Welfare reform; historical context and current issues / Demetra Smith Nightingale -- Making work work; welfare reform in the 1990s / Nathan Glazer -- Outlook for the U.S. labor market and prospects for low-wage entry jobs / Rebecca M. Blank -- Employment prospects of welfare recipients / Gary Burtless -- Subsidized employment and non-labor market alternatives for welfare recipients / Rebecca A. Maynard -- Stimulating employment and increasing opportunity for the current work force / Laurie J. Bassi -- Out-of-welfare strategies for welfare-bound youth / Hillard Pouncy and Ronald B. Mincy -- Clinton alternative to "welfare as we know it": is it feasible? / Robert H. Haveman.