Past Issues

Spring 2006

• Linking Jobs to the Unemployed & Moving People Out of Poverty
• My Journey to Self-Sufficiency
• Replicating Success:Planting the CW Model in Houston, D.C., Cleveland

Spring 2005

• Social Security Reform: The 7.65% Solution
• Testimony Excerpts from Chairman Alan Greenspan
• Morality and Personal Social Security Accounts
• Social Security Solvency Solution
• Permanently Fix Social Security

Summer 2004

• Texas, TANF's 2004 Lone Star State
• Reduce Unemployment Through Auto Ownership
• European Unemployment: Lessons for the United States
• Social Security Questions and Answers
• Outdated Ideas Have Made Social Security Unfair to Working Couples

Spring 2004

• Food Stamps: Results are More Important than Intentions
• A Faith-based Program that Works
• Re-Reed and Write Again - How Best to Re-employ Unemployed Money
• Mr. Greenspan, What About Personal Accounts for Social Security?

Winter 2004

• Aloha from the 50th State (welfare reform in Hawaii)
• A New Measure for Welfare Reform
• The Unemployment Insurance Program and Lay-offs: Making a Bad Situation Worse
• Putting Social Security on the Road (spreading the word about the urgent need for reform)

Spring 2003

• José Piñera Kicks Off "For Our Grandchildren" - A Social Security Education Project
• Evolution of Personal Retirement Accounts in Chile
• The Myth of the Hard-to-Serve (principals of the "work-first" philosophy)
• Why Piddle Around? (jobs and economic development)
• Is Worker's Compensation a Model for Unemployment Insurance?

Summer 2003

• AIFE Receives 2003 Samaritan Award
• Mother's Little Helpers, Welfare-to-Work Kids are All Right
• Boeing Flies in the Face of Washington Bureaucracy
• Failure as the Preferred Option (welfare reform)
• Is Social Security an Empty Promise?
• Congressional Budget Office Finds that Personal Retirement Accounts are the Best Way to Save Social Security

Winter 2002

• Roma Reform in the Slovak Republic
• Welfare Reform Progress Report for Wyoming (number one in caseload reduction since 1993)
• Hey States! (enabled by PWORA, states implemented most successful reform of welfare in history)
• WorkFirst (welfare reform in the state of Washington)
• The Time is Now for Social Security Choice
• Chile Leads the Way - AGAIN (individual accounts for unemployment insurance)

Special Edition 2002

• Charles D. Hobbs (AIFE remembers a trusted advisor and friend, as well as the pivotal person who quietly brought welfare reform to America)

Spring 2002

• A Conversation with Maurice P. McTigue, Q.S.O. (New Zealand increased the number of people going to work by over 300%, with 40% less money)
• More Money, Fewer Strings Attached: How the States Fare Under Bush's Unemployment Insurance Proposals
• TANF Caseload: The Hidden Story - There is MOE
• No More Secret Lip-Service (democrats mute on Social Security reform)
• Reform in Alaska (welfare reform)

Winter 2001

• America's Mayor Helps Impoverished New Yorkers
• Fear Not Boomers: Gen X Can Save You (Social Security reform)
• The Quicker We Do Nothing (Social Security reform)
• It's Not the Economy, Stupid (welfare reform)
• Extending Unemployment

Summer 2001

• A Model for Welfare Programs (The Flathead Indian Reservation)
• Report Finds Social Security Unfair and Unfunded
• A Conference in Bratislava (welfare reform)
• A Faith-based Program that Works

Spring 2001

• JOBS PLUS - A Success Story
• Social Security: Keeping the Poor Dependent on Government
• Oregon Trailblazers (linking welfare benefits to work)
• Helping Unemployment Insurance Claimants
• Tax Plan Provides Incentives to Climb Wage Ladder

Fall 2000

• Making the Grade: Comparing States' Welfare Reform Efforts
• Social Security Reform is Now Hot Button Ready to be Pushed
• Oregon Unemployment Insurance Participants Favor Innovative Full Employment Program

April 2000

• Less Visible Burdens of Social Security (Impact of Social Security on Black Americans)
• Charitable Choice: A Matter of Faith
• A Big Job in the Big Apple (welfare reform)
• Unemployment Insurance Needs a Turbo

January 2000

• Working Fathers, Fixing Families
• Social Security Turns 65. Is it Time to Retire it?
• Welfare at the Millennium
• Unemployment Insurance: Benefit or Curse

February 1999 - Special Edition: The Workforce Investment Act

• Work First: The Right Approach to Training
• The Workforce Investment Act: Lessons from the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA)

August 1998

• Leading the Way to Full Employment (Oregon's JOBS-Plus program)
• The Success of Full Employment in Oregon and Mississippi

October 1997

• Full Employment Works
• Full Employment - The Only Practical Program
• Oregon Petitions Congress to Opt Out of Social Security

May 1997

• Oregon Has Greatest Caseload Reduction (TANF caseload reduction)
• The Full Employment Program - Focuses on the Person or Family Truly in Need
• Oregon and Mississippi Use Staffing Companies
• How Wage Subsidies Lead to Full Employment

January 1997

• Full Employment

July 1996

• Full Employment (first American Institute for Full Employment newsletter)