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Andrea Kane 1/27/2000. 06:18 PM Record Type: Record To: "Harrington, Alex" <[email protected]> CC: Ann O'Leary/OPD/EOP@EOP Julie T. Bosland/OPD/EOP@EOP, Margy Waller/OPD/EOP@EOP bcc: Subject: Re: Impact of Welfare Recipients on Metropolitan Labor Markets We'd be interested in getting more info - sounds like an interesting report. I'l be out on Dec 1, so pls send the press release to Julie Bosland and Margy Waller. thanks "Harrington, Alex" <[email protected]> "Harrington, Alex" <[email protected]> 11/27/2000 03:27:31 PM Record Type: Record To: Ann O'Leary/OPD/EOP, Andrea Kane/OPD/EOP, Julie T. Bosland/OPD/EOP CC: Subject: Impact of Welfare Recipients on Metropolitan Labor Markets On December 7, the Urban Institute's Assessing the New Federalism project plans to release a policy brief, Did Metropolitan Areas Absorb Welfare Recipients without Displacing Other Workers?. If you want to participate in the release of this paper, please reply to this message. Among the key findings: * Despite the significant flow of single mothers into the job market, the 20 metropolitan areas studied generated more than enough jobs to employ all the single mothers entering the job market. * Surprisingly, welfare reform and the added single mothers in the labor force did not appear to shortchange other less-educated workers in these 20 metropolitan areas. * Even in metropolitan areas with high unemployment and high welfare caseloads, employment growth was achieved without detrimental outcomes for competing workers. The metropolitan areas studied are Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, St. Louis, and Washington, DC. The research is based on CPS data from two periods: September 1995 through July 1996 and September 1998 through July 1999.