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    National High School Center Publishes Briefs for Practitioners by MDRC Experts
    The National High School Center has just released a set of briefs, authored by MDRC consultants Michael Bangser and Thomas J. Smith, that examine what is known about educational interventions that help students prepare for postsecondary education and employment.
 
    Needs and Characteristics of Pregnant and Parenting Teens
The Baseline Report for Project Redirection
    1982. Denise F. Polit with Janet R. Kahn, Charles A. Murray, Kevin W. Smith.

 
    New Chance
Final Report on a Comprehensive Program for Young Mothers in Poverty and Their Children
    1997. Janet C. Quint, Johannes M. Bos, Denise F. Polit.

 
    New Chance
Interim Findings on a Comprehensive Program for Disadvantaged Young Mothers and Their Children
    1994. Janet C. Quint, Denise F. Polit, Hans Bos, George Cave.

 
    New Chance
The Cost Analysis of a Comprehensive Program for Disadvantaged Young Mothers and Their Children
    1994. Barbara L. Fink with Mary E. Farrell.

 
    New Chance
Implementing a Comprehensive Program for Disadvantaged Young Mothers and Their Children
    1991. Janet C. Quint, Barbara L. Fink, Sharon L. Rowser.

 
    New Chance
Lessons from the Pilot Phase
    1989. Janet C. Quint, Cynthia A. Guy.

 
    New Hope for Families and Children
Five-Year Results of a Program to Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare
    2003. Aletha C. Huston, Cynthia Miller, Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, Greg J. Duncan, Carolyn A. Eldred, Thomas S. Weisner, Edward Lowe, Vonnie A. McLoyd, Daniella A. Crosby, Marika N. Ripke, Cindy Redcross.

This rigorous long-term evaluation reveals that building a safety net of financial supports for low-income parents who work improved the well-being of their children.
 
    New Hope for People with Low Incomes
Two-Year Results of a Program to Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare
    1999. Johannes M. Bos, Aletha C. Huston, Robert C. Granger, Greg J. Duncan, Thomas W. Brock, Vonnie C. McLoyd with Danielle Crosby, Veronica Fellerath, Christina Gibson, Katherine Magnuson, Rashmita Mistry, Susan M. Poglinco, Jennifer Romich, Ana M. Ventura.

 
    New Hope for the Working Poor
Effects After Eight Years for Families and Children
    2008. Cynthia Miller, Aletha C. Huston, Greg J. Duncan, Vonnie C. McLoyd, and Thomas S. Weisner.

Implemented in 1994 in Milwaukee, New Hope provided full-time, low-wage workers with several benefits for three years: an earnings supplement, low-cost health insurance, and subsidized child care. A random assignment study shows positive effects for both adults and children, some of which persisted five years after the program ended.
 
    New Hope’s Effects on Children’s Future Orientation and Employment Experiences
Working Paper
    2008. Vonnie C. McLoyd, Rachel Kaplan, and Kelly M. Purtell.

Implemented in 1994, New Hope provided full-time workers with several benefits for three years: an earnings supplement, low-cost health insurance, and subsidized child care. This working paper examines the program’s impacts on children’s future orientation and employment experiences eight years after random assignment.
 
    New Hope’s Effects on Social Behavior, Parenting, and Activities at Eight Years
Working Paper
    2008. Aletha C. Huston, Anjali E. Gupta, Alison C. Bentley, Chantelle Dowsett, Angelica Ware, and Sylvia R. Epps.

Implemented in 1994, New Hope provided full-time workers with several benefits for three years: an earnings supplement, low-cost health insurance, and subsidized child care. This working paper examines the effects of New Hope on children’s social behavior, parent-child relationships, and participation in out-of-school activities eight years after random assignment.
 
    New Hope’s Eight-Year Impacts on Employment and Family Income
Working Paper
    2008. Greg Duncan, Cynthia Miller, Amy Classens, Mimi Engel, Heather Hill, and Constance Lindsay.

Implemented in 1994, New Hope provided full-time workers with several benefits for three years: an earnings supplement, low-cost health insurance, and subsidized child care. This working paper examines the program’s impacts on employment and earnings, as well as on family income and poverty, up to eight years beyond the point of random assignment.
 
    New Jersey
Final Report on the Grant Diversion Project
    1988. Stephen Freedman, Jan Bryant, George Cave with Michael Bangser, Daniel Friedlander, Barbara Goldman, David Long.

 
    New Strategies to Promote Stable Employment and Career Progression
An Introduction to the Employment Retention and Advancement Project
    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
2002. Dan Bloom, Jacquelyn Anderson, Melissa Wavelet, Karen N. Gardiner, Michael E. Fishman.

Welfare reform has resulted in millions of low-income parents replacing the receipt of public cash assistance with income from employment. But what strategies will help the new workforce entrants find more stable jobs, advance in the labor market, and achieve long-term self-sufficiency? The Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) evaluation is a comprehensive effort to explore this urgent public policy question.
 



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