American Institute for Full Employment
The American Institute for Full Employent is an anti-welfare 501(c)3 group that since 1994 was been promoting so-called welfare reform programs. The group is primarily the creation of Klamath Falls, Oregon millionaire industrialist Richard L. Wendt, chairman of Jend-Wen, Inc.
More recently the group became involved in supporting the Bush administration's push to privatize Social Security. In 2003 it launch a group called For Our Grandchildren.
According to its website the "Institute is best known for developing the successful Full Employment Program – a welfare, unemployment and food stamp replacement concept that converts benefits to wage subsidies for transitional, training-oriented, predominantly private sector jobs. It helped implement the program as JOBS Plus in Oregon and Work First in Mississippi."[1]
According to the group's 2003 Form 990, Wendt and his wife contributed $2.4 million to AIFE, which composed 75 percent of the group's income for the year. Other large donations came from the New York City-based Gilder Foundation, $350,000; Larry and Pat Wetter of Carefree, Arizona, $100,000; the Dunn Foundation of Stuart, Florida, $50,000; Pfizer Corporation, $25,000; Lynn Campbell of Paradise Valley, Arizona, $20,000; and Bob J. Perry of Houston Texas, $10,000.
Personnel
- Richard L. Wendt, president (and chairmand of Jend-Wen, Inc.)
- Roderick C. Wendt, secretary (and president of Jend-Wen, Inc.)
- Willaim B. Early, vice president
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Contact Information
American Institute for Full Employment
2636 Biehn Street
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
Phone: 800 562 7752, 541 273 6731
Fax: 541 273 6496
http://www.fullemployment.org/
External links
- Don McIntosh, "Klamath Falls millionaire pushes 'JOBS Plus' agenda," Northwest Labor Press, April 16, 1999.
