Employment and Economic Mobility

We examine career and technical education, workforce development, savings and financial well-being initiatives, and employment and coaching services for people ranging from high school students to adults.

Job candidate shaking hands with interviewer

Podcast Episode

Testing a Successful Employment Model in a New Context

Issue Focus

Ensuring Equity in Future Subsidized Employment Programs

The Critical Role of Nonprofits, Public Agencies, and Social Enterprises

Brief

BEES Site Profile: Breaking Barriers, San Diego, CA

Brief

Voices from the Field

How Community Colleges Are Advancing Equity in Career and Technical Education

Brief

Using Principles of Procedural Justice to Engage Disconnected Parents

Project

Reconnecting Youth

Report

The EASE Handbook for Community Colleges

Encouraging Additional Summer Enrollment

Report

A More Generous Earned Income Tax Credit for Singles

Interim Findings from the Paycheck Plus Demonstration in Atlanta

Issue Focus

MDRC’s Research Agenda for Families & Children

Home Visiting and Coordinated and Integrated Early Childhood Systems

Report

Long-Term Effects of a Sectoral Advancement Strategy

Costs, Benefits, and Impacts from the WorkAdvance Demonstration

five participants of Subsidized Employment Program

Report

Can Subsidized Employment Programs Help Disadvantaged Job Seekers?

A Synthesis of Findings from Evaluations of 13 Programs

Working Paper

Cost Analysis of the Minnesota Subsidized and Transitional Employment Demonstration

Working Paper

Cost Analysis of the STEP Forward Program

Video

Bridging Access to Benefits and Care for Chronic Drug Users

Report

HUD’s Jobs Plus Pilot Program for Public Housing Residents

Ongoing Implementation Experiences

Employment and Economic Mobility

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