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Career Pathways as a Framework for Program Design and Evaluation: A Working Paper from The Innovative Strategies for Increasing Self-Sufficiency (ISIS) Project
May 15, 2012Career pathways is gaining steady acceptance as an integrative framework for promising approaches to…
Providing Earnings Supplements to Encourage and Sustain Employment: Lessons from Research and Practice
May 15, 2012Three decades of mostly stagnant wages have made it difficult for many low-income parents to support their…
Increasing Employment Stability and Earnings for Low-Wage Workers: Lessons from the Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Project
April 15, 2012Many recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and other low-income individuals find or keep…
Facilitating Postsecondary Education and Training for TANF Recipients
March 15, 2012Increasing education among low-income parents is a vital component of policies to improve families’ economic status…
How Has the TANF Caseload Changed over Time?
March 15, 2012Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) caseloads have plummeted since the program was enacted in 1996…
Improving Employment and Earnings for TANF Recipients
March 15, 2012Over the past two decades, federal and state policymakers have dramatically reshaped the nation’s system of cash…
TANF Work Requirements and State Strategies to Fulfill Them
March 15, 2012A central component of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program is its emphasis on work…
What Strategies Work for the Hard-to-Employ? Final Results of the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project and Selected Sites from the Employment Retention and Advancement Project
March 15, 2012In the context of a public safety net focused on limiting dependency and encouraging participation in the labor…
Enhanced Early Head Start with Employment Services: 42-Month Impacts from the Kansas and Missouri Sites of the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project
February 15, 2012As part of the multisite Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project, MDRC, together with…
Investigating Depression Severity in the Working toward Wellness Study
February 15, 2012This paper describes several additional analyses and results that go beyond the basic impact findings from the…