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Opening Doors
Project Overview Opening Doors Project Overview Community colleges, which tend to be accessible and affordable, serve as a critical resource for low-income individuals striving to improve their prospects in the labor market and life. However, a variety of ...
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Employment Retention and Advancement
Project Overview Employment Retention and Advancement Project Overview The federal welfare overhaul of 1996 ushered in myriad policy changes aimed at getting low-income parents off public assistance and into employment. These changes — especially cash wel ...
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Minnesota Family Investment Program
Project Overview Minnesota Family Investment Program Project Overview A long-standing dilemma in welfare policy is that while cash benefits reduce poverty, they can also discourage low-income parents from supporting their families through work. Conversely ...
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Jobs-Plus Community Revitalization Initiative for Public Housing Families
Project Overview Jobs-Plus Community Revitalization Initiative for Public Housing Families Project Overview For many low-income families, taking a low-wage job was once a route to deeper poverty, since doing so usually led to loss of welfare payments, Med ...
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Project GRAD
Project Overview Project GRAD Project Overview Launched in Houston in 1993 by James Ketelsen, retired CEO of Tenneco, and since expanded to 12 additional school districts, Project Graduation Really Achieves Dreams (GRAD) combines a variety of promising re ...
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Ohio's Learning, Earning, and Parenting Program
Project Overview Ohio's Learning, Earning, and Parenting Program Project Overview Early childbearing puts teenagers at risk of myriad negative consequences, including single parenthood, unemployment, and poverty. Faced with the economic and emotional ...
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Work Advancement and Support Center Demonstration
Project Overview Work Advancement and Support Center Demonstration Project Overview The wages and earnings of low-income workers have been stagnant or declining in real terms for approximately 35 years. Nationwide, the labor market-driven growth of the lo ...
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The UK Employment Retention and Advancement Project
Project Overview The UK Employment Retention and Advancement Project Project Overview Until recently, employment policy in the United Kingdom had been focused principally on helping people who had lost their jobs to find work. Although some government-spo ...
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Opportunity NYC Demonstrations
Project Overview Opportunity NYC Demonstrations Project Overview In March 2007, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced his intention to test a set of antipoverty initiatives, called Opportunity NYC, which would use temporary cash payments to p ...
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Performance-Based Scholarship Demonstration
Project Overview Performance-Based Scholarship Demonstration Project Overview For many low-income college students, one of the biggest barriers to attendance is cost. While federal and state financial aid is available to help with tuition, fees, books, an ...
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