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Service Delivery and Institutional Linkages
Early Implementation Experiences of Employment Retention and Advancement Programs
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2003. Jacquelyn Anderson, Karin Martinson.
Describing the initial experiences of 15 Employment Retention and Advancement programs in 8 states, this report emphasizes implementation issues and focuses on connections among the agencies and institutions that deliver retention and advancement services to low-income workers and hard-to-employ populations.
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Welfare Reform, Work, and Child Care
The Role of Informal Care in the Lives of Low-Income Women and Children
Policy Brief
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2003. Virginia W. Knox, Andrew S. London, Ellen K. Scott with Susan Blank.
Drawing on ethnographic interviews, this policy brief describes the patchwork child care arrangements made by low-income parents and discusses implications for policies that would promote the dual objectives of child well-being and parental employment.
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The Long-Term Effects of the Minnesota Family Investment Program on Marriage and Divorce Among Two-Parent Families
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2003. Lisa A. Gennetian.
Building on findings that the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) resulted in higher rates of marital stability among two-parent recipient families who participated in this initiative that provided financial incentives to welfare recipients who worked, this report documents MFIP’s long-term effects on marriage and divorce among participants in the program’s sample of nearly 2,500 two-parent families who were married or cohabiting at study entry.
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Welfare Reform in Philadelphia
Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and Neighborhoods
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2003. Charles Michalopoulos, Kathryn Edin, Barbara Fink, Mirella Landriscina, Denise F. Polit, Judy C. Polyne, Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, David Seith, Nandita Verma.
Based on a comprehensive body of evidence, this report from the Project on Devolution and Urban Change examines how changes in Pennsylvania’s welfare reform policies combined with a strong regional economy in the late 1990s to create substantial change in the welfare system in Philadelphia.
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Sample Design for an Evaluation of the Reading First Program
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2003. Howard S. Bloom.
This paper illustrates how to design an experimental sample for measuring the effects of educational programs when whole schools are randomized to a program and control group. It addresses such issues as what number of schools should be randomized, how many students per school are needed, and what is the best mix of program and control schools.
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Housing Assistance and the Effects of Welfare Reform
Evidence from Connecticut and Minnesota
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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. 2003. Nandita Verma, James A. Riccio, with Gilda L. Azurdia.
Using data from two random assignment welfare reform experiments, this report contributes insights to efforts to foster economic self-sufficiency in both the assisted housing and the welfare policy arenas.
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New Hope for Families and Children
Five-Year Results of a Program to Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare
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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.
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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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Changing Courses
Instructional Innovations That Help Low-Income Students Succeed in Community College
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2003. Richard Kazis, Marty Liebowitz.
This paper looks at curricular and program redesign strategies currently used by community colleges to speed nontraditional students’ advancement from lower levels of skill into credential programs and to shorten the time commitment required to earn a credential.
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Pursuing Economic Security for Young Adults
Five-Year Impacts of Pre-Employment Services in the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies
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2003. Stephen Freedman.
This report finds that — over a five-year follow-up period — both mandatory employment-focused and education-focused welfare-to-work programs helped young adults attain higher earnings.
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The Effects of Welfare and Employment Policies on Child Care Use by Low-Income Young Mothers
Working Paper
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2003. Anna Gassman-Pines.
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The Effects of Welfare Policy on Child Care Decisions
Evidence from Ten Experimental Welfare-to-Work Programs
Working Paper
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2003. Philip K. Robins.
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Child Care and Employment
Evidence from Random Assignment Studies of Welfare and Work Programs
Working Paper
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2003. Lisa A. Gennetian and Charles Michalopoulos.
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Community Service Jobs in Wisconsin Works
The Milwaukee County Experience
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2003. Andrea Robles, Fred Doolittle, Susan Gooden.
This report examines the implementation of the community service jobs component of Wisconsin's Temporary Aid for Needy Families program during the program’s first three years of operation.
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Working with Disadvantaged Youth
Thirty-Month Findings from the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Training Replication Sites
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2003. Cynthia Miller, Johannes M. Bos, Kristin E. Porter, Fannie M. Tseng, Fred C. Doolittle, Deana N. Tanguay, Mary P. Vencill.
Efforts to replicate the experience of the Center for Employment Training in San Jose, California — a uniquely successful program that helped at-risk youth develop skills needed to compete in today’s labor market — showed mixed results.
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Exploring the Feasibility and Quality of Matched Neighborhood Research Designs
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2003. David C. Seith, Nandita Verma, Howard S. Bloom, George C. Galster.
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Final Report on the Neighborhood Jobs Initiative
Lessons and Implications for Future Community Employment Initiatives
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2003. Frieda Molina and Craig Howard.
Drawing upon the experiences of the lead community organizations during the initiative’s implementation phase, this third and final NJI report explores the feasibility and effectiveness of NJI’s novel approach to neighborhood revitalization.
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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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Out of Their Hands
Patching Together Care for Children When Parents Move from Welfare to Work
Working Paper
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2003. Ellen Scott, Allison Hurst, and Andrew S. London.
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Instability in Child Care
Ethnographic Evidence from Working Poor Families in the New Hope Intervention
Working Paper
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2003. Edward D. Lowe, Thomas S. Weisner, Sonya Geis.
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"Making A Way Out of No Way"
How Mothers Meet Basic Family Needs While Moving from Welfare to Work
Working Paper
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2003. Susan Clampet-Lundquist, Kathryn Edin, Andrew S. London, Ellen Scott, and Vicki Hunter.
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Staying Single
The Effects of Welfare Reform Policies on Marriage and Cohabitation
Working Paper
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2003. Lisa A. Gennetian and Virginia Knox.
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"As Long As It Takes"
Responding to the Challenges of Adult Student Persistence in Library Literacy Programs
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2003. John Comings, Sondra Cuban, Johannes M. Bos, Kristin E. Porter, with Fred C. Doolittle.
Based on a study of nine adult literacy programs in public libraries, this report examines student characteristics, participation patterns, and new strategies to raise student persistence.
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Jobs-Plus Site-by-Site
Key Features of Mature Employment Programs in Seven Public Housing Communities
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2003. Linda Yuriko Kato with Stan L. Bowie, Alissa Gardenhire, Linda Kaljee, Edward B. Liebow, Jennifer Miller, Gabrielle O'Malley, Elinor Robinson.
Aiming to significantly increase employment and economic self-sufficiency among public housing residents since its inception in 1997, the Jobs-Plus Community Revitalization Initiative for Public Housing Families created and operated on-site job centers at each of seven public housing developments in six cities across the nation.
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Staying or Leaving
Lessons from Jobs-Plus About the Mobility of Public Housing Residents and Implications for Place-Based Initiatives
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2003. Nandita Verma.
This paper begins to fill a void in the understanding of residential mobility in low-income communities by examining intended and actual out-migration patterns of a cohort of residents of five public housing developments.
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Intensive Qualitative Research
Challenges, Best Uses, and Opportunities
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2003. Alissa Gardenhire and Laura Nelson.
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Improving the Economic and Life Outcomes of At-Risk Youth
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2003. Robert Ivry, Fred Doolittle.
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Supporting CalWORKs Students at California Community Colleges
An Exploratory Focus Group Study
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2003. Laura Nelson, Rogéair Purnell.
The Opening Doors initiative is designed to help low-wage workers, at-risk youth, and recipients of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) earn college credentials as the pathway to better jobs and higher earnings. Concentrating on a program implemented in California, this report supplements efforts from an earlier Opening Doors focus group study to gain insights from low-income students on the factors that affect their ability to enroll in school and earn a college credential while balancing work and parenting responsibilities.
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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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Comparing Outcomes for Los Angeles County’s HUD-Assisted and Unassisted CalWORKs Leavers
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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
2003. Nandita Verma, Richard Hendra.
This report studies the post-welfare experiences of three groups — two that received federal housing assistance when they left the welfare rolls and an unassisted group that did not — to see how they differ with respect to their labor market outcomes, material well-being, and propensity to return to the welfare rolls or rely on other forms of public assistance.
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"Help, I'm Getting Buried in Field Notes!"
A Manual for Qualitative Data Management and Analysis
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2003. Rebecca Widom with Herbert Collado.
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