Workfare implications for the public sector From: St. John's Law Review | Date: July 1, 1999| Author: Hoffman, Nancy E | Copyright St. John's Law Review Association Summer 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

I. INTRODUCTION

The federal Welfare Reform Law of 1996 has presented striking new challenges to New York State's public administration. The program provides a generous amount of freedom to the state's allocation of its welfare resources, but it challenges the entitlement guidelines of the 1938 state constitution so that either legislative action or a constitutional convention might be necessary to effect the program's proper implementation.

The establishment of a welfare workf...