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    What Strategies Work for the Hard-to-Employ?
Final Results of the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project and Selected Sites from the Employment Retention and Advancement Project
    2012. David Butler, Julianna Alson, Dan Bloom, Victoria Deitch, Aaron Hill, JoAnn Hsueh, Erin Jacobs, Sue Kim, Reanin McRoberts, Cindy Redcross.

This report describes results and draws lessons for policy and practice from rigorous evaluations of eight program models seeking to increase workforce participation by hard-to-employ populations, including long-term welfare recipients, ex-prisoners, Medicaid recipients with depression, and substance abusers.
 
    Can Low-Income Single Parents Move Up in the Labor Market?
Findings from the Employment Retention and Advancement Project
Policy Brief
    2011. Cynthia Miller, Victoria Deitch, and Aaron Hill.

This 12-page practitioner brief examines the work, education, and training patterns of single parents in the national Employment Retention and Advancement Project, which evaluated strategies to promote employment stability among low-income workers. The findings support other research in underscoring the importance of changing jobs and of access to “good” jobs as strategies to help low-wage workers advance.
 
    Paths to Advancement for Single Parents
    2010. Cynthia Miller, Victoria Deitch, and Aaron Hill.

This report from the national Employment Retention and Advancement Project examines the 27,000 single parents who participated in the studied programs to understand the characteristics of those who successfully advanced in the labor market.
 
 



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