Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) – When Work Pays Better than Welfare: A Summary of the Self-Sufficiency Project’s Implementation, Focus Group, and Initial 18-Month Impact Reports
This report summarizes the early findings from the Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP), including lessons learned from implementing the project, from focus groups held with participants, and from an examination of the program’s effects on employment, earnings, and income assistance receipt in the first 18 months after random assignment.
Project Details
Published: March 1996
Capability: Experimentation
Policy Area: Income Security - Welfare and Employment
Population: Women - Communities and Families - EI Recipients - Low-income Populations - Low-skilled Workers - Social Assistance Recipients
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