Welfare Can Discourage Work

· Apr. 5, 2010, 4:00 pm

Research by the Women's Foundation of Colorado shows the welfare system can discourage people from working their way out of poverty.Ryan Warner talks with President and CEO Gretchen Gagel McComb and with Susan, who experienced this "cliff effect" firsthand.

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