Working Welfare Recipients: A Comparison of the Family Support Act and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act

Authors

Lindsay Mara Schoen, Fordham University School of Law

Abstract

This Note compares the work requirements of the Family Support Act ("FSA") with those promulgated by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act ("PRWORA") This Note concludes that the fairest and most effective welfare program offers a combination of work, education, and training, and proposes suggestions for implementing the existing work requirements to ensure long-term self sufficiency for welfare recipients.

Recommended Citation

Lindsay Mara Schoen, Working Welfare Recipients: A Comparison of the Family Support Act and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, 24 Fordham Urb. L.J. 635 (1997).
Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol24/iss3/7