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Taking the First Steps: Helping Welfare Recipients Who Get Jobs Keep Them

November 15, 1996
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For welfare recipients, the road to self-sufficiency involves getting and keeping a job…

Rural Welfare-to-Work Strategies Research Synthesis

June 10, 1999
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The enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act in 1996 signaled a dramatic shift in the…

Paths to Work in Welfare Rural Places: Key Findings and Lessons from the Impact Evaluation of the Future Steps Rural Welfare-to-Work Program

March 22, 2006
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The Rural Welfare-to-Work (WtW) Strategies Demonstration Evaluation is using rigorous experimental designs to…

Promoting Medicaid and Food Stamp Participation: Establishing Eligibility Procedures That Support Participation and Meet Families’ Needs

June 4, 2002
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This study, conducted by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. and its subcontractors, American Management Systems,…

Welfare Reform and Children: A Synthesis of Impacts in Five States: The Project on State-Level Child Outcomes

March 15, 2004
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The Project on State-Level Child Outcomes is a collaboration among researchers, federal agencies, foundations,…

Jobs First: Final Report on Connecticut’s Welfare Reform Initiative

February 15, 2002
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Since its launch in 1996, Connecticut’s Jobs First program has attracted national attention because it includes...

Can Low-Income Single Parents Move Up in the Labor Market? Findings from the Employment Retention and Advancement Project

January 15, 2011
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A large fraction of the U.S. workforce earns wages that cannot lift a family above the poverty line, and…

Increasing Employment Stability and Earnings for Low-Wage Workers: Lessons from the Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Project

April 15, 2012
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Many recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and other low-income individuals find or keep…

Household Search for and Perceptions of Early Care and Education: Initial Findings from the National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE)

October 28, 2014
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This brief uses new, nationally representative data from The National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) —funded by the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services—to describe critical elements in the decision-making process of parents and other caregivers regarding the non-parental care of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. 

Respondents (usually parents) in...

The Economic Well-Being of LGB Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care

January 14, 2013
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This brief describes the characteristics and economic well-being of young people aging out of foster care who...