The Los Angeles Jobs-First GAIN Evaluation: Final Report on a Work First Program in a Major Urban Center

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List of Tables and Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Executive Summary

1. Introduction
1. Summary of Los Angeles County’s Welfare Reform Efforts
2. Key Features of Jobs-First GAIN
3. New Program Features of CalWORKS
4. An Overview of the Evaluation
5. The Research Sample and Program Environment
6. The Program Environment
7. Research Questions for This Report
8. Data Sources for This Report
9. The Contents of This Report
2. Participation in Employment-Related Activities After Random Assignment
1. Key Findings
2. Framework for Interpreting Participation Findings
3. Results for AFDC-FGs
4. Results for AFDC-Us
3. Costs of Jobs-First GAIN
1. Key Findings
2. Major Components of the Cost Analysis
3. Jobs-First GAIN-Related Cost per AFDC-FG Experimental Group Member
4. Non-Jobs-First GAIN Cost per AFDC-FG Experimental Group Member
5. Gross Cost per AFDC-FG Experimental Group Member
6. Gross Cost per AFDC-FG Control Group Member
7. Net Cost per AFDC-FG Experimental Group Member
8. Summary of Cost Estimates for AFDC-Us
4. Impacts for AFDC-FGs
1. Key Findings
2. Background Information for Interpreting Results
3. Impacts on Employment and Earnings
4. Impacts on Public Assistance
5. Comparisons with Previously Evaluated Programs
6. Subgroup Impacts
5. Impacts on Self-Sufficiency, Income, and Material Well-Being for AFDC-FGs
1. Key Findings
2. Analysis Issues
3. Impacts on Self-Sufficiency
4. Impacts on Income
5. Impacts on Health Coverage, SSI, and Noncash Benefits
6. Impacts on Other Indicators of Well-Being
6. Impacts on Child Care, Home Environment, and Child Outcomes for Children of AFDC-FGs
1. Key Findings
2. Child Care
3. Household Composition, Fertility, and Home Environment
4. Jobs-First GAINS’s Impacts on Child Outcomes
5. Conclusions
7. Impacts for AFDC-Us
1. Key Findings
2. Background Information for Interpreting Results
3. Impacts on Employment and Earnings
4. Impacts on Public Assistance
5. Impacts on Employment and Welfare Status After Two Years
6. Impacts on Combined Income from Earnings, AFDC/TANF, and Food Stamps
7. Subgroup Impacts
8. Benefit-Cost Analysis
1. Key Findings
2. Analytical Approach
3. Benefits and Costs for AFDC-FGs
4. Comparing Benefits and Costs for AFDC-FGs
5. Summary of Benefits and Costs for AFDC-Us

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