What does Minnesota know?

Research on state welfare-to-work strategies adopted since the early 1990s, such as that in Minnesota, shows that the states that pursued a "mixed strategy" of work and training are the ones with the best records of promoting work and lifting families out of poverty. However, under ambitious new work requirements proposed by the White House as part of its plan to reauthorize the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Act, states such as Minnesota would have to junk this patient, flexible strategy and replace it with something narrower and more mechanistic.