leader to help transition individuals\nfrom public assistance through hiring programs, community involvement, and business\ninvolvement.\nSprint built and operates the United States' only nationwide all digital, fiber-optic network and\nis the leader in advanced data communications.\nOne of several Sprint welfare-to-work initiatives is a pilot training program with the\nMetropolitan Community Colleges in Kansas City. The six-week program helps individuals\ndevelop basic customer service and clerical skills and trains them on call center management\nsystems and telephone etiquette. Sprint is partnering with other companies on this project who\nhave pledged to hire graduates. Of the initial 18 graduates, 14 now hold full-time jobs,\nincluding two hired at Sprint.\nIn other areas of the country, Sprint has established an apprentice program where employed\nindividuals learn telephone installation and pole climbing. The company also sends its job\nposting to job service agencies and public assistance organizations. Employees serve as\nemployment advisors to low-income and underemployed individuals and work with area\nagencies to develop training programs and internships to individuals on public assistance who\nseek to sharpen their job-readiness skills.\nWilliam T. Esrey\nChairman and Chief Executive Officer\nWilliam T. Esrey is chairman and chief executive officer for the Sprint Corporation. Esrey\nstarted at United Telecommunications, Inc. (renamed Sprint in 1992) in 1980 as executive Vice\nPresident-Corporate Planning. In 1981, Mr. Esrey was named Executive Vice President, Chief\nFinancial Officer and a year later became President of United Telecom Communications, Inc.\n(renamed US Telecom in 1985).\nIn 1984. Mr. Esrey assumed additional responsibilities as the Chief Financial Officer before\nbeing named President and Chief Executive Officer in 1985 and assuming additional\nresponsibilities as Chairman in 1990.\nMONSANTO COMPANY\nWhile Monsanto Company is in the process of splitting into two different companies, a life\nscience enterprise and a chemical business, Monsanto remains committed to strengthening the\ncommunities in which it operates by hiring and training people on public assistance.\nMonsanto has engaged in a four-city pilot program in St. Louis; Chicago; Greenwood, South\nCarolina; and Pensacola, Florida. The programs help people on public assistance in several\nways from identifying candidates for positions in administrative support and transportation in\nChicago to recruiting qualified clerical workers in St. Louis.\nMonsanto's commitment to the welfare-to-work initiative goes beyond its own company.\nMonsanto has encouraged its vendors and contractors to recruit those on public assistance.\nMonsanto has played a leadership role in the St. Louis Regional Jobs Initiative. Through this\neffort, the business, social service and government sectors are developing a coordinated and\nsustainable training model that connects the regional labor market with job seekers living in the\nregion's urban core.\nRobert B. Shapiro\nChairman, President and Chief Executive Officer\nRobert Shapiro is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Monsanto Company.\nShapiro joined Searle. now a unit of Monsanto, in 1979 as Vice President and General\nCounsel. In 1982, he was named President of the newly formed NutraSweet Group of Searle.\nWhen Searle was acquired by Monsanto in 1985, he was appointed Chairman and Chief\nExecutive Officer of The NutraSweet Company, a subsidiary of Monsanto. In 1990, he was\nnamed Executive Vice President, Monsanto Company, and President, The Agricultural Group,\nan operating unit of Monsanto. He became Monsanto's President and Chief Operating Officer\nin 1993 and was appointed to his present position in April 1995.\nBefore joining Searle, Mr. Shapiro was Vice President and General Counsel for General\nInstrument Corporation. Previously, he served as an attorney with the New York law firm of\nPoletti, Freidin, Prashker, Feldman and Gartner. and a professor of law at Northeastern\nUniversity in Boston and the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Mr. Shapiro served in\ngovernment as Special Assistant to the General Counsel and later to the Undersecretary of the\nU.S. Department of Transportation.\nREGIONAL EXAMPLES OF COMPANIES WHO HAVE\nWELFARE TO WORK PROGRAMS IN PROGRESS\nBORG-WARNER PROTECTIVE SERVICES, Jack Donohue, 201-397-2070\nChicago, Illinois\nBorg-Warner Protective Services is the largest provider of physical and electronic\nsecurity services in the country. Borg-Warner hires 25% of its workforce from the\nwelfare rolls. In less than two years, Borg-Warner has employed and trained 1006\nwelfare recipients in partnerships with community-based agencies across the country.\nIn addition this company has made a commitment to hire welfare recipients to staff a\nlarge client base in New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. In\n1993, in collaboration with the New York City Department of Homeless Services,\nBorg-Warner developed and operated the Greenpoint Security Training Academy.\nThis 90-day training program was designed to meet the needs of the homeless\npopulation while maintaining a high quality work standard. On May 19, 1997, Borg-\nWarner was asked to conduct a workshop at New York Governor George Pataki's\nEconomic Summit for Women '97. Materials from this summit will be included in the\nNew York State's \"Goals 2002 Program\" brochure to encourage businesses to\nparticipate in New York's Welfare to Work Initiative.\nInDEx, INC. AND JOMOCA PRODUCTS, Wayne Rowley, 918-568-0241\nTulsa, Oklahoma\nThis Partnership between Industrial Exchange, Inc., (InDEx) and Jomoca Products\ndemonstrates the unique ability of a Chamber of Commerce to conduct outreach efforts\nto their local business community to cultivate participation in welfare-to-work\nprograms. InDEx was created by the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce in 1992 to\nprovide training, education and long term employment opportunities to the\ndisadvantaged in the local community. In a contract with Oklahoma Department of\nHuman Services, interested clients sign up to participate in the training program. This\nprogram encompasses four hours of job training and four hours of education equipped\nwith childcare services. When Wal-Mart requested Zebco to make fishing rods in the\nUS at affordable prices, this inquiry resulted in the first contract between Zebco and\nInDEx to put welfare recipients to work. Since then many other companies have\nsigned up to be employers to those completing the InDEx program. One of those\ncompanies is Jomoco Products. Jomoco Products is a producer of chimneys caps and\nother metal products. This company has hired 3 welfare recipients with a commitment\nto hire many more. In 1994, the AFDC caseload in Tulsa county was over 8,000.\nToday that number has decreased to 5,300 recipients, in large part to collaboration\nbetween businesses and InDEx.\n1\nCESSNA AIRCRAFT COMPANY, Russell M Meyer, 316-941-7820\nWichita, Kansas\nCessna Aircraft Company believes corporate America is uniquely able to create\nsustainable and productive cities by providing training and employment. As a result of\nthis belief, Cessna's sense of responsibility to the community led to the development of\na comprehensive training and education center called the 21st Street Training Center.\nIn 1990, in an effort to close the economic gap and put welfare recipients to work,\nCessena renovated a 11,000 square feet facility with the use of Community\nDevelopment Block Grant provided by the city of Wichita. One striking feature of this\ntraining program is that it offers participants a full salary and benefits. The program\nalso provides mental-health counselors on-site and successful participants are\nguaranteed employment. Cessena notes 70% of participants become job ready, and\n64% find private sector employment. This company currently employs 150 welfare\nrecipients with plans to hire an additional 50. By October 1997, the 21st Street\nTraining Center is expanding to include childcare and affordable housing.\nSPARTAN PREMIER STAFFING, Robert Hoover, 813-286-2860\nTampa, Florida\nSpartan Premier Staffing was established in 1986 and is now one of the largest\ngrowing temporary employment agencies for the light industrial and construction labor\nmarkets in this country. Spartan has employed 18,000 welfare recipients this year with\na commitment to hire many more in the future. This company's recruitment and\ntraining efforts is best reflected in Ronny's story. Ronny, a victim of homelessness\nand alcoholism, was able to gain employment through the efforts of Spartan. Spartan\nalso went beyond the call of duty by assisting Ronny in obtaining housing and seeking\nhelp for his alcoholism. Ronny went on to secure housing, stop drinking, and serve as\na mentor to others at Spartan. Unfortunately, his inspiration was cut short through his\nuntimely death due to emphysema. The heart-felt efforts of the staff at Spartan is an\nexample of how caring can make a difference.\nXEROX CORPORATION, William McDermott, 716-231-7105\nStamford, Connecticut\nXerox employs 46,000 people in the U.S., and Xerox Business Services (XBS) is the\nfastest growing division within Xerox, growing at a rate of 40% per year. XBS is\ncurrently involved in developing a pilot program set to begin in eight locations across\nthe country starting July 1997. XBS's main goal is to establish partnerships with\ncommunity-based training organizations. XBS has pledged to hire over 200 welfare\nrecipients in the near future from the partnership organizations. Welfare recipients\nwill work in mailrooms and with print and document production systems and receive a\nfull benefits package. XBS has already begun to launch a welfare-to-work effort in\nNew York City in collaboration with America Works.\n2\nSTANDARD FURNITURE, Jim Hanson, 334-937-6741\nBAY MINETTE, ALABAMA\nStandard Furniture, a small family run furniture business of 727 employees in Bay\nMinette, Alabama, started a welfare-to-work program, long before the passage of the\nwelfare reform bill. In March 1996, Standard Furniture entered into a partnership with\nthe Baldwin County Economic Alliance, a coalition of the Department of Economic and\nCommunity Affairs, local businesses and social service agencies to expand their\nlaborforce. Standard Furniture agreed to interview welfare recipients referred by the\nDepartment of Human Resources for jobs in their furniture plant. Many of the\napplicants had been on public assistance for more than 5 years. All were women, most\nof whom had young children.\nStandard Furniture paid participants throughout their training session and developed a\nlife skills training curriculum taught bv instructors from Faulkner State Community\nAdult Education Program. Participants formed a peer mentoring group which met\nweekly to support their transition to the workplace. Since April 1996, two classes of\nwelfare recipients have graduated from the program. Retention rates for welfare\nrecipients after one year are higher than those of traditional employees. Of the twenty\ngraduates, 10 are still with the company, and two have moved on to higher paying jobs\nat other companies. In the first year. 20 welfare recipients have gone through the\nprogram, and Standard plans to hire another 20 over the next year.\nJim Hanson, the director of personnel under the direction of Standard's CEO, Robert\nHodgson, continues to serve as a model for Alabama businesses interested in\ndeveloping welfare-to-work programs\nJOBS PARTNERSHIP OF RALEIGH, Chris Mangum, 919-783-5700\nNORTH CAROLINA\nThe Jobs Partnership of Raleigh is a diverse collaboration of over 53 inner-city\nchurches and 48 businesses in the greater Raleigh area that provide job and life skills\ntraining, mentoring and job opportunities for welfare recipients entering the workforce.\nIn November 1995, Dr. John Perkins of the Christian Community Association\nchallenged churches in the Raleigh area tocreate opportunities for welfare recipients.\nRising to this challenge, Chris Mangum, President of a C.C. Mangum Contractors,\nInc., one of the state's premiere asphalt and paving companies, joined with Skip Long,\na business man and leader in urban ministries, to establish the Jobs Partnership of\nRaleigh. In less than a year and a half, the Jobs Partnership of Raleigh has graduated\n62 welfare recipient, of which 58 are gainfully employed.\nThe Jobs Partnership of Raleigh recruits local businesses to provide employment\nopportunities to Raleigh's neediest citizens. Once the Jobs participant enters the\nprogram. they are assigned to a church mentor. Church mentors commit to counsel and\n3\nsupport welfare recipients throughout a two-year period to ensure that applicants are\nsuccessful on the job and can provide for their families. Participants complete a 12\nweek curriculum based on Biblical work principles. This curriculum is augmented by\ncourse work on resume writing, interviewing and basic job readiness skills sponsored\nby Wake Technical Community College. Once a participant completes classwork, they\nare referred to the job clearinghouse which screens and refers applicants to participating\nemployers.\nBusinesses in the Jobs Partnership provide applicants with a fair opportunity for job\nopenings. Once an applicant is hired, employers assign a mentor to each participant so\nthey are supported on the job by mentors and at home through their church-assigned\nmentor. Mentors provide assistance with child care, transportation and any other\nmajor needs. Churches have committed to do whatever is necessary to enable the\nparticipant to complete training and, be equipped to start and succeed in a new job.\nThe Jobs Partnership of Raleigh has been so successful that numerous Jobs Partnerships\nhave been launched in cities across the country. Chattanooga, Tennessee has established\na Jobs Partnership with a coalition of more than 150 businesses committed to\ntransitioning welfare recipients into the workplace. Jobs Partnerships have been\nestablished in Fresno, CA, Orlando, FL, Spartansburg, SC, Baltimore. MD.\nRichmond, VA, and others will soon start in Boston, MA, Washington, DC, Atlanta.\nGA and Knoxville, TN.\n4\nThe Welfare to Work Partnership\n1250 Connecticut Avenue, NW Sixth Floor Washington, D.C. 20036\nTelephone . 202-955-3005 Telefax . 202-637-9195\nFacsimile Cover Page\nTo:\nCygithia Rice\nDate:\n6/11/97\nOrganization:\nWH DPC\nFax:\n456-7431\nFrom:\nKate Can\nPhone:\nX 308 or 311\nNumber of Pages Including Cover 13\nNote:\nlist of 105 companies who participated\nI'd\nJUN 11 '97 10:17 AT&T FAX 9020FX\n-\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nCynthia- -\nThis S what D\nJent Linda. I explained\nthat thus is the FINAL\nlist even though it says\ndraft.\n- Christa\nFor Official Government Use Only\nPresident's List\nWELFARE TO WORK ANNOUNCEMENT - Tuesday MAY 20 1997 - 1:30 PM White House - Business - East\nVisitors Entrance\nFor Official Government Use Only\nPage 1\nTHE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT\nREPORT DATE May 20, 1997\nREPORT TIME\n12:17 PM\nAccepts and No Responses\nA\nMs. Roberta Achtenberg\nPresident, San Francisco Works\nA\nHon. Aida Alvarez\nAdministrator-designate, Small Business Administration\nWashington, DC\nA\nMr. Michael R. Anderson\nA\nMr. Donald L. Baisch\nA\nMr. David Banks\nBeverly Enterprises Inc.\nA\nMr. David Belton\nDirector, Charlotte Chamber of Commerce\nA\nMr Vincent Berkeley, JR\nA\nMr. Edward Bonner\nPresident, Office Environments\nCharlotte, NC\nA\nMr. Donald J. Borut\nExecutive Director, National League of Cities\nWashington, DC\nA\nDr. Lee Bowes\nAmerican Works\nNew York, NY\nA\nMs. Amber M. Brookman\nA\nPresident Thomas Brosig\nPresident, Grand Casinos, Inc.\nMinnetonka, MN\nA\nMs. Pamela Brown\nA\nMs Crystal Butler\nA\nMs Juanita Bycraft-Walker\np & ceo, a production cleaning company\nA\nMr. Grover Bynum\nDirector, Governmental Affairs, Sprint\nWashington, DC\nA\nMr. Michele L. Cahn\nXerox Corporation\nA\nMs. Cecilia Calvo\nFederal Liason, Coorporation for National Service\nWashington, DC\nFor Official Government Use Only\nFor Official Government Use Only\nPage 2\nREPORT DATE: May 20, 1997\nREPORT TIME: 12:17 PM\nAccepts and No Responses\nA\nMr. Michael Capille\nNewton, PA\nA\nMr. Thomas Carey\nGuest: Mr. Peter Burki (Substitute for: Thomas Carey)\nA\nHon. (Gov.) Thomas Carper\nGovernor of Delaware (D), State of Delaware\nWilmington, DE\nA\nMs. Katherine Carr\nA\nMr. Robert J Chipman\nMacDonald's\nA\nMr. Chris Christopher\nA\nMr. Bruce Cohn\nThrift Stores, et al\nA\nMs. Maura Collum\nA\nMr. Ronald E. Compton\nChairman, Aetna Life & Casualty Company\nHartford, CT\nA\nMr. Peter Corless\nA\nMr Richard Crawford\nA\nMr. Phillip A. Singerman (Substitute for: William Daley)\nWashington, DC\nA\nMs. Pamela Jo Davis\nCEO, Pride Enterprises\nSt. Petersburg, FL\nA\nMs. Lisa Dawe\nA\nMr. Roger Rendin (Substitute for: Alan Dean)\nPep Boys\nPhiladelphia, PA\nA\nMr. Kenneth R. Dickerson\nSR VP, ARCO\nLos Angeles, CA\nA\nMr. Henry E. Dittmar\nA\nMr. William Dodge\nExecutive Director, National Association of Regional Councils\nWashington, DC\nA\nMr. Jack Donahue\nPresident, Borg Warner Automotive\nFor Official Government Use Only\nFor Official Government Use Only\nPage 3:\nREPORT DATE: May 20, 1997\nREPORT TIME: 12:17 PM\nAccepts and No Responses\nA\nMr Jeffrey Dooley\nBudget Car & Truck Rental\nCarrollton, TX\nA\nMr. John Doran\nCEO, TBT Enterprises\nA\nDr. Ronald I. Dozoretz\nPresident & Chairman, First Hospital Corporation\nNorfolk, VA\nA\nMr Gerald Edwards\nCEO, Engineered Plastic Prod\nYpsi, MI\nA\nMs. Phyllis Eisen\nSenior Policy Director, National Association of Manufacturers\nWashington, DC\nA\nMr Nathan Elias\nA\nMr. William Esrey\nA\nMs. Judy Layne Patterson (Substitute for: Frank Fahrenkopf)\nAmerican Bar Association\nA\nMr. Aaron Feuerstein\nA\nMs. Blair Foralw\nA\nMr. Ronald Foster\nUnited Parcel Service\nA\nMr. Robert F Franciose\nPresident, Managed Care Services, Inc.\nA\nMr. Mitchell Fromstein\nA\nMr. Claude Frontheim\nA\nMs. Lougwin Spencer (Substitute for: James Gallagher)\nA\nMr Ramon Gallardo\nCEO, Jalapeno Restuarants, Inc\nSt.Louis, MO\nA\nMr. John Galles\nSmall Business United\nA\nMr. John M Gaudet\nA\nRep Bill Goodling\nFor Official Government Use Only\nFor Official Government Use Only\nPage 4\nREPORT DATE: May 20, 1997\nREPORT TIME: 12:17 PM\nAccepts and No Responses\nA\nMr. Scott H. Gordon\nA\nMr Rajan Govinda-Rajan\nChair, GTS, Inc\nPhiladepha, PA\nMr. William Gray\nInner-City Inc\nA\nMs. Willa Green-Holden\nA\nMr. and Mrs. Gerald Greenwald\nChairman & Chief Executive Officer, United Airlines, Inc.\nChicago, IL\nA\nMr. Erik Halleius\nA\nMr. Joseph Hammil\nA\nMr. James Dewitte Hanson\nA\nMr. Clarence Harmon\nChief of Police, Saint Louis Police Department\nSaint Louis, MO\nA\nMs. Georgina Heard\nA\nMr. Robert Heflin\nA\nHon. Alexis M. Herman\nSecretary of Labor, Department of Labor\nA\nMr. William Hermelin\nA\nMr. Richard Herring\nMarine Engineers Beneficial Associations\nWashington, DC\nMr Nathan Hill\nA\nMr Richard Hill\nPres, Damark Company\nLittle Rock, AR\nA\nMr Robert M Hodgson\nA\nMs. Maxine Hopkins\nA\nMr. Albert Hoser\nSiemens\nA\nMr. E. Rachel Hubka\nFor Official Government Use Only\nFor Official Government Use Only\nPage 5\nREPORT DATE: May 20, 1997\nREPORT TIME 12:17 PM\nAccepts and No Responses\nA\nMr. Gerald B. Hughes\nA\nMr. Mr. Melvin Jackson\nPresident, Rehab Options, Inc.\nA\nMr. Mark Jacobsen\nVice President, TIX Company\nFramingham, MA\nA\nMr. Ronald James\nCEO, Ceridian Human Resources Group\nMinneapolis, MN\nA\nMr Gary Jefferson\nA\nMr. Willliam L Jews\nA\nMr. Albert Sidney Johnson\nAmerican Public Welfare Assoc.\nWashington, DC\nA\nMs. Anne Marie Wheelock (Substitute for: James Johnson)\nA\nMr. Keith Jones\nA\nMr. Robert Jones\nCEO, National Alliance of Business\nWashington, DC\nA\nMr. Jeffrey Joseph\nVice President, Domestic Policy, Chamber of Commerce\nWashington, DC\nA\nMr. Mark Juarez\nA\nMs. Gwendolyn Dyer Kaplan\nAce Mailing\nSan Ffracisco, CA\nA\nMs. Deborah Karamanol\nA\nMr. Ronald Kaufman\nA\nMr. Joseph A Kayne\nA\nMr. Kevin D. Keane\nThomson Press\nWashington, DC\nA\nMs. Janetta Kearney\nLittle Rock, AR\nA\nMr. James Kenny\nFor Official Government Use Only\nFor Official Government Use Only\nPage 6\nREPORT DATE:\nMay 20, 1997\nREPORT TIME: 12:17 PM\nAccepts and No Responses\nA\nMr. Thomas Kiernan\nA\nMr. John Kiker\nA\nMr. Frank E. Kruesi\nAssistant Secretary for Policy, US Department of Transportation\nWashington, DC\nA\nMr. Edward Kuntz\nLiving Centers of America\nHouston, TX\nA\nPresident and Mrs Christopher Kuselias\nPresident, Career Team\nHamden, CT\nA\nMr. Mark Lally\nA\nMs. Susan Langarten\nHon. (Sen.) Frank R. Lautenberg\nD/New Jersey, United States Senate\nWashington, DC\nMs. Linda Lawson\nA\nMr. Gerald Levin\nTime Warner\nA\nRep Sander Levin\nA\nMr. John N. Lieber\nWashington, DC\nA\nMr. Matthew Long\nA\nMs. Shelley A. Longmuir\nSenior Counsel, Government Affairs, United Airlines\nWashington, DC\nA\nMr Timothy T. Mahone\nSr. VP, Active Transportation\nLouisville, KY\nA\nMr Elliot Maisel\nA\nMr Dennis Malamatinas\nCEO, Burger King\nMiami, FL\nA\nMr. Joel Malina\nA\nMs. Katherine Mance\nNational Retail Federation\nFor Official Government Use Only\nFor Official Government Use Only\nPage 7\nREPORT DATE: May 20, 1997\nREPORT TIME: 12:17 PM\nAccepts and No Responses\nA\nMr. Christopher Mangum\nCEO, C.C. mangum\nA\nMr. John Willard Marriott\nCEO, Marriott\nWashington, DC\nA\nMs. Elizabeth McCarty\nSenior Director, Ceridian Perform. Part-The Partners\nA\nMr. William McDermott\nSRVP, Xerox\nRochester, NY\nA\nMr. William McKinney\nPizza Hut\nA\nMr. Raymond McMillian\nA\nMs. Vanda B. McMurtry\nSr. VP, Federal Gov't Relations, Aetna Inc.\nHartford, CT\nA\nMr. Russell W. Meyer\nA\nMs. Elizabeth Meyers\nLos Angeles, CA\nA\nMr. William Millar\nA\nMs. Sharon Miller\nPres, CEO, Immediate Temporary Help\nMidland, MI\nA\nMr. Joseph Moran\nA\nMr. Robert Morgan\nCouncil of Growing Companies\nMcLean, VA\nA\nPresident Christopher Nadza\nPresident, CMD Services\nNorcross, GA\nA\nPresident John O'Brien\nPresident, Borg Warner Automotive\nParsippany, NJ\nHon. (Rep.) James L. Oberstar\nD/Minnesota, House of Representatives\nWashington, DC\nA\nMr. Stewart Oran\nA\nMs. Grace Orestis\nFor Official Government Use Only\nFor Official Government Use Only\nPage 8\nREPORT DATE:\nMay 20, 1997\nREPORT TIME: 12:17 PM\nAccepts and No Responses\nA\nMs. Mary V. Clark (Substitute for: Benjmen Peasant)\nA\nMr. Andrew Peterson\nHon. (Rep.) Thomas E. Petri\nR/Wisconsin, House of Representatives\nWashington, DC\nA\nMr. Christopher Pilla\nA\nMr. Dean Plaisted\nA\nMr. Duncan Pollock\nA\nMs. Margaret Powell\nco-founder, cooperative home care assoc.\nHon. (Rep.) Nick Joe Rahall\nD/West Virginia, House of Representatives\nWashington, DC\nA\nMs. Linda Rea\nA\nMs. Judith Byrne Riley\nChair, National Assn. Private Industry Councils\nValparaiso, FL\nA\nMs. Barbara S. Robinson\nA\nMr. James David Roby\nA\nMs Rogercarole Rogers\nA\nMr. Wayne Rowley\nTulsa Chamber of Commerce\nA\nMr. John Rubino\nSVP, Walgreens\nA\nMr. Vincent Ruffalo\nCEO, Superior Industrial Coating\nRacine, WI\nA\nMs. Elaine Ryan\nAmerican Public Welfare Association\nWashington, DC\nA\nMr. Richard Ryan\nMF Reynolds, Inc.\nA\nMr. Khalil Saliba\nHon. (Sen.) Paul S. Sarbanes\nD/Maryland, United States Senate\nWashington, DC\nFor Official Government Use Only\nFor Official Government Use Only\nPage 9.\nREPORT DATE:\nMay 20, 1997\nREPORT TIME: 12:17 PM\nAccepts and No Responses\nA\nMr. Philip G Satre\nChairman, Harrah's Casino\nMemphis, TN\nA\nMs. Kitt Sawitsky\nStrive\nA\nMr. Barry Schlossberg\nRskMgt, Murry's Inc.\nA\nMr. Sheldon R. Schneider\nA\nMr. Richard Schwartz\nOpportunity America\nNew York, NY\nA\nHonorable Eli J. Segal\nPresident & CEO, Corporation for National & Community Service\nWashington, DC\nA\nMr. Robert B. Shapiro\nChairman & CEO, Monsanto Company\nSt. Louis, MO\nA\nRep. Clay Shaw\nHon. (Rep.) Bud Shuster\nR/Pennsylvania, House of Representatives\nWashington, DC\nA\nMr. William Alan Signer\nChambers Associates\nA\nMr. Scott Jay Simons\nCEO, Laser Labs\nRydal, PA\nA\nMr. Eric Sklar\nCEO, Burrito Brothers, Inc.\nWashington, DC\nA\nMs. Phyllis Hill Slater (Substitute for: Gina Slater)\nA\nSec. Rodney E. Slater\nSecretary of Transportation, Department of Transportation\nA\nMr. Francis G. Slay\nA\nMs. Mary Smith\nA\nMs. Lea Soupata\nA\nHon. (Sen.) Arlen Specter\nR/Pennsylvania, United States Senate\nWashington, DC\nFor Official Government Use Only\nFor Official Government Use Only\nPage 10.\nREPORT DATE: May 20, 1997\nREPORT TIME: 12:17 PM\nAccepts and No Responses\nHon. Arlen Spectre\nA\nPresident Susan Spriggs\nPresident, City Words\nA\nHon. (Rep.) Charles W. Stenholm\nD/Texas, House of Representatives\nWashington, DC\nA\nMs. Charlotte Sterling\nA\nMr George Stinson\nGeneral Converters & Assemblers\nRancine, WI\nA\nMr. Francis Joseph Stokes\nMonsanto\nSt. Louis, MO\nA\nMs Carolyn Stradley\nPres, C&S Paving\nMarietta, GA\nA\nMr Lawrence Stupski\nVice Chair, Charles Schwab\nSan Francisco, CA\nA\nMs. Diane Symms\nA\nMr. Kevin Talley\nA\nHon. (Rep.) John S. Tanner\nD/Tennessee, House of Representatives\nWashington, DC\nA\nMr Robert William Taylor\nA\nMr. William Taylor\nA\n(Gov.) Tommy G. Thompson\nGovernor of Wisconsin (R), State of Wisconsin\nMadison, WI\nA\nMr. Jonathan M. Tisch\nPresident and CEO, Loews Hotels\nNew York, NY\nA\nMr. Carl Tubbesing\nDirector of State Federal Relations, National Conference of State Legislatures\nWashington, DC\nA\nMs. Janet Tully\nDirector, Marriott International Inc.\nA\nMs. Barbara Turner\nPres, Boscart Construction\nWashington, DC\nFor Official Government Use Only\nFor Official Government Use Only\nPage 11\nREPORT DATE:\nMay 20, 1997\nREPORT TIME:\n12:17 PM\nAccepts and No Responses\nA\nMr. James D. Van Erden\nA\nMr. Vernon Vokus\nA\nMr. Sanford 1. Weill\nChairman & CEO, Travelers Group\nNew York, NY.\nA\nMR. Arnold Wellman\nA\nHon. Anne L. Wexler\nWäshington, DC\nA\nMs. Alfreda White\nA\nMs. Julia Williams\nA\nMs. Talani Wilson\nA\nMr. Roosevelt Windham\nCEO, Windham Building Co.\nBennettsville, SC\nA\nMs. Sheri Woodruff\nPress Secretary, Office of Governor Carper\nWilmington, DE\nFor Official Government Use Only\nFor Official Government Use Only\nPage 12\nREPORT DATE:\nMay 20, 1997\nREPORT TIME:\n12:17 PM\nRegrets\nR\nMr. Michael Armstrong\nCEO, Hughes Aircraft\nR\nMs. Olena Berg\nAssistant Secretary, Department of Labor\nR\nMr. Thomas Cochran\nExecutive Director, U.S. Conference of Mayors\nWashington, DC\nR\nMr. Lawrence Crawford\nCEO, Saginaw Plastic Molding\nSaginaw, MI\nR\nMs. Glenna Crumal\nPresident, Sunset Communication Ctr.\nVisalia, CA\nR\nThe Honorable Mario M. Cuomo\n(former Governor of New York), Wilkie, Farr & Gallagher\nNew York, NY\nR\nSec. William Daley\nSecretary of Commerce, Department of Commerce\nR\nMr. Alan Dean\nR\nMr. William Endicott\nBethesda, MD\nR\nMr. Frank J. Fahrenkopf\nPresident & CEO, American Gaming Association\nWashington, DC\nR\nMr. James Gallagher\nR\nMr. Robert Hoover\nPresident, Spartan Primier Staffing\nTampa, FL\nR\nMr. James Johnson\nCEO, Fannie Mae\nR\nMr. Jack Kelly\nPresident/ CEO, Perdue\nR\nmr Robert Knight\nR\nMr. Richard Lesher\nPresident, US Chamber of Commerce\nWashington, DC\nR\nMr. William Marriott\nCEO, Marriott Corporation\nWashington, DC\nFor Official Government Use Only\nFor Official Government Use Only\nPage 13\nREPORT DATE: May 20, 1997\nREPORT TIME: 12:17 PM\nRegrets\nR\nMr. Dale Marsico\nExecutive Director, Community Transportation Association of America\nWashington, DC\nR\nMr. Ira Mendelson\nCEO, Murry's Inc.\nR\nMr. Doug Miller\nPresident, Norrell Temp Services\nAtlanta, GA\nR\nMr. Toby Moffett\nBranford, CT\nR\nMr. Larry Naake\nExecutive Director, National Association of Counties\nWashington, DC\nR\nMr. Douglas Nelson\nAnnie E. Casey Foundation\nR\nMr. Richard C. Notebaert\nChairman & CEO, Ameritech Corporation\nChicago, IL\nR\nMr. Wade O'Brian\nR\nMr Benjmen Peasant\nPres, Dynamic Marketing Services\nWashington, DC\nR\nMs. Sylvia Perez\nR\nMr. Lawrence Perlmon\nR\nMr. William T. Pound\nExecutive Director, National Conference of State Legislatures\nDenver, CO\nR\nHon. Robert E. Rubin\nSecretary of the Treasury, Department of the Treasury\nWashington DC\nR\nMr. Raymond Scheppach\nExecutive Director, National Governors Association\nWashington, DC\nR\nHonorable Donna E. Shalala\nSecretary of Health & Human Services, Department of Health & Human Services\nR\nMs. Gina Slater\nPresident, The Slater Hill Group\nGreat Neck, NY\nR\nMr. Les Sterman\nFor Official Government Use Only\nFor Official Government Use Only\nPage 14\nREPORT DATE: May 20, 1997\nREPORT TIME: 12:17 PM\nRegrets\nR\nMs. Suzanne Taylor\nPresident, STA of Southern California\nR\nMr. James Tees\nR\nMr. Michael Walker\nR\nMs. Judy Wicks\nFounder, White Dog Enterprises\nPhiladelphia, PA\nFor Official Government Use Only\nFor Official Government Use Only\nPage 15\nREPORT DATE:\nMay 20, 1997\nREPORT TIME:\n12:17 PM\nTOTAL COUNTS\nNumber of Accepts:\n193\nNumber of Regrets:\n38\nNumber of No Responses:\n10\nNumber of Unknown Guests:\nO\nNumber of Expected Attendees:\n203\nFor Official Government Use Only\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nMay 19, 1997\nWELFARE TO WORK PARTNERSHIP EVENT\nDATE:\nMay 20, 1997\nLOCATION:\nThe East Room\nBRIEFING TIME:\n1:05 pm - 1:35 pm\nMEET AND GREET: 1:35 pm - 1:45 pm\nEVENT TIME:\n2:00 pm - 3:00 pm\nFROM:\nBruce Reed\n1.\nPURPOSE\nTo announce that more than 100 companies have accepted your welfare to work challenge\nand to promote your $600 million welfare to work transportation proposal.\nII.\nBACKGROUND\nYou will be addressing CEOs and senior executives from over 100 companies that have\njoined the Welfare to Work Partnership. The Welfare to Work Partnership is an\nindependent, nonpartisan, national effort which has pledged to enlist 1,000 companies\nwithin the next six months to help move those on public assistance into jobs in the private\nsector. The Partnership was formed in response to your challenge in the State of the\nUnion, and the CEOs from the companies you noted in that speech -- Sprint, Monsanto,\nUPS, Burger King, and United Airlines -- form the Partnership's Board of Directors. At\nthis event, United Airlines Corporation CEO Gerald Greenwald will be named the\nChairman of the Board.\nCiting transportation as one of the biggest barriers in moving from welfare to work, you\nwill announce that the Department of Transportation is awarding grants to 24 states to\ndevelop strategies to solve this problem. In addition, you will urge Congress to enact\nyour $600 million welfare to work transportation initiative, which is part of the\nAdministration's NEXTEA transportation proposal.\nThis is also an opportunity to praise two of your key welfare to work initiatives included\nin the budget agreement: 1) the $3 billion Welfare to Work fund for cities and states to\ncreate job opportunities for welfare recipients; and 2) the enhanced tax credit which would\ngive companies that hire long-term welfare recipients a 50% tax credit on the first $10,000\nof wages paid over two years.\nYou will also be joined by the Vice President, who will announce a new campaign --\nbeginning with a conference on May 29th -- to help those who leave welfare retain jobs.\nIII.\nPARTICIPANTS\nBriefing Participants:\nErskine Bowles\nSecretary Slater\nEli Segal\nBruce Reed\nMaria Echaveste\nCynthia Rice\nCheri Carter\nParticipants in Speaking Program:\nThe Vice President\nEli Segal, President and CEO, Welfare to Work Partnership\nGerald Greenwald, Chairman, Welfare to Work Partnership, and CEO of United Airlines.\nGovernor Tommy Thompson, Wisconsin\nGovernor Tom Carper, Delaware\nGeorge Stinson, Wisconsin small business owner, whose company workforce is more than\nhalf former welfare recipients.\nParticipants in Meet and Greet in Roosevelt Room prior to event:\n(See attached list.)\nIV.\nPRESS PLAN\nOpen Press.\nV.\nSEQUENCE OF EVENTS\n- You will be announced onto the stage accompanied by the Vice President.\n- The Vice President will make brief remarks and introduce Gerald Greenwald.\n- Gerald Greenwald makes remarks and introduces Governor Carper.\n- Governor Carper makes remarks and introduces Governor Thompson.\n- Governor Thompson makes remarks and introduces George Stinson.\n- George Stinson makes remarks and introduces you.\n- You will make remarks and then depart.\nVI.\nREMARKS\nRemarks provided by speech writing.\nWELFARE TO WORK MEET AND GREET\nRoosevelt Room - May 20, 1997\nSecretary Rodney Slater\nSecretary Alexis Herman\nSecretary Andrew Cuomo\nSBA Administrator Ada Alvarez\nDeputy Secretary Kevin Thurm\nDennis Malamatinas, CEO, Burger King\nRobert Shapiro, CEO, Monsanto\nGerald Greenwald, CEO, United Airlines\nLea Soupata, Senior Vice President, UPS\nRonald Compton, Chairman and CEO, Aetna\nDuncan Pollack, Chairman and CEO, Ammirati Puris Lintas\nBarbara Turner, President, Boscart\nCarolyn Stradley, President and Owner, C&S Paving\nRussell Meyer, President and CEO, Cessna Corporation\nLawrence Stupski, Vice Chairman, Charles Schwab\nThomas Brosig, President, Grand Casinos\nGeorge Stinson, Chairman and President\nPhilip G. Satre, President and CEO, Harrah's Casinos\nEdward Kuntz, Living Centers of America\nJonathon Tisch, President and CEO Loew's Hotels\nMitchell Fromstein President and CEO, Manpower\nRachel Hubka, President and Owner, Rachel's Bus Company\nAlbert Hoser, President and CEO, Siemens\nWilliam Esrey, Chairman and CEO, Sprint\nGerald Levin, Chairman and CEO Time Warner\nSanford Weill, Chairman, The Travelers Group\nEli Segal, Welfare to Work Partnership\nKate Carr, Welfare to Work Partnership\nLyn-Hogan, Welfare to Work Partnership\nMOVING AMERICANS FROM WELFARE TO WORK:\nTHE FEDERAL-NGA WELFARE TO WORK TRANSPORTATION INITIATIVE\n\"Each and every one of us has to fulfill our responsibility - indeed, our moral obligation\n-- to make sure that people who now must work, can work.\"\nPresident Bill Clinton,\nState of the Union Address, February 4, 1997\nOne of the biggest barriers facing those making the move from welfare rolls to\npayrolls is access to jobs, training, and support services such as day care. Two-\nthirds of new jobs are in the suburbs, but three of four welfare recipients live in\nrural areas or central cities. Their access to these jobs is limited: few welfare\nrecipients own cars, and public transit, which provides a crucial lifeline for many\nlower-income Americans, often provides inadequate connections to new\nemployment opportunities in the suburbs.\nThe Department of Transportation is contributing $330,000 towards a partnership\nwith the National Governors' Association (NGA). This will be used for grants to\nstates to help them develop transportation strategies that support their welfare to\nwork efforts. This partnership recognizes that those making the transition from\nwelfare to work must largely depend on public transportation to reach jobs and\nother employment-support services, and that cooperation among federal, state,\ncounty, and local governments and the private sector is crucial.\nParticipating states, led by their Governors' offices, are forming interagency task\nforces to coordinate transportation with welfare reform initiatives. The groups\ninclude state, county, and local human services agencies, along with local\ntransportation providers, community human resource organizations, and private\nemployers.\nState welfare to work transportation action plans will be completed during 1997.\nThey are expected to emphasize coordinating existing public transportation,\nhuman services, and private programs that enable welfare recipients to get to\nwhere the jobs are.\n24 states and one territory are participating: Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut,\nDelaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota,\nMississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, South\nCarolina, Tennessee, Texas, the Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin,\nand Wyoming.\nWELFARE TO WORK\nMay 20, 1997\nThe Welfare to Work Partnership\nToday President Clinton announced that over 100 companies have accepted his State of\nthe Union challenge to forge \"a new national effort to marshal America's businesses, large and\nsmall, to create jobs so that people can move from welfare to work.\" CEOs and senior executives\nfrom the companies joined the President to launch the Welfare to Work Partnership, a private,\nnon-profit organization which will lead the national business effort to hire people from the\nwelfare rolls. The Partnership pledged to enlist 1,000 companies within the next six months and\nnamed United Airlines Corporation CEO Gerald Greenwald its Chairman of the Board.\nThe Welfare to Work Partnership is an independent, nonpartisan, national effort of the\nAmerican business community to help move those on public assistance into jobs in the private\nsector. The Partnership will provide information, technical assistance, and support for all\ninterested companies. The Partnership was formed in response to the President's challenge in his\n1997 State of the Union speech, and the CEOs from the five companies the President noted in\nthat speech -- Sprint, Monsanto, UPS, Burger King, and United Airlines -- form the Partnership's\nBoard of Directors. Since signing the welfare law last August, the President has launched an\naggressive campaign to challenge both the public and private sector to help welfare reform\nsucceed. The President signaled his commitment to work with the corporate community by\nholding a White House meeting with 14 company CEOs in January 1997. After that meeting five\ncompanies made a commitment to lead a national welfare to work effort.\nThe President's Welfare to Work Transportation Initiative\nCiting transportation as one of the biggest barriers in moving from welfare to work,\nPresident Clinton today announced grants to 24 states to develop strategies to solve this problem.\nThe President urged Congress to enact his $600 million welfare to work transportation initiative,\npart of his NEXTEA transportation proposal.\nTwo-thirds of new jobs are in the suburbs, but three of four welfare recipients live in rural\nareas or central cities. Only six percent of welfare recipients own cars, and public transit often\nprovides inadequate connections to job and training centers. To combat this problem, the\nPresident today urged Congress to adopt the six-year, $600 million grant program in his\nNEXTEA transportation bill that would support flexible, innovative transportation systems in\nrural, urban, and suburban areas to get people where the jobs are. Today, the President also\nannounced grants to 24 states and the Virgin Islands to develop, welfare to work transportation\nplans. The grants are being awarded by the Department of Transportation's Federal Transit\nAdministration and the Federal Highway Administration in cooperation with the National\nGovernors' Association.\nA Balanced Budget that Helps Move People from Welfare to Work\nThe President praised the new budget agreement which includes two critical welfare to\nwork initiatives. The first is a $3 billion Welfare to Work fund for cities and states to create job\nopportunities for welfare recipients. This proposal, a centerpiece of the President's second-term\nagenda, will help move one million adults from welfare to work. The budget agreement also\nincludes the President's proposed enhanced tax credit which would give companies that hire\nlong-term welfare recipients a 50% tax credit on the first $10,000 of wages paid over two years.\nVice Presidential Initiatives\nTo ensure that former welfare recipients succeed in the workplace, Vice President Gore\ntoday announced a new campaign, beginning with a conference on May 29th, to help those\nleaving welfare retain jobs.\nIn addition to this new campaign, the Vice President is overseeing the federal\ngovernment's hiring initiative. The President has committed the federal government, the nation's\nlargest employer, to do its part to hire people from the welfare rolls. On April 10th the President\nheld the first full Cabinet meeting of his second term in which federal agencies pledged to directly\nhire at least 10,000 welfare recipients over the next four years.\nToday's Program\nThe President was joined today by the Vice President, Mr. Greenwald, Partnership\nPresident Eli J. Segal, Delaware Governor Tom Carper, Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson,\nand small business owner George R. Stinson of Racine, Wisconsin, whose company workforce is\nmore than half former welfare recipients.\nMOVING AMERICANS FROM WELFARE TO WORK:\nTHE FEDERAL-NGA WELFARE TO WORK TRANSPORTATION INITIATIVE\n\"Each and every one of us has to fulfill our responsibility -- indeed, our moral obligation\n-- to make sure that people who now must work, can work.\"\nPresident Bill Clinton,\nState of the Union Address, February 4, 1997\nOne of the biggest barriers facing those making the move from welfare rolls to\npayrolls is access to jobs, training, and support services such as day care. Two-\nthirds of new jobs are in the suburbs, but three of four welfare recipients live in\nrural areas or central cities. Their access to these jobs is limited: few welfare\nrecipients own cars, and public transit, which provides a crucial lifeline for many\nlower-income Americans, often provides inadequate connections to new\nemployment opportunities in the suburbs.\nThe Department of Transportation is contributing $330,000 towards a partnership\nwith the National Governors' Association (NGA). This will be used for grants to\nstates to help them develop transportation strategies that support their welfare to\nwork efforts. This partnership recognizes that those making the transition from\nwelfare to work must largely depend on public transportation to reach jobs and\nother employment-support services, and that cooperation among federal, state,\ncounty, and local governments and the private sector is crucial.\nParticipating states, led by their Governors' offices, are forming interagency task\nforces to coordinate transportation with welfare reform initiatives. The groups\ninclude state, county, and local human services agencies, along with local\ntransportation providers, community human resource organizations, and private\nemployers.\nState welfare to work transportation action plans will be completed during 1997.\nThey are expected to emphasize coordinating existing public transportation,\nhuman services, and private programs that enable welfare recipients to get to\nwhere the jobs are.\n24 states and one territory are participating: Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut,\nDelaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota,\nMississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, South\nCarolina, Tennessee, Texas, the Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin,\nand Wyoming.\nWelfare to Work\nMay 20, 1997\nQ&A\nCompany Hiring\nQuestion:\nHow many companies have committed to hire welfare recipients?\nAnswer:\nToday, over 100 companies committed to hire people from the welfare rolls --\nand the Partnership's new Chairman, Gerald Greenwald today pledged to sign up\n1,000 companies within six months.\nQuestion:\nHow many employees have they promised to hire?\nAnswer:\nCompanies weren't asked to make specific commitments, but many have anyway.\nFor example, United Airlines has pledged to hire 2,000 people on welfare by the\nend of the year 2000. Cessna currently employs 150 welfare recipients and plans\nto hire 50 more.\nQuestion:\nWill these companies displace other workers in order to hire welfare recipients?\nAnswer:\nNo. An explicit part of the commitment each company has made is to hire and\nretain former welfare recipients without displacing other workers.\nQuestion:\nWill the companies pay health benefits?\nAnswer:\nWe expect companies to treat former welfare recipients like any other\nworkers, which includes providing health benefits if they are provided to other\nworkers.\nWelfare to Work Partnership\nQuestion:\nWhat is the Welfare to Work Partnership?\nAnswer:\nThe Partnership is a national, independent, nonpartisan effort of the business\ncommunity to help move people on public assistance to jobs in the private sector.\nThe Partnership will concentrate on energizing the business community to hire and\nretain welfare recipients without displacement of existing workers.\nThe Partnership provides information, technical assistance and support for businesses\nof all sizes, from all industries and from all areas of the country.\nQuestion:\nWhat are the goals of the Partnership?\nAnswer:\nIn the first year, the Partnership plans to build an expanding network of companies\ncommitted to hiring and retaining persons on public assistance. In addition to\nmobilizing companies, the Partnership will publish and broadly- disseminate a best\npractices manual of private sector initiatives and promising public-private alliances\nat the state and local levels. It expects to develop a comprehensive, customer-friendly\ndatabase of organizations which provide job training and readiness, child care and\nrelated services.\nQuestion:\nWho are the five founding corporations?\nAnswer:\nThe founding companies of the Partnership are United Airlines, Burger King,\nMonsanto Company, Sprint Corporation, and United Parcel Services of America.\nUnited Airlines CEO Gerald Greenwald is the chairman of the board.\nQuestion:\nWho can participate in the Partnership?\nAnswer:\nMembership is open to all businesses, large or small, who are committed to\neither hiring and retaining those on public assistance without displacing existing\nworkers.\nQuestion:\nWhy should businesses get involved with the Partnership or any other type\nof welfare reform effort?\nAnswer:\nBecause it makes good business sense. Today many companies find it difficult to\nlocate entry-level workers. By actively recruiting welfare recipients, companies will\ngreatly enlarge their pool of potential entry-level workers, a pool of workers that\ncompanies have previously not actively recruited. In addition, companies will have\nthe knowledge that they are actively participating in their communities to strengthen\nfamilies and improve children's lives.\nToday's Speakers\nQuestion:\nWhy was Governor Thompson invited to speak?\nAnswer:\nWe invited two governors to speak today -- Governor Tommy Thompson (R-\nWisc.) and Governor Tom Carper (D-Del.). Both were intimately involved in\ndeveloping the welfare reform proposals the President signed into law, and both have\nbeen welfare reform leaders in their own states -- so it seemed appropriate to have\nthem here today. In addition, today the President announced transportation planning\ngrants to 24 states, which were given in cooperation with the National Governors'\nAssociation.\nQuestion:\nTell me more about the small business owner speaking today.\nAnswer:\nGeorge R. Stinson is the President and owner of General Converters and\nAssemblers, Inc. in Racine, Wisconsin. More than half his workforce is former\nwelfare recipients. He is currently expanding his plant and plans to fill many of the\n100 new positions with welfare recipients. An African American, Stinson says that\none of his primary concerns as an employer is to hire and provide on-the-job training\nto persons without much job experience.\nTransportation Announcement\nQuestion:\nWhy is the President talking about new transportation funding now, after the\nbudget has been agreed to?\nAnswer:\nWith the budget agreement in place, the Congressional Committees are about\nto take up the ISTEA reauthorization -- so now is exactly the right time for the\nPresident to highlight the welfare to work provisions of the transportation bill he sent\nto the Hill earlier this spring. Also, many of the business leaders involved in the\nWelfare to Work Partnership have told us how important transportation will be to\ntheir ability to hire welfare recipients, so today's event seemed like a good time to\ndiscuss the President's welfare to work transportation proposal.\nIn general, the budget negotiations assume the reauthorization of ISTEA,\nalthough the level of transportation spending within the domestic discretionary\ncategory has been under some discussion recently. But the budget agreement\ncertainly leaves room for the President's $600 million welfare to work transportation\nproposal.\nQuestion:\nWhat does the President's transportation proposal do?\nAnswer:\nThe President's NEXTEA transportation bill:\nInvests $600 Million to Improve Access to Jobs and Training. NEXTEA\nincludes a six-year, $600 million grant program to support innovative\ntransportation initiatives, such as vanpools, to get people where the jobs are.\nIncreases Job Training Opportunities in Transportation Technology and\nConstruction. NEXTEA opens opportunities in transportation by increasing\nincentives for states and localities to provide job training in conjunction with\nfederally-funding technology and construction projects and enabling them to\noffer hiring preferences favoring welfare recipients and residents of\nEmpowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities.\nQuestion:\nWhat can the $600 million be used for?\nAnswer:\nStates, local governments, and private, non-profit organizations could\napply for grants to plan and implement new transportation services targeted at linking\nwelfare recipients with jobs.\nQuestion:\nWould the proposal allow welfare recipients to be hired at the expense of\nother workers?\nAnswer:\nNo. What the President's bill does allow is what are called \"local hiring\npreferences\" allowing transportation contractors to provide a preference to equally\nqualified welfare recipients and residents of Enterprise Zones and Enterprise\nCommunities who apply for construction and related jobs.\nQuestion:\nThe grants the President announced today seem pretty small. Do you expect\nthem to accomplish anything?\nAnswer:\nThese grants, provided by the Department of Transportation in cooperation\nwith the National Governors' Association, will enable states and communities to\ndevelop strategies that support welfare to work efforts. They will bring state and local\nwelfare, training, and transportation authorities together to address this problem in\na strategic way. But these are just seed grants for developing plans -- that's why the\nPresident has proposed a comprehensive, $600 million fund for welfare to work\ntransportation services.\nWhite House Hiring\nQuestion:\nMore than a month ago, the White House pledged to hire welfare recipients?\nHave any been hired?\nAnswer:\nYes, one former welfare recipient has already been hired, and the departments\nare reviewing resumes to fill the remaining positions.\nMinimum Wage\nQuestion:\nWill the Administration's announcement last week that employers must pay\nwelfare recipients the minimum wage make it harder for companies to hire welfare\nrecipients?\nAnswer:\nNo. Private companies have always had to pay the minimum wage and\nfollow the Fair Labor Standards Act for those workers who are \"employees\" instead\nof \"trainees.\" The confusion lay primarily in whether the law required government-\nsponsored workfare to pay the minimum wage. Our lawyers believe that most\nwelfare recipients participating in the work activities such as workfare will legally\ncount as \"employees.\"\nQuestion:\nWon't this end welfare reform as we know it by making work more expensive\nfor states?\nAnswer:\nNot at all. With both TANF and food stamps counting toward the minimum\nwage, every state except Mississippi will be able to give welfare recipients workfare\nslots for 20 hours a week (the welfare law's current requirement) without raising their\nbenefit levels. And of course states should be trying to place welfare recipients in\nprivate sector jobs where the minimum wage already applies -- that's why having so\nmany companies commit today to hiring welfare recipients is so important.\nQuestion:\nWill the Administration support changes to the welfare law so workfare\nprograms don't have to pay the minimum wage?\nAnswer:\nWe would oppose legislation that flatly exempts welfare recipients from the\nminimum wage law. The Administration believes that people who work should be\npaid at least the minimum wage.\nQuestion:\nWould you oppose any legislation addressing this issue?\nAnswer:\nNot necessarily, but any legislation would have to be consistent with our support for\nthe minimum wage. In determining how the minimum wage applies to workfare, the\nAdministration has had to address a host of technical issues that Congress did not\ndeal with in passing the welfare law. If Congress wants to address these issues, the\nAdministration will consider the proposals carefully. But any legislation must reflect\nthe Administration's position that people who work should be paid at least the\nminimum wage.\nWelfare Privatization\nQuestion:\nI understand Erskine Bowles and other White House officials plan to meet\nwith members of the Texas Congressional delegation this week. Is this the beginning\nof a negotiation over welfare privatization?\nAnswer:\nNo, we are not taking part in any negotiation. The purpose of the meetings\nis simply to answer any questions the Congressional delegation may have regarding\nthe response that the Administration provided to the state of Texas last week\nregarding what kinds of privatization is allowed under current law.\nQuestion:\nIs the Administration going to approve Wisconsin's request to privatize\nwelfare and food stamp offices in some parts of the state?\nAnswer:\nWe have not yet responded to Wisconsin's request.\nVice Presidential Announcement\nQuestion:\nThe Vice President announced he'll chair a conference on May 29th.\nWhat's the subject?\nAnswer:\nThe conference will focus on job retention strategies and will include a panel\nof groups that have helped former welfare recipients become successful workers.\nQuestion:\nWhat's the purpose of the conference?\nAnswer:\nThe Vice President and his staff have been meeting with a wide range of civic\norganizations to discuss their role in welfare reform. Of course, many of these groups\nhave been contributing to their communities for more than a century, so public\nservice is nothing new to them.\nQuestion:\nIs there any particular model the Vice President favors?\nAnswer:\nThe panelists are from a variety of types of programs -- nonprofits, like the\nStrive program in New York which was recently featured on 60 Minutes; America\nWorks, the successful, private sector job placement and retention company; and\npublic sector, such as the Social Security Administration, which has a long record of\nsuccessfully hiring welfare recipients. The Vice President is particularly intrigued by\nwhat State Comptroller John Sharp has done in Texas. The Texas Pathfinders project\nhas paired welfare recipients with community mentors to help them make the\ntransition to self-sufficiency.\nWelfare To Work Discussion\nIndian Treaty Room\nThe Old Executive Office Building\n3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.\nAgenda\nModerator\nI\nBruce Reed\nAssistant to the President for Domestic Policy\nThe White House\nDiscussants\nAida Alvarez\nAdministrator\nU.S. Small Business Association\nOlivia Golden\nAssistant Secretary for Children and Families\nU.S. Department of Health and Human Services\nRon Haskins\nMajority Staff Director\nWays and Means Human Resources Subcommittee\nUnited States House of Representatives\nI\nEli Segal\nPresident and CEO\nWelfare to Work Partnership\nPhil Singerman\nEconomic Development Agency\nU.S. Department of Commerce\nRay Uhalde\nActing Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training\nU.S. Department of Labor\nThe White House\nWashington\nAGENDA\nWhite House Briefing on Welfare Reform and Transportation\nTuesday, May 20, 1997\nRoom 450, 10:30 a.m.\n********\nWELCOME AND INTRODUCTION\nRodney Slater\nSecretary of Transportation\nREMARKS\nACCESS TO JOBS LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL\nGordon Linton\nAdministrator, Federal Transit Administration\nPROVISIONS FOR TRAINING AND LOCAL HIRING PREFERENCES\nJane Garvey\nActing Administrator, Federal Highway Administration\nST. LOUIS EAST-WEST GATEWAY MODEL\nHon. Clarence Harmon\nMayor of St. Louis, Missouri\nWELFARE REFORM\nBruce Reed\nAssistant to the President for Domestic Policy\nQUESTIONS AND COMMENTS\n********\nNEXTEA\nTHE NATIONAL ECONOMIC CROSSROADS\nTRANSPORTATION EFFICIENCY ACT\nMOVING AMERICANS FROM\nWELFARE TO WORK\nOF\nSPARTMENT\nTRANSPORTATION\nUNITED\nAMERICA\nSTATES OF\nMAY 20, 1997\nMOVING AMERICANS FROM WELFARE TO WORK\nPRESIDENT CLINTON'S PLAN TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO JOBS AND TRAINING\n\"Each and every one of us has to fulfill our responsibility -- indeed, our moral obligation --\nto make sure that people who now must work, can work.\"\nPresident Bill Clinton,\nState of the Union Address, February 4, 1997\nTo support his comprehensive welfare reform initiative, President Clinton proposes to build on\nexisting transportation programs that use innovative strategies to help people make the transition\nto the working world.\nOne of the biggest barriers facing those moving from welfare rolls to payrolls is finding\ntransportation to jobs, training, and support services such as day care. Two-thirds of new jobs are\nin the suburbs, but three of four welfare recipients live in rural areas or central cities. Few welfare\nrecipients own cars, and public transit, which provides a crucial lifeline for many lower-income\nAmericans, often provides inadequate connections to new employment opportunities in the\nsuburbs far from where most welfare recipients live.\nThe President's proposal for the National Economic Crossroads Transportation Efficiency Act\n(NEXTEA), which would authorize federal highway and transit programs from 1998 through\n2003, includes several provisions to improve welfare recipients' access to jobs and training.\nINVESTING $600 MILLION TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO JOBS AND TRAINING\nNEXTEA includes a six-year, $600 million incentive grant program to support new\ntransportation services to get people to where the jobs are, including flexible, innovative\nalternatives such as vanpools. Funding also would provide access to training and to\nsupport services such as day care at transit stations.\nCREATING JOB-TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES IN TRANSPORTATION\nTECHNOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTION\nSince transportation and construction jobs are among America's best-paying, we want to\nopen opportunities in these fields to welfare recipients and other disadvantaged people.\nNEXTEA would increase incentives for states and localities to provide job training in\nconjunction with federally funded technology and construction projects, enable them to\noffer hiring preferences favoring welfare recipients and residents of Empowerment Zones\nand Enterprise Communities, and sustain the federal commitment to Disadvantaged\nBusiness Enterprise programs.\nMOVING AMERICANS FROM WELFARE TO WORK\nTHE CHALLENGE\nOne of the biggest barriers facing those making the move from welfare rolls to payrolls is access\nto jobs, training, and support services such as day care. Two-thirds of new jobs are in the\nsuburbs, but three of four welfare recipients live in rural areas or central cities. Their access to\nthese jobs is limited: only one in 20 welfare recipients owns a car, and mass transit generally\noperates either within central cities or from suburbs into cities. Transit also often does not meet\nthe needs of off-hour shift workers or those with small children who require day care. The studies\nbelow show the challenges faced by welfare recipients in three cities.\nCleveland\nCleveland's economy has been expanding, but that growth has been concentrated in the suburbs.\nA study by Case Western Reserve University (Contact: Neil Bania, 216-368-8670) showed that\nthe entry-level jobs being generated cannot easily be reached by public transit. Fewer than half of\nentry-level jobs are accessible from central city neighborhoods within an 80-minute transit ride,\nleaving the other half essentially out of reach of Cleveland's welfare population.\nBoston\nA study prepared by the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Contact: Annalynn\nLacombe, 617-494-2161) found that the highest growth in entry-level jobs was along Route 128,\nwell outside of central Boston. Boston has an excellent transit system, with stations within a half-\nmile of 99 percent of the city's welfare recipients. Still, it does not provide needed connections to\navailable jobs: only 43 percent of employers are also within a half-mile of transit lines. Moreover,\n40 percent of all employers in high-growth areas can be reached only after a commute of more\nthan two hours.\nAtlanta\nAn ongoing Emory University study (Contact: Michael Rich, 404-727-7449) indicates that three\nof every four jobs in the Atlanta area are in the suburbs. Two-thirds of entry level jobs paying less\nthan $15,000 annually are within a quarter-mile of a transit line; however, fewer than one of three\nentry-level jobs paying more than $15,000 annually - those most likely to enable welfare\nrecipients to become self-sufficient -- are located within the same distance from transit.\nMOVING AMERICANS FROM WELFARE TO WORK\nDETAILS OF THE PRESIDENT'S WELFARE TO WORK TRANSPORTATION PLAN\nThe President's proposal for the National Economic Crossroads Transportation Efficiency Act\n(NEXTEA), which would authorize federal highway and transit programs from 1998 through\n2003, includes several provisions to improve access to jobs and training.\n$600 million in new funds. NEXTEA includes a six-year, $600 million incentive grant\nprogram to support welfare reform efforts. Funds are available to assist states, local\ngovernments, and private, nonprofit organizations to plan and implement new\ntransportation services to link welfare recipients with jobs.\nTargeted grants. Grants would be targeted based on both the size of the welfare\npopulation and the area's willingness to address the transportation needs of welfare\nrecipients through a comprehensive, strategic approach. Criteria include the severity of\nthe welfare problem; the need for services to transport people to jobs, training, and\nsupport services; mechanisms to coordinate transportation and human resource services\nplanning; and state and local shared financial commitment and coordination.\nState and local partnerships. Federal funds would provide 50 percent of the project\ncosts, with grant recipients supplying the remaining 50 percent. Other federal funds could\nbe used as part of the local match.\nBroad eligibility. Grants could be used for a wide range of purposes, including:\noperating and capital costs for services; coordination of transportation services; promotion\nof employer-provided transportation; and planning and developing support facilities, such\nas child care, at transit sites.\nFederal technical assistance. Federal funding would provide grant recipients with\ntechnical assistance to evaluate programs and to establish benchmarks for best practices.\nEnhanced on-the-job training. Other provisions of NEXTEA allow states to reserve a\ncertain of number training slots for welfare recipients; to include technology-training\nopportunities in connection with transportation-related technologies; and to increase funds\navailable for DOT's On-the-Job Supportive Services Program.\nHiring preferences favoring welfare recipients and Employment Zone/Enterprise\nCommunity residents. The $20 billion-per-year federal highway construction program\nwould allow states to offer hiring preferences favoring welfare recipients and residents of\nEmployment Zones or Enterprise Communities.\nMore funding for proven programs. The President's 1998 budget seeks $10 million to\nexpand HUD's successful Bridges to Work Program, which provides job placement and\nsupport services, as well as transportation to link city residents with jobs.\nMOVING AMERICANS FROM WELFARE TO WORK\nBENCHMARKS: TODAY'S SUCCESS STORIES\nFederal Initiatives\nDOT's Joblinks program provides transportation and training in both urban and rural\nareas. Oregon's Glendale-Azalea School District uses Joblinks funds to transport the\nunemployed to training and jobs.\nDOT's Livable Communities program integrates transit with jobs, schools, and housing.\nIn Corpus Christi, residents worked with local officials to develop three bus transfer\ncenters and to improve pedestrian access to area amenities.\nDOT's On-the-Job Training (OJT) Program requires that federally funded highway\nprojects provide apprenticeships and training positions in higher-paying transportation\ntrades, such as carpentry, concrete finishing, and truck driving. These help women,\nminorities, and disadvantaged people move into America's vibrant construction industry.\nDOT's On-the-Job Training Supportive Services Program complements the OJT program\nby providing contractors, apprentices, and trainees with such services as recruitment,\ncounseling and job placement, transportation, child care, and skills training. In addition, a\nhighway construction project in Maine is using regular federal funding to provide day care\nfor women workers making the transition from welfare.\nHUD's Bridges to Work Program connects inner-city residents with suburban employers\nthrough local partners who provide job placement, transportation, and support services.\nDemonstrations are underway in Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Milwaukee, and St. Louis.\nState and Local Initiatives\nSt. Louis East-West Gateway Coordinating Council: 16 agencies coordinate to access jobs\nalong the Metrolink rail line and to use vans and express buses that connect inner-city\nemployees with suburban employers.\nSoutheast Arkansas Transportation (SEAT): during off-hours, unused senior citizen\nservice buses in rural Jefferson County transport welfare recipients to jobs and training.\nBaltimore, Maryland: vanpools link residents of disadvantaged central city neighborhoods\nto employers at and around Baltimore-Washington International Airport.\nThe Transit Authority of River City, Louisville, Kentucky: new express bus service to the\nBluegrass Industrial Park cut trip times from two hours to less than 40 minutes.\nTalahina, Oklahoma: the success of shuttles serving the graveyard shift at poultry\nprocessing plants in Fort Smith, Arkansas has served as a model for similar services to\nother employment centers in Oklahoma.\nMOVING AMERICANS FROM WELFARE TO WORK\nFEDERAL-NGA WELFARE TO WORK TRANSPORTATION INITIATIVE\nOne of the biggest barriers facing those making the move from welfare rolls to payrolls is\naccess to jobs, training, and support services such as day care. Two-thirds of new jobs are\nin the suburbs, but three of four welfare recipients live in rural areas or central cities.\nTheir access to these jobs is limited: few welfare recipients own cars, and public transit,\nwhich provides a crucial lifeline for many lower-income Americans, often provides\ninadequate connections to new employment opportunities in the suburbs far from where\nmost welfare recipients live.\nDOT is contributing $330,000 towards a partnership with the National Governors'\nAssociation (NGA). This will be used for grants to states to help them develop\ntransportation strategies that support their welfare to work efforts. This partnership\nrecognizes that those making the transition from welfare to work must largely depend on\npublic transportation to reach jobs and other employment-support services, and that\ncooperation among federal, state, county, and local governments and the private sector is\ncrucial.\nParticipating states, led by their Governors' offices, are forming interagency task forces to\ncoordinate transportation with welfare reform initiatives. The groups include state,\ncounty, and local human services agencies, along with local transportation providers,\ncommunity human resource organizations, and private employers.\nState welfare to work transportation action plans will be completed during 1997. They\nare expected to emphasize coordinating existing public transportation, human services,\nand private programs that enable welfare recipients to get to where the jobs are.\n24 states and one territory are participating: Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware,\nIllinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri,\nNebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, the\nVirgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.\nMOVING AMERICANS FROM WELFARE TO WORK:\nTHE FEDERAL-NGA WELFARE TO WORK TRANSPORTATION INITIATIVE\n\"Each and every one of us has to fulfill our responsibility -- indeed, our moral obligation\n-- to make sure that people who now must work, can work.\"\nPresident Bill Clinton,\nState of the Union Address, February 4, 1997\nOne of the biggest barriers facing those making the move from welfare rolls to\npayrolls is access to jobs, training, and support services such as day care. Two-\nthirds of new jobs are in the suburbs, but three of four welfare recipients live in\nrural areas or central cities. Their access to these jobs is limited: few welfare\nrecipients own cars, and public transit, which provides a crucial lifeline for many\nlower-income Americans, often provides inadequate connections to new\nemployment opportunities in the suburbs.\nThe Department of Transportation is contributing $330,000 towards a partnership\nwith the National Governors' Association (NGA). This will be used for grants to\nstates to help them develop transportation strategies that support their welfare to\nwork efforts. This partnership recognizes that those making the transition from\nwelfare to work must largely depend on public transportation to reach jobs and\nother employment-support services, and that cooperation among federal, state,\ncounty, and local governments and the private sector is crucial.\nParticipating states, led by their Governors' offices, are forming interagency task\nforces to coordinate transportation with welfare reform initiatives. The groups\ninclude state, county, and local human services agencies, along with local\ntransportation providers, community human resource organizations, and private\nemployers.\nState welfare to work transportation action plans will be completed during 1997.\nThey are expected to emphasize coordinating existing public transportation,\nhuman services, and private programs that enable welfare recipients to get to\nwhere the jobs are.\n24 states and one territory are participating: Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut,\nDelaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota,\nMississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, South\nCarolina, Tennessee, Texas, the Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin,\nand Wyoming.\nChrista Robinson\n05/20/97 11:52:05 AM\nRecord Type:\nRecord\nTo:\nCathy R. Mays/OPD/EOP, Cynthia A. Rice/OPD/EOP, Bruce N. Reed/OPD/EOP\ncc:\nSubject: Welfare to Work event\nForwarded by Christa Robinson/OPD/EOP on 05/20/97 11:59 AM\nAnn M. Cattalini\n05/20/97 11:44:44 AM\nRecord Type:\nRecord\nTo:\nSee the distribution list at the bottom of this message\nCC:\nSubject: Welfare to Work event\nThe following Members of Congress will be attending the Welfare to Work meet and greet in the\nRoosevelt Room and then attending the event in the East Room:\nSenator Arlen Specter (R-PA)\nRep. Sander Levin (D-MI)\nRep. Bill Goodling (R-PA) -- tenative\nRep. John Tanner (D-TN)\nRep. Clay Shaw (R-FL)\nRep. 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