Anita Hattiangadi

Anita Hattiangadi claims in the following viewpoint that the "training first" approach to helping unemployed U.S. workers find jobs is ineffective. Instead of placing participants in jobs, "training first" often ends up moving hard-to-serve individuals with limited skills from training program to training program, in Hattiangadi's opinion. Hattiangadi is an economist with the Employment Policy Foundation, a research and educational foundation that provides policymakers and the public with economic analysis and commentary on U.S. employment policies.

As you read, consider the following questions:
1. By what percentage have welfare rolls dropped since the signing of the welfare reform law, according to the author"
2. Aside from government, to whom does Hattiangadi give credit for the success of welfare-to-work initiatives"
3. What government job training program, replaced by the Workforce Investment Act, failed to improve...