Learning from the “Milwaukee challenge”

✍ Scribed by Mark Alan Hughes

• Book ID: 102660773
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 656 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0276-8739
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6688(199623)15:4<562::aid-pam3>3.0.co;2-f

✦ Synopsis

The consequences o f administering welfare-to-work programs through countylevel agencies may be the most important issue omitted from current discussions of welfare reform. An administrative geography o f county welfare agencies fragments metropolitan labor markets, consigning central county residents to job-poor areas and isolating them from job-rich suburban counties. This paper illustrates this effect by mapping employmentlpopulation shifts and administrative boundaries in metropolitan Milwaukee. The paper ends with the suggestion that county agencies be allowed to play variable rather than fixed functional roles in a labor exchange process that must now accommodate a metropolitan scale.