Prisoners of Hope: Welfare to Work in Los Angeles
July 2003, 272 pp.
BY: PATRICK BURNS, MARK DRAYSE, DANIEL FLAMING, AND BRENT HAYDAMACK, ECONOMIC ROUNDTABLE

Chapter Headings:

• Executive Summary (available in Spanish and English)
• Labor Market Engagement By Welfare Parents
• Vulnerable Parents
• Parents Approaching Time Limits
• Recent Welfare-To-Work Service Strategies
• Impacts Of Education And Training
• Revisiting the Research that Validated "Work First"
• Comments By Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation
• Sanctions
• Childcare
• Labor Market Experience Of CalWORKs Parents 1998-2001
• Labor Market Restructuring and the Working Poor in Los Angeles County
• Informal Economy
• Conclusions and Recommendations
• Comments By The LA Department of Public Social Services and Economic Roundtable Responses
• Appendix