October 9, 1997
Source: Office of Personnel Management
THE DAILY FED
Feds Hire Off Welfare Rolls
The federal government is 20 percent of the way toward meeting President Clinton's goal of hiring 10,000 people off the welfare rolls by the year 2000.
Here's how it breaks down by agency:
Welfare to Work: Federal Government
Commitments and Hires through September 22, 1997
| Agency |
Commitment Thru 2000 |
1997 Hires Reported Thru Sept. 22 |
% of Total Year 2000 Commitment Hired Since 3/8/97 |
| USDA | 375 | 99 | 26% |
|
Commodity Futures Trading Commission |
-- | 1 | -- |
|
Commerce (inc. Census) |
4,180 | 65 | 2% |
| Defense | 1,600 | 339 | 21% |
| Education | 21 | 4 | 19% |
| EEOC | -- | 4 | -- |
| Energy | 55 | 11 | 20% |
| EOP | 6 | 6 | 100% |
| EPA | 120 | 16 | 13% |
| FEMA | 125 | 27 | 22% |
| GSA | 121 | 38 | 31% |
| HHS | 300 | 110 | 37% |
| HUD | 200 | 23 | 12% |
| Interior | 325 | 35 | 11% |
| Justice | 450 | 53 | 12% |
| Labor | 120 | 53 | 44% |
| NASA | 40 | 1 | 3% |
| NCUA | -- | 4 | -- |
| NRC | -- | 1 | -- |
| OPM | 25 | 30 | 120% |
| SBA | 120 | 31 | 26% |
| SEC | 10 | 0 | -- |
| SSA | 600 | 188 | 31% |
| State | 220 | 9 | 4% |
| Transportation | 400 | 84 | 21% |
| Treasury | 405 | 50 | 12% |
| USIA | 20 | 15 | 75% |
| VA | 800 | 604 | 75% |
| TOTAL | 10,638 | 1,901 | 17.9% |
Source: Office of Personnel Management
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