UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 3, Page 9
September 15, 1994
Prof. Saul Hoffman in World Book

     Early next year, more than a million people will be receiving a
synopsis of Saul Hoffman's extensive knowledge on the U.S. welfare
system and attempts to reform it.
     World Book Encyclopedia commissioned the University professor of
economics to write a special report on reform and the U.S. welfare
system for the next edition of its yearbook.
     Hoffman submitted the article in June, and it will appear in this
year's supplement, which is sold to 1.3 million households each year.
     An editor at World Book Publishing read an article in Science
Magazine that Hoffman and several colleagues had written about the
welfare system and welfare dependency.
     Hoffman has been studying the economics of welfare and poverty
for almost 20 years, since he was a student at the University of
Michigan. Along with his work at the University, Hoffman is a research
associate at the University of Pennsylvania Population Studies Center
and is affiliated with the University of Michigan's National Institute
of Child Health and Human Development.
     In his upcoming encyclopedia article, Hoffman defines the U.S.
version of welfare, summarizes the history of the system, describes
each program under the welfare umbrella and its recipients, explains
what's wrong with welfare and gives an overview of past and present
attempts to reform it.