Recent media coverage about New York State’s bail reform and its relationship to an uptick in crime in the five boroughs has been misleading, particularly in using newly released data to conflate bail reform with a program in New York City called supervised release…..

Social Finance is managing the investment program. An independent research firm, MDRC, will evaluate the performance of the training and job placement programs over time.

Among the many casualties of the coronavirus pandemic are the poorest of the global poor. Not only are they the ones who are usually hit hardest by the virus, but they’ve also borne the brunt of virus-induced wreckage in the world’s economies…..

MDRC continues our commitment to postsecondary research in Detroit through three new grants. Two grants, awarded by The Kresge Foundation and the Ford Foundation, will support a fourth year of study follow-up for the Detroit Promise Path study.

If ever there has been a moment to talk about college completion, it’s now, as Congress considers a first-of-its-kind grant fund for retention and completion initiatives. A College Completion Fund would be a landmark federal investment in getting students across the finish line to a college degree…..