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    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.
     
     

All New Hope Project Publications

    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.
 
    Long-Term Effects of New Hope on Children’s Academic Achievement and Achievement Motivation
Working Paper
    2008. Aletha C. Huston, Jessica Thornton Walker, Chantelle J. Dowsett, Amy E. Imes, and Angelica Ware.

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 academic achievement and achievement motivation 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 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 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 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.

 
    An Early Look at Community Service Jobs in the New Hope Demonstration
    1998. Susan M. Poglinco, Julian Brash, Robert C. Granger.

 
    Creating New Hope
Implementation of a Program to Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare
    1997. Thomas Brock, Fred Doolittle, Veronica Fellerath, Michael Wiseman with David Greenberg and Robinson Hollister, Jr.

 
    Who Got New Hope?
    1997. Michael Wiseman.

 
    The New Hope Offer
Participants in the New Hope Demonstration Discuss Work, Family, and Self-Sufficiency
    1996. Dudley Benoit.

 



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