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GAO-01-996R 1 (2001-08-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptantd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SGAO Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 August 17, 2001 The Honorable Paul S. Sarbanes Chairman The Honorable Phil Gramm Ranking Minority Member Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs United States Senate The Honorable Don Young Chairman The Honorable James L. Oberstar Ranking Democratic Member Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure House of Representatives Subject: Welfare Reform: GAO's Recent and Ongoing Work on DOT's Access to Jobs Program Without adequate transportation, welfare recipients face significant barriers in moving from welfare to work. Three-fourths of welfare recipients live in central cities or rural areas, while two-thirds of new jobs are located in the suburbs. For many of these new jobs, access to public transportation facilities, such as buses or subways, is limited or nonexistent. Transportation to these jobs is primarily by car, yet many welfare recipients do not have cars. To address this mismatch and as part of the welfare reform movement, the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) authorized up to $750 million for fiscal years 1999 through 2003 to implement the Job Access and Reverse Commute (Job Access) program. On June 8, 2001, we briefed staff of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on (1) our prior work, (2) our preliminary observations on the Department of Transportation's (DOT) implementation of the program in fiscal year 2001, and (3) our current plans for reporting on the program. We agreed to send you this letter describing the information we provided during the briefing. GAO 01-996R Access to Jobs

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