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The Systems Study captures the perspectives of 15 program operators and their partners on the extent to which systems activities of the HPOG 2.0 programs—collaboration, improved access to and quality of training and services, employer engagement, data sharing, and sustainability—improved how their systems functioned.

This brief highlights how six TANF programs around the country pursued organizational change and sought to promote and sustain a positive organizational culture.

This research explores the prevalence of training patterns that are likely to lead to jobs that “pay well” and how those training patterns vary across several dimensions: available years of HPOG federal program funding, enrollee characteristics, and funding round (HPOG 1.0 vs. HPOG 2.0).

Year Up’s large positive impacts on young adults’ earnings extended over a seven-year follow-up period, and the program’s net benefits to society substantially exceeded its costs.

Explore profiles of existing home-based child care measures and indicators.

Learn about the quality measurement, reliability and validity, affordability and feasibility to use, and other strengths and limitations of existing home-based child care measures and indicators.

Measuring Child Well-Being in Evaluations of Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Programs

In the six years since random assignment, VIDA produced substantial increases in receipt of degrees and longer-term college certificates, but these impacts on college credentials did not lead to detectable impacts on earnings.

I-BEST had a large impact on the receipt of short-term college credentials but had no impact on receipt of credentials requiring a year or more of college study—the confirmatory outcome in the education domain, and no detectable impact on average quarterly earnings after six-years—the confirmatory outcome in the employment domain.

Carreras increased receipt of a college credential requiring at least one year of full-time college but not average quarterly earnings at the six-year follow-up, the two confirmatory outcomes in this report.