ADVISORY/Welfare Program in Minnesota Proves Successful.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 2000 TOPIC: A new welfare program in which recipients are given financial incentive to work allegedly is found to be more successful than the traditional form of welfare in Minnesota, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. The Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. . The Minnesota Family Investment Program divided 14,000 welfare recipients into two categories. The first group would receive the reformed welfare. The second group would receive the traditional version, which includes the receipt of a monthly check. Allegedly, those who participated in the reformed welfare held more jobs, had more stable relationships and had children who did better in school. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Dr. David Mastran, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of MAXIMUS, Inc., has 30 years of experience reforming welfare. He founded and built MAXIMUS into the leading human services company in the world with 1,700 employees and $150 million in annual revenue. 800/629-4687 GEDDCOMM@ad.com Professor Esfandiar (Essie) Maasoumi, of Southern Methodist University Southern Methodist University, at Dallas, Tex.; United Methodist; coeducational; chartered 1911. The school's facilities include laboratories for electron microscopy and stable isotopes, a museum of paleontology, and a graduate research center. , Department of Economics, can provide expertise in areas such as welfare economics and forecasting and policy analysis. 214/768-4298 214/768-2000 (University PR Phone) Professor Toby Parcel, of Ohio State University Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878. There are also campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. , is an expert in sociology, worker attitudes and welfare. 614/292-8448 614/292-OHIO (University PR Phone) Professor Richard K. Perrin, of the University of Nebraska, Department of Agricultural Economics Agricultural economics originally applied the principles of economics to the production of crops and livestock - a discipline known as agronomics. Agronomics was a branch of economics that specifically dealt with land usage. , has extensive knowledge regarding applied welfare economics and public policy. 402/472-9818 402/472-7211 (University PR Phone) ExpertSource cannot guarantee the immediate availability of these experts or their familiarity with this specific issue. ExpertSource, a collaboration Working together on a project. See collaborative software. of Business Wire and The Round Table Group, provides academic and industry experts to the media at no charge. Journalists are encouraged to submit queries to ExpertSource when seeking experts on specific subjects. An online registration form is available at http://www.businesswire.com/expertsource. Business Wire's Media Resource Center provides working journalists many free media services. Please visit the BW Media Resource Center at (www.businesswire.com/media) for more information. |
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