The Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse

Discover what rigorous research tells us about 12 interventions that used education as an approach to providing services to clients and the interventions’ impacts on earnings, employment, the receipt of public benefits, and education and training.

This Evidence Snapshot summarizes what rigorous research tells us about 27 interventions that used career pathways as an approach to providing services to clients and the interventions’ impacts on earnings, employment, the receipt of public benefits, and education and training.

This Evidence Snapshot describes the effectiveness of occupational and sectoral training programs for people with low incomes, summarizing what we know about these programs and their impacts on employment, earnings, public benefits receipt, and education and training.

This Evidence Snapshot summarizes what rigorous research tells us about 21 interventions that used case management as their primary service and the interventions' impacts on earnings, employment, the receipt of public benefits, and education and training.

This brief describes the effectiveness of programs that were identified by the Pathways Clearinghouse as using work experience and work-based learning as their primary service.

Learn about the effectiveness of programs identified by the Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse as using employment retention services as their primary service.

This brief provides guidance for employment service providers and other human services agency staff who wish to implement evidence-based programs but find little information about the core components of those programs.

Evidence on the services and combinations of services that improve labor market outcomes.

This evidence snapshot describes the effectiveness of programs that were identified by the Pathways Clearinghouse as using subsidized employment or transitional jobs as their primary service.

This evidence snapshot describes the effectiveness of programs that use financial incentives catalogued by the Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse.

This evidence snapshot brief summarizes what we know about programs that use employment coaching catalogued in the Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse and their impacts on employment, earnings, and related outcomes for people with low incomes.

Overview of findings from a report from the Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse about the interventions and types of services with the strongest evidence of improving employment outcomes during economic recessions and recoveries.

Explore a new OPRE's Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse brief on lessons learned delivering remote services to job seekers with low incomes during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Discover case studies highlighting innovative interventions that aim to improve employment outcomes for TANF participants and others with low incomes but that have not been rigorously evaluated.

This report summarizes the findings of the Pathways Clearinghouse and provides background information to help users of the website understand how the Pathways Clearinghouse obtained those findings.

This report analyzes the information catalogued by the Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse and identifies interventions and services that can help people with low incomes succeed in the labor market.

This guide introduces researchers to the Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse and the standards and procedures it uses for screening, reviewing, and rating interventions that aim to improve labor market outcomes for people with low incomes.

A report from the Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse about the interventions and types of services with the strongest evidence of improving employment outcomes during economic recessions and recoveries.

During the past several decades, evaluations have produced a great deal of research on interventions designed to improve the employment outcomes of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients, beneficiaries of other public benefit programs, and other people with low incomes. But the sheer volume of research combined with the diversity of the findings can make it challenging to find applicable research, identify the most reliable and relevant studies, and use information...