Feds Hire Off Welfare Rolls

Feds Hire Off Welfare Rolls

October 9, 1997

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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