Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) – Creating an Alternative to Welfare: First-Year Findings on the Implementation, Welfare Impacts, and Costs of the Self-Sufficiency Project
This report provides a record of the rationale, design, and early implementation of the Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) as well as information on the structure and methods of the SSP evaluation and SSP’s first-year costs and welfare impacts.
Project Details
Published: December 1995
Capability: Experimentation
Policy Area: Income Security - Welfare and Employment
Population: Low-income Populations - Low-skilled Workers - Social Assistance Recipients - Women - Communities and Families - EI Recipients
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