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Maine
Final Report on the Training Opportunities in the Private Sector Program
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1988. Patricia Auspos, George Cave, David Long with Karla Hanson, Emma Caspar, Daniel Friedlander, Barbara Goldman.
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Maine
Interim Findings from a Grant Diversion Program
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1985. Patricia Auspos with Joseph Ball, Barbara Goldman, Judith Gueron.
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Making Child Care Choices
How Welfare and Work Policies Influence Parents' Decisions
Policy Brief
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2002. Lisa A. Gennetian, Aletha C. Huston, Danielle A. Crosby, Young Eun Chang, Edward D. Lowe, Thomas S. Weisner.
Congressional deliberations on the future of welfare reform have reopened a debate about whether current child care assistance programs adequately support employment among low-income working parents while also fostering their children's development. Issues at the forefront of this debate are explored in this timely new policy brief.
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Making Progress Toward Graduation
Evidence from the Talent Development High School Model
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2005. James J. Kemple, Corinne M. Herlihy, and Thomas J. Smith.
Talent Development, a high school reform initiative, produced substantial positive effects on attendance, academic course credits earned, tenth-grade promotion, and algebra pass rates for students in very low-performing schools in Philadelphia.
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Making Random Assignment Happen
Evidence from the UK Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Demonstration
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UK Department for Work and Pensions.
2006. Robert Walker, Lesley Hoggart, and Gayle Hamilton, with Susan Blank.
The largest ever random assignment test of a social policy in Britain is being applied in a demonstration of the Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) program. This report, written by MDRC and British colleagues as part of a consortium of social policy research firms and produced for the UK Department for Work and Pensions, examines how well random assignment worked.
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Making Welfare Work and Work Pay
Implementation and 18-Month Impacts of the Minnesota Family Investment Program
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1997. Cynthia Miller, Virginia Knox, Patricia Auspos, Jo Anna Hunter-Manns, Alan Orenstein.
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Making Work Pay
Final Report on the Self-Sufficiency Project for Long-Term Welfare Recipients
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Social Research and Demonstration Corporation.
2002. Charles Michalopoulos, Doug Tattrie, Cynthia Miller, Philip K. Robins, Pamela Morris, David Gyarmati, Cindy Redcross, Kelly Foley, Reuben Ford.
Recognizing that welfare recipients who find jobs may remain poor, the "make work pay" approach rewards those who work by boosting their income. This strategy was the centerpiece of the Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP), a large-scale demonstration program in Canada that offered monthly earnings supplements to single parents who left welfare for full-time work.
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Making Work Pay
How to Design and Implement Financial Work Supports to Improve Family and Child Well-Being and Reduce Poverty
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2003. Debbie Greenberger and Robert Anselmi.
This latest MDRC how-to guide identifies program features and practices that can help states better target financial work incentives and maximize their effectiveness.
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Making Work Pay Better Than Welfare
An Early Look at the Self-Sufficiency Project
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Social Research Demonstration Corporation.
1994. Susanna Lui-Gurr, Sheila Currie Vernon, Tod Mijanovich.
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Making Work Pay for Public Housing Residents
Financial-Incentive Designs at Six Jobs-Plus Demonstration Sites
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2002. Cynthia Miller, James A. Riccio.
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Making Work Pay for Public Housing Residents
Learning from the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
Policy Brief
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2002. James A. Riccio, Steven Bliss.
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Managing the Transition to High School in a Comprehensive Urban High School
Policy Brief
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National High School Center.
2007. Thomas J. Smith.
This “snapshot,” published by the National High School Center, explains how Thomas A. Edison High School in Philadelphia implemented a Ninth-Grade Success Academy.
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Married and Poor
Basic Characteristics of Economically Disadvantaged Couples in the U.S.
Working Paper
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2004. David J. Fein.
Using recent surveys and published reports, this working paper assembles a portrait of the attitudes and behaviors of disadvantaged married couples. It gathers and assesses descriptive statistics on the formation and stability, characteristics, and quality of marriages in the low-income population in the U.S. We welcome discussion and comments on this working paper.
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Maryland
Supplemental Report on the Baltimore Options Program
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1987. Daniel Friedlander.
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Maryland
Final Report on the Employment Initiatives Evaluation
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1985. Daniel Friedlander, Gregory Hoerz, David Long, Janet Quint with Barbara Goldman, Judith Gueron.
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Maryland
Interim Findings from the Maryland Employment Initiatives Programs
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1984. Janet Quint with Joseph Ball, Barbara Goldman, Judith Gueron, Gayle Hamilton.
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Matching Applicants with Services
Initial Assessments in the Milwaukee County W-2 Program
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2001. Susan Gooden, Fred Doolittle, Ben Glispie.
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Matching Opportunities to Obligations
Lessons for Child Support Reform from the Parents' Fair Share Pilot Phase
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1994. Dan Bloom, Kay Sherwood.
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MDRC's Evaluation of Project GRAD
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Project Graduation Really Achieves Dreams (GRAD) is an ambitious education reform initiative that targets high schools and the elementary and middle schools that feed into them. Findings from MDRC’s evaluation of Project GRAD in several urban school districts can be found in two reports — one focused on elementary schools and the other on high schools.
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Measuring the Impacts of Whole-School Reforms
Methodological Lessons from an Evaluation of Accelerated Schools
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2001. Howard S. Bloom.
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Meeting Five Critical Challenges of High School Reform
Lessons from Research on Three Reform Models
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2006. Janet Quint.
Recent MDRC evaluations of three high school reform models — Career Academies, First Things First, and Talent Development — offer hope that comprehensive programs can improve low-performing high schools. This research synthesis for policymakers and practitioners offers practical lessons for creating personalized learning environments, helping struggling freshmen, improving instruction, preparing students for the world beyond high school, and stimulating change in overstressed high schools.
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MFIP
An Early Report on Minnesota's Approach to Welfare Reform
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1995. Virginia Knox, Amy Brown, Winston Lin.
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Mobilizing Public Housing Communities for Work
Origins and Early Accomplishments of the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
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1999. James A. Riccio.
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Mobilizing Resident Networks in Public Housing
Implementing the Community Support for Work Component of Jobs-Plus
Working Paper
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2004. Linda Yuriko Kato.
The “community support for work” component of Jobs-Plus relies on outreach workers from public housing developments to help extend Jobs-Plus’s reach in public housing communities.
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Modeling the Performance of Welfare-to-Work Programs
The Effects of Program Management and Services, Economic Environment, and Client Characteristics
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2001. Howard S. Bloom, Carolyn J. Hill, James Riccio.
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Money Matters
How Financial Aid Affects Nontraditional Students in Community Colleges
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2003. Victoria Choitz, Rebecca Widom.
Examining federal, state, and institutional programs, the paper presents a framework for understanding challenges to securing comprehensive financial assistance for low-income working students.
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Monitoring Outcomes for Cuyahoga County’s Welfare Leavers
How Are They Faring?
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2001. Nandita Verma, Claudia Coulton with Richard Hendra, Engel Polousky.
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Monitoring Outcomes for Los Angeles County’s Pre- and Post-CalWORKs Leavers
How Are They Faring?
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
2003. Nandita Verma, Richard Hendra.
Responding to the growing need to understand whether people who have left the welfare rolls since the passage of the 1996 welfare reform law are able to find and keep jobs and earn enough to lift their families out of poverty, this study compares two groups of single-parent welfare recipients — one that left the welfare rolls in 1996, and a similar group who exited welfare in 1998 —investigating their background characteristics, their employment and earnings experiences, and their material well-being.
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Monthly Participation Rates in Three Sites and Factors Affecting Participation Levels in Welfare-to-Work Programs
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
1995. Gayle Hamilton.
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Moving People from Welfare to Work
Lessons from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
2002. Gayle Hamilton.
This report distills lessons from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies (NEWWS) with a focus on the effectiveness of employment-focused versus education-focused programs in helping people move from welfare to work.
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Multiple Choices After School
Findings from the Extended-Service Schools Initiative
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Public/Private Ventures.
2002. Jean Baldwin Grossman, Marilyn L. Price, Veronica Fellerath, Linda Z. Jucovy, Lauren J. Kotloff, Rebecca Raley, Karen E. Walker.
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My Children Come First
Welfare-Reliant Women's Post-TANF Views of Work-Family Trade-offs and Marriage
Working Paper
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2001. Ellen K. Scott, Kathryn Edin, Andrew S. London, and Joan Maya Mazelis.
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