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Getting Welfare Recipients to Work: Transportation and Welfare Reform, Summary of Conference Proceedings

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  • Blumenberg, Evelyn
  • Moga, Steven
  • Ong, Paul M.

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This report is a summary of the proceedings of a conference on transportation and welfare reform held at the University of California, Los Angeles on March 26-27, 1998. The conference was sponsored and hosted by the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies and cosponsored by the University of California Transportation Center, the New England University Transportation Center at MIT, the UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations, and UCLA’s Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies.

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  • Blumenberg, Evelyn & Moga, Steven & Ong, Paul M., 1998. "Getting Welfare Recipients to Work: Transportation and Welfare Reform, Summary of Conference Proceedings," University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers qt23s208dz, University of California Transportation Center.
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