Table 25

Benefit-cost analysis of the JOBSTART program

                                                     
  Accounting Perspective
Component Program
Participants 		 
Taxpayers 		 
Society
Increased earnings and fringe benefits $69 $0 $69
Increased tax payments
  Payroll taxes - + 0
  Income and sales taxes - + 0
Reduced use of transfer programs
  AFDC payments $74 -$74 $0
  Food Stamp payments -$34 $34 $0
  General Assistance payments $28 -$28 $0
  Payments from other public
    programs 		- + 0
  AFDC administrative costs 0 + +
  Food Stamp administrative costs 0 + +
Reduced use of community education
and training programs 		0 + +
Reduced criminal activity and income - + +
JOBSTART operating costs $0 -$3863 -$3863
Compensation for program-related
expenses 		$0 -$568 -$568
Additional support services $117 -$117 $0
Change in family's financial needs
owing to program effects on
childbearing 		? ? ?
Value of education not reflected in
earnings 		+ + +
Preference for work over welfare + + +
Forgone leisure time and activities - 0 -
Total $254 -$4540 -$4286
All costs are in 1986 dollars. Components that have not been assigned a dollar value are shown
as a benefit (+), cost (-), or neither a benefit or a cost (0).

Source: Cave, Bos, Doolittle, and Toussaint (1993), Table 7.9.