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Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty

Job Subsidy Program – San Francisco, CA

S.F. doubles hiring subsidy to cut welfare rolls, By John Coté, April 12, 2011, San Francisco Chronicle: “San Francisco, facing a looming $306 million budget deficit, is willing to pay private companies to hire people off the city’s welfare rolls. On Monday, the city doubled its subsidy to $5,000 per employee because so few companies were taking advantage of the current local economic stimulus program…”