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This report combines survey data from the 2012 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) with administrative lists of home-based child care providers from 2018 to analyze factors that shape the attrition of listed home-based providers from administrative lists.

Explore TANF policies for each state as of July 2021, as well as longitudinal tables describing various state policies for selected years between 1996 and 2021.

Provides a graphical overview of selected TANF policy changes states made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Explore a graphical overview of state TANF policies as of July 2021.

Discover a brief from the Understanding the Value of Centralized Services Study that presents findings from qualitative data collection about how three centralized community resource centers fund their centralized services. 

This brief describes how the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic and its related economic and policy changes affected the economic circumstances and emotional well-being of nine families with low incomes from one rural and two urban localities in the United States, drawing on in-depth interviews with families to share their experiences during the first six months of the pandemic.

The Behavioral Interventions Scholars (BIS) grant program supports dissertation research by advanced graduate students who are applying a behavioral science lens to specific research questions relevant to social services programs and policies and other issues facing low-income and vulnerable families in the United States. The third round of BIS grants was awarded in 2019 to three grantees.

The Behavioral Interventions Scholars (BIS) grant program supports dissertation research by advanced graduate students who are applying a behavioral science lens to specific research questions relevant to social services programs and policies and other issues facing low-income and vulnerable families in the United States. The third round of BIS grants was awarded in 2019.

In the fall of 2016, OPRE brought together a diverse group of participants from federal agencies, research firms, foundations, and academia to discuss alternatives to randomized controlled trials and their assumptions, trade-offs, benefits, and challenges.

There is growing emphasis placed on evidence-based interventions, and opportunities to make programmatic decisions based on evidence reflect progress in promoting positive outcomes. However, some populations (e.g., ethnic and cultural minority communities, marginalized groups) may be left behind in efforts to build evidence, if they are more difficult to study. Over time, as evidence builds for the populations...