A college education can be a critical step towards attaining economic mobility, in part because it can translate to higher earnings. But there are differences in the benefits that accrue to Black, Latinx and White graduates. Various factors drive racial wage and income gaps, including occupational segregation, biases in who gets called back for job interviews,...
Kentucky
Report
The Success for All Model of School Reform
July, 2014
Success for All, a whole-school reading reform, received a federal Investing in Innovation (i3) scale-up grant in 2010 to expand to additional elementary schools. This report examines the program’s implementation and the impacts in 2012-2013, the second year of operation, on early reading skills.
Report
Early Findings from the Investing in Innovation (i3) Scale-Up
October, 2013
Success for All, a whole-school reading reform, received a federal Investing in Innovation (i3) scale-up grant in 2010 to expand to additional elementary schools. This report examines the program’s implementation and its impact in 2011-2012, the first year of operation, on kindergartners’ early reading.
Brief
The Role of Informal Care in the Lives of Low-Income Women and Children
October, 2003
Drawing on ethnographic interviews, this policy brief describes the patchwork child care arrangements made by low-income parents and discusses implications for policies that would promote the dual objectives of child well-being and parental employment.
Brief
Lessons for TANF Reauthorization
March, 2002
Working Paper
Evidence from Ten Experimental Welfare-to-Work Programs
June, 2003
Working Paper
The Effects of Welfare Reform Policies on Marriage and Cohabitation
April, 2003
Working Paper
Evidence from Three States
March, 2005
In a study of over 3,500 women in welfare-to-work programs in three states, child care instability did not appear to be a major cause of employment instability.