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TANF Reauthorization: The Bush Administration Proposal and Wisconsin's W-2 Program2001, Fendt, Pamela & Mulligan, Kathleen
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Wisconsin’s welfare reform program, W-2, espouses a rigorous "work first" philosophy. The program is based on the idea that any job is better than welfare, and as a result interprets decreased caseloads as success. Numerous dimensions of policy implementation enact this emphasis on moving people off the rolls. In many cases, the result is that families do not get connected to services they need.