In 2000, West Virginia's Department of Health and Human Resources provided funding to the WVU Interdisciplinary Research Task Force on Welfare Reform to design, administer, and interpret a comprehensive statewide survey of current WV WORKS recipients. The Task Force presented its report, "WV WORKS 2000: The Recipients' Perspective" to the Department of Health and Human Resources in December 2000 and published an abridged version of the study as an article in the Summer 2001 issue of the West Virginia Public Affairs Reporter. The article can be downloaded at WV WORKS 2000: The Recipients' Perspective.
In 2003, West Virginia's Department of Health and Human Resources provided funding to the WVU Interdisciplinary Research Task Force on Welfare Reform to design, administer, and interpret a comprehensive statewide survey of former WV WORKS recipients who had exhausted their 60 months of eligibility. The Task Force is scheduled to present its findings to the Department of Health and Human Resources in January 2004 and shortly thereafter to the state legislature.
WVU Interdisciplinary Research Task Force on Welfare Reform
Seated (l to r): Christopher Plein, Eleanor Blakely, Robert Dilger, and Barry Locke
Standing (l to r): David Williams, Melissa Latimer, and Neal Newfield