SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- When Shila Katz sits down with President Elect Obama’s transition team, she has a message to get across:
“Higher education can really be the key to higher wages that will support a family.”
Katz, an assistant professor of sociology at Sonoma State University, has done research about education as a way to get from welfare to work.
KCBS’ Margie Shafer reports
“Mothers on welfare who are pursuing higher education here in the Bay Area, [who] earn associate degrees and bachelors degrees, find jobs at wages that they never need welfare again.”
Many of the women who participated in her research are also domestic violence survivors.
“We need to provide welfare services that are actually supportive and will help people get into jobs that will earn wages so that they can support their families and higher education is the key to that.”
Katz worked on the Obama campaign and says that now is the time to enact policies that show what his values are.
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