Welfare-to-Work
Toward an Employer-Led Approach to Welfare Reform and Workforce Development
March, 2000
Lessons from Four Big Cities as They Implement Welfare Reform
March, 2002
Five-Year Impacts of Pre-Employment Services in the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies
July, 2003
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.
Lessons from Research and Practice
May, 2011
This 12-page practitioner brief offers lessons for policy and practice from MDRC-conducted random assignment studies of five programs that provided earnings supplements to low-income parents to encourage employment and increase the payoff of low-wage work.
How to Increase Involvement in Welfare-to-Work Activities
September, 1999
Factors That Aid or Impede Their Receipt
January, 2001
November, 2010
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.
Patching Together Care for Children When Parents Move from Welfare to Work
April, 2003
Two-Year Implementation, Participation, Cost, and Impact Findings
August, 2000