Minnesota’s Welfare Reform Brings Dramatic Results for Long-Term Recipients and Their Children

June 12, 2000Minnesota’s Welfare Reform Brings Dramatic Results for Long-Term Recipients and Their Children The final results from a comprehensive evaluation of Minnesota’s welfare reform initiative – the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) – show that the program brought substantial, far-ranging improvements in the lives of single parents who were long-term welfare recipients. The program increased these parents’ employment, reduced their poverty, decreased their levels of domestic abuse, and improved their children’s behavior and school performance. MFIP had fewer effects on families newly applying for welfare. It was also found to be more costly than the . . .