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Travel Patterns and Welfare to Work

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  • Ong, Paul
  • Houston, Douglas

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The nation is about to enter into the second stage of welfare reform with its federal reauthorization within the upcoming year. The first stage of welfare reform started with the enactment of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), which transformed welfare from an income entitlement program to a transition-to-work program. As the federal and state governments reauthorize welfare reform with the goal of refining existing policies and programs to enhance the ability of welfare recipients to find and hold employment, it is worthwhile to examine what we have learned about the travel patterns of welfare-to-work participants during the initial phase of welfare to work. The shift to a jobs-first approach has made transportation barriers a top priority (Blumenberg and Ong, 2001). Our recent research demonstrates that employment and earnings are tied to access to private and public transportation (Ong, 2001; Ong et al., 2001; Ong and Houston, forthcoming). Here, we examine another dimension of the nexus between welfare reform and transportation: the impact on travel patterns.

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  • Ong, Paul & Houston, Douglas, 2002. "Travel Patterns and Welfare to Work," University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers qt6nz0h6j4, University of California Transportation Center.
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    2. Paul M. Ong, 2002. "Car ownership and welfare-to-work," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 21(2), pages 239-252.
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