Funding: Rockefeller Foundation
Summary: A key element of British welfare reforms is a program of linking social assistance for working-age persons with efforts to work by collocating welfare and employment services in a single agency, called “Jobcentre Plus.” The Jobcentre Plus idea originated with visits by British policymakers to similar facilities in Wisconsin, and the program is similar in some respects to the “One-Stop” employment services centers fostered in the United States by the Workforce Investment Act. This project explores these transatlantic connections.