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Jobs-Plus — a model proven to help public housing residents find work — is about to be replicated across the country. But to expect similar results as have been achieved in the past, practitioners need to learn from others' experiences with the program.
Early Lessons from Family Rewards 2.0
This project builds on NYC's earlier experiment with a conditional cash transfer program to reduce poverty and improve education, health, and employment outcomes. It tests a revised model in the Bronx and Memphis, adding family guidance to modified incentives paid more frequently. Early implementation findings suggest deeper family engagement.
Performance-Based Scholarships, Student Services, and Developmental Math at Hillsborough Community College
This program provides an incentive for developmental math students to take their math courses early and consecutively, get help in an on-campus Math Lab, and strive for passing grades or better, in exchange for a modest performance-based scholarship. Compared with standard services, the program's effects are modest but positive.
This two-page issue focus uses infographics to explain a groundbreaking demonstration project that tests the impact of a new work-based earnings supplement, similar to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), on economic and social outcomes for single adults.
A New Antipoverty Strategy for Single Adults
This 12-page brief describes a pathbreaking demonstration project testing an enhanced Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income single adults without dependent children in New York City. Paycheck Plus aims to improve participants' economic well-being while promoting employment and other positive outcomes.
Educational Challenges and MDRC's Research
MDRC hosted a recent colloquium to celebrate our 40th anniversary and the contributions of former Board Chair Robert Solow. This issue focus summarizes a panel presentation, featuring Frank Levy, Richard J. Murnane, Cecilia E. Rouse, and Ronald F. Ferguson, about current challenges in education and how MDRC's research can help address them.
Labor Market Challenges for Low-Income Adults
MDRC hosted a recent colloquium to celebrate our 40th anniversary and the contributions of former Board Chair Robert Solow. This issue focus summarizes a panel presentation, featuring David Autor, Mary Jo Bane, David Card, and Lawrence Katz, on the current economic climate and how MDRC's research can address today's problems.
Implementation and Interim Impact Findings from the SaveUSA Evaluation
This report describes the early effects of a program helping low- and moderate-income families build up unrestricted-use savings via tax refunds. Individuals who save a pledged amount for a year earn a 50-percent match payment. After 18 months, SaveUSA had increased the percentage of individuals with savings and boosted average savings amounts.
Seven Years Later
This paper presents the long-term effects of a learning communities program. The program's positive effect on credit accumulation was maintained for seven years, and there is some evidence that graduation rates increased. Economic outcomes are examined, and sobering reflections on detecting effects on economic outcomes in higher education interventions are presented.
This paper examines the quality of evidence regarding the effectiveness of efforts to promote access to mainstream credit, banking, and financial services for low-income people and offers recommendations for strengthening the evidence base of such programs.
Student Characteristics and Patterns of (Un)Affordability
This paper reviews the literature on financial aid and college achievement, examines data from MDRC's Performance-Based Scholarship Demonstration to identify relationships between students' financial aid and their persistence and academic achievement, and concludes with recommendations for how these collective findings should affect financial aid policy.
A Technical Assistance Guide for Developing and Implementing Performance-Based Scholarships
Drawing on the findings and experiences of two research demonstrations that tested the effectiveness of performance-based scholarships, this guide provides helpful information for colleges and scholarship-granting organizations on this type of aid, which can reduce the financial burden on low-income students while offering incentives for good academic progress.
Early Findings from the Performance-Based Scholarship Demonstration in Arizona
College graduation rates for Latino students, especially Latino male students, are lower than the national average. This report presents findings from a study of performance-based scholarships paired with a robust set of student services designed to help low-income Latino men succeed.
The Continuing Story of the Opportunity NYC−Family Rewards Demonstration
Family Rewards, a three-year demonstration, provided cash payments to low-income families in New York City for achieving specific health, education, and employment goals. New results show that the program substantially reduced poverty and material hardship while it operated and had positive results in improving some education, health, and work-related outcomes.
Interim Findings from the PBS Demonstration
Interim results suggest that performance-based scholarships improve students' academic performance and increase the number of credits they earn. In some sites, the scholarships also appear to reduce student debt. In the one location for which data are available so far, the program increased the proportion of students earning a degree.
Preliminary Implementation Findings from the SaveUSA Evaluation
SaveUSA, a pilot program in New York City, Newark, San Antonio, and Tulsa, offers a matched savings account to low-income tax filers, building on the opportunity presented by tax-time refunds, especially the Earned Income Tax Credit. This 12-page brief offers early implementation findings.
While we know how to help low-income individuals prepare for and find work, too many end up in low-wage jobs and never advance up the career ladder. This policy memo describes what we've learned about advancement strategies — both those that show promise and those that don't work.
Too many students enter college underprepared, drop out, and never earn a credential that would give them access to stable, well-paid jobs. Part of our "Looking Forward" series, this policy memo describes some promising college readiness programs that can provide students with the skills they need to successfully complete college, but cautions that more evidence is needed.
America faces a two-pronged problem in higher education: increasing costs and low completion rates. Part of our "Looking Forward" series, this policy memo describes how offering financial aid that rewards academic progress may help students pay for college and complete their degrees more quickly.
Early Findings from a Program for Housing Voucher Recipients in New York City
Opportunity NYC–Work Rewards is testing three ways of increasing work among families receiving housing vouchers — services and a savings plan under the federal Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program, the FSS program plus cash incentives for sustained full-time work, and the cash incentives alone. Early results suggest intriguing positive findings for certain subgroups.
Lessons from Two New York City Community Colleges
Can a scholarship without services improve academic progress? For adult developmental education students, this program encouraged more full-time enrollment during the semesters in which it operated and increased registration and credit accumulation in the summer semester, but it did not increase the average number of semesters registered or credits earned over two years.
In this commentary published by Spotlight on Poverty, MDRC President Gordon Berlin makes the case for creating a more flexible safety net that continues to reward work when jobs are plentiful, provides employment to poor families when jobs disappear, and begins to address the problem of stagnant wages at the low end of the labor market.
The Effects of New York City's Conditional Cash Transfer Program
What happens if parents and their teenagers are offered cash incentives if the teens go to school and pass their exams? Teens spend more time on academically oriented activities but are no more likely to be engaged in school. Parents save more for college. Surprisingly, teens are less likely to engage in risky behaviors.
Implementation and Final Impacts of the Work Advancement and Support Center (WASC) Demonstration
WASC sought to increase the incomes of low-wage workers by stabilizing employment, improving skills, increasing earnings, and easing access to work supports. The program increased workers' receipt of work supports. In the two sites that eased access to funds for training, WASC increased the receipt of certificates and licenses and increased earnings in the third year.
Bridging the Gap between High School and College in Tacoma, Washington
Getting Ready for Success provides low-income students in Tacoma with academic and social supports and monetary incentives during the late high school and early college years to increase their motivation and ability to succeed in college.
An Impact Study of Eight Developmental Summer Bridge Programs in Texas
Eight developmental summer bridge programs offered accelerated and focused learning opportunities for entering college students with low skills in Texas. An evaluation shows positive impacts on introductory college-level course completion in math and writing, which faded by the end of two years. The programs had no impact on persistence or the average number of credits students attempted or earned.
Lessons from the Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Project
Many recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and other low-income individuals find or keep jobs for a while, but far fewer remain steadily employed and advance in the labor market. This report describes results and draws lessons from rigorous evaluations of 12 programs seeking to improve employment retention and advancement among low-wage workers.
This policy brief, developed by the Urban Institute for the federal Administration for Children and Families, summarizes research on strategies that can increase TANF recipients' and other low-income adults' engagement and persistence in postsecondary education and training and boost their earnings.
An Introduction to the Performance-Based Scholarship Demonstration in California
One of six sites in MDRC's national demonstration, California's program, run in partnership with Cash for College, is testing performance-based scholarships of differing amounts and durations that supplement existing aid and that students can use at any accredited postsecondary institution.
This brief summarizes results from performance-based scholarship programs in Louisiana, New Mexico, New York, and Ohio. These scholarships can move the dial on important markers of academic success for students, including credits attempted and earned and rates of full-time enrollment.
An Implementation and Early Impacts Study of Eight Texas Developmental Summer Bridge Programs
For entering college students with low basic skills, eight intensive summer programs provided accelerated instruction in math, reading, and/or writing; academic support; a "college knowledge" component; and the opportunity to receive a $400 stipend. Early results suggest that participants were more likely to pass entry-level college courses in math and writing.
This policy brief, developed by the Urban Institute for the federal Administration for Children and Families, examines what is known about welfare recipients with serious barriers to work, what states are doing to serve them, and what research says about which interventions are most effective.
Early Findings from a Performance-Based Scholarship Program at the University of New Mexico
Low-income freshmen received financial support if they enrolled full time, maintained a "C" average, and received enhanced academic advising. After one year, students attempted and earned more credits, received more financial aid dollars and in some cases reduced their loans, and registered for more credits in the third semester.
Final Evidence from the UK Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Demonstration
The British ERA program's distinctive combination of post-employment advisory support and financial incentives was designed to help low-income individuals who entered work sustain employment and advance in the labor market. It produced short-term earnings gains for two target groups but sustained increases in employment and earnings and positive benefit-cost results for the third target group, long-term unemployed individuals.
Lessons from Research and Practice
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.
Early Impacts from the Performance-Based Scholarship Demonstration in New York
Low-income adults needing remediation received a scholarship if they maintained at least part-time enrollment and met attendance and grade point average benchmarks. Early results show that the program modestly increased full-time enrollment and, among students who were eligible for summer funding, summer registration.
How Families Responded to Education Incentives in New York City's Conditional Cash Transfer Program
Opportunity NYC-Family Rewards was a conditional cash transfer program that provided payments to low-income families for achieving specific health, education, and employment goals. Drawing on in-depth interviews, this report looks at how families viewed the education incentives, communicated about them with their children, reinforced educational rewards, and advanced their quality of life through the program.
Implementing the Fort Worth Work Advancement and Support Center Program
This report examines the design and operation of a program called Project Earn, in Fort Worth, Texas, one of four sites in MDRC's Work Advancement and Support Center demonstration. The program combined two types of income-building services for low-wage workers — skills training and connection to work supports, such as food stamps, child care subsidies, and tax credits — and delivered them in workplaces in collaboration with employers.
A Synthesis of Findings from an Evaluation at Six Community Colleges
MDRC's Opening Doors Demonstration, launched in 2003 with six community colleges, provides some of the first rigorous evidence that a range of interventions can improve educational outcomes for community college students. This 12-page policy brief describes the strategies tested, discusses the results, and offers suggestions to policymakers and practitioners for moving forward.
Delivery, Take-Up, and Outcomes of In-Work Training Support for Lone Parents
This report presents new findings from Britain's Employment Advancement and Retention demonstration, which tested the effectiveness of a program to improve the labor market prospects of low-paid workers and unemployed people. The report assesses whether coaching by advisers and financial incentives encouraged single-parent participants to take and complete training courses and whether training had an impact on their advancement in the labor market.
Findings from the Employment Retention and Advancement Project
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.
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.
This report from the national Employment Retention and Advancement Project demonstrates that low-income single-parent and two-parent families have a roughly equivalent need for services to support employment retention and advancement and that this need does not differ substantially between men and women in two-parent families.
Early Results from the Performance-Based Scholarship Demonstration in Ohio
Low-income parents at three community colleges in Ohio were offered a cash incentive, contingent on meeting academic benchmarks, to enhance their progress in school. For the first cohort, the performance-based scholarship program increased full-time enrollment and the number of credits attempted and earned, while reducing educational debt.
Evidence from the WASC Demonstration
Although many states are taking steps to offer simplified access to the food stamp program, little is known about the effect this might have on food stamp error rates. This paper studies the effects on error rates in two sites that were part of the Work Advancement Support Center demonstration, which aimed to help individuals in low-income jobs boost their income by making the most of available work supports, including food stamps.
Using Earnings Supplements to Improve Employment Retention and Advancement Programs in Texas and the United Kingdom
Although much is known about how to help welfare recipients find jobs, there is less hard evidence about what can be done to help current and former recipients and other low-wage workers stay employed or advance in the labor market. This paper looks closely at one strategy — providing earnings supplements, or stipends, to current and former welfare recipients who maintain stable full-time employment — that was used at sites in Texas and in the United Kingdom.
This report examines the financial benefits and costs of three different programs in the national Employment Retention and Advancement project, sponsored by the federal Administration for Children and Families, that have increased employment and earnings among current and former welfare recipients.
Final Impacts for Twelve Models
This report presents the final implementation and impact findings for 12 programs in the national Employment Retention and Advancement project, sponsored by the federal Administration for Children and Families. These programs attempted to promote steady work and career advancement for current and former welfare recipients and other low-wage workers, most of whom were single mothers.
Early Findings from New York City's Conditional Cash Transfer Program
Targeted toward low-income families in six high-poverty New York City communities, Opportunity NYC-Family Rewards offers cash payments tied to efforts and achievements in children's education, family preventive health care practices, and parents' employment. In its first two years, the program substantially reduced poverty and material hardship and had positive results in improving some education, health-related, and work-related outcomes.
Seven-Year Findings from the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
An extended analysis of Jobs-Plus, an ambitious employment program inside some of the nation's poorest inner-city public housing developments, finds substantial effects on residents' earnings a full three years after the program ended.
Will the Past Be Prologue?
In remarks given at a conference sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration, MDRC President Gordon Berlin looks at the extraordinary challenges the current labor market presents to employment policy generally and WIA reauthorization specifically, outlines what we have (and haven't) learned from research, and makes recommendations for future directions.
Lessons for Practitioners
This 12-page brief distills practical implementation lessons from four programs that help low-wage workers access and retain child care subsidies, public health insurance, the Earned Income Tax Credit, food stamps, and other related government benefits.
An Introduction to the Performance-Based Scholarship Demonstration
This policy brief describes a demonstration launched by MDRC in four states in 2008 to evaluate whether performance-based scholarships — paid contingent on attaining academic benchmarks — are an effective way to improve persistence and academic success among low-income college students. The demonstration builds on positive results from an earlier MDRC study in Louisiana.
WASC is an innovative strategy to help low-wage workers increase their incomes by stabilizing employment, improving skills, increasing earnings, and easing access to work supports. In its first year, WASC connected more workers to food stamps and publicly funded health care coverage and, in one site, substantially increased training activities.
A Research Note for Funders
Targeted toward very low-income families in six high-poverty New York City communities, Family Rewards offers cash payments tied to efforts and achievements in children's education, family preventive health care practices, and parents' employment. This paper reviews data on participants' receipt of rewards and offers preliminary estimates of the program's impacts on selected educational outcomes during the first year.
Preliminary Analysis
This report presents a preliminary analysis of the cost of operating Britain's Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) demonstration, which is being evaluated though a large-scale randomised control trial. This assessment of costs will become an important element of the full cost-benefit analysis to be presented in future ERA reports.
A Synthesis of Research
Most welfare programs seek to ensure that poor families have adequate income while at the same time encouraging self-sufficiency. Based on studies of 28 programs involving more than 100,000 sample members, this synthesis compares the costs, benefits, and returns on investment of six welfare program strategies -- from the perspectives of participants, government budgets, and society as a whole.
Effects of a Performance-Based Scholarship Program for Low-Income Parents
This report describes the impacts of a performance-based scholarship program with a counseling component on academic success and persistence among low-income parents. Students who participated in the program, which was operated at two New Orleans-area colleges as part of MDRC's multisite Opening Doors demonstration, were more likely to stay in school, get higher grades, and earn more credits.
Engaging Low-Wage Workers in Career Advancement
The Work Advancement and Support Center (WASC) demonstration offers a new approach to helping low-wage and dislocated workers advance by increasing their wages or work hours, upgrading their skills, or finding better jobs. This report presents preliminary information on the effectiveness of strategies that were used to attract people to the WASC program and engage them in services.
A Guide for Practitioners Based on the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
This guide contains practical advice on implementing a program model — known as the Jobs-Plus Community Initiative for Public Housing Families (Jobs-Plus) — aimed at helping public housing residents find and keep jobs.
This report published by the UK Department for Work and Pensions presents new findings on the effects of a program to help long-term unemployed individuals who receive government benefits in Great Britain and participate in a welfare-to-work program, New Deal 25 Plus, retain jobs and advance in the labor market.
Implemented in 1994, New Hope provided full-time workers with several benefits for three years: an earnings supplement, low-cost health insurance, and subsidized child care. This working paper examines the effects of New Hope on children's social behavior, parent-child relationships, and participation in out-of-school activities eight years after random assignment.
Implemented in 1994, New Hope provided full-time workers with several benefits for three years: an earnings supplement, low-cost health insurance, and subsidized child care. This working paper examines the program's impacts on employment and earnings, as well as on family income and poverty, up to eight years beyond the point of random assignment.
Effects After Eight Years for Families and Children
Implemented in 1994 in Milwaukee, New Hope provided full-time, low-wage workers with several benefits for three years: an earnings supplement, low-cost health insurance, and subsidized child care. A random assignment study shows positive effects for both adults and children, some of which persisted five years after the program ended.
Implemented in 1994, New Hope provided full-time workers with several benefits for three years: an earnings supplement, low-cost health insurance, and subsidized child care. This working paper examines the program's impacts on children's future orientation and employment experiences eight years after random assignment.
Implemented in 1994, New Hope provided full-time workers with several benefits for three years: an earnings supplement, low-cost health insurance, and subsidized child care. This working paper examines the effects of New Hope on children's academic achievement and achievement motivation eight years after random assignment.
This report presents new and positive findings on the effects of Britain's Employment Retention and Advancement demonstration. After two years, the program increased employment and earnings for single-parent participants. ERA offered a combination of job coaching and financial incentives to encourage low-income individuals to sustain employment and progress in work.
Lessons from Research on Welfare Training Programs and Two Promising Community College Strategies
This working paper, prepared for a conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, reviews what is known about education acquisition by low-wage workers and highlights promising strategies being tested at several community colleges.
In a speech given at a conference sponsored by the French government on the role of experimental studies in reducing poverty, MDRC President Gordon Berlin described how the results of random assignment studies have acted as powerful levers for changing social policy in the United States.
Navigating Career Advancement for Low-Wage Workers
This report, from MDRC's Work Advancement and Support Center (WASC) demonstration, explores how WASC career coaches help low-wage workers understand the complex interactions between earnings and eligibility for work support programs and guide them to make the best advancement decisions possible.
A Counterintuitive Approach to Reducing Poverty and Strengthening Families
In this article in The Future of Children journal, MDRC President Gordon Berlin answers the question: If you could do one thing to reduce poverty in America, what would it be? He explores the potential advantages of expanding the federal Earned Income Tax Credit to all low-wage adults who work full time — whether they have children or not and whether they marry or not.
In these remarks, delivered at Speaker Nancy Pelosi's National Summit on America's Children on May 22, MDRC President Gordon Berlin summarizes rigorous research evidence showing that supplementing the earnings of parents helps raise families out of poverty and improves the school performance of young children.
Early Results from the Opening Doors Demonstration in Ohio
This report presents the early results from MDRC's evaluation of the Opening Doors program at Owens Community College in Toledo, Ohio. The two-semester program offered intensive student advising services and a modest scholarship to low-income students to encourage them to stay in school and earn credentials.
In his testimony before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, MDRC President Gordon Berlin argues that the most direct way to alleviate poverty is to tackle the legacy of falling wages, particularly for men with less education.
Building Evidence About What Works to Improve Self-Sufficiency
This working paper argues for building a stronger base of evidence in the housing-employment policy arena through an expanded use of randomized controlled trials.
This report published by the UK Department for Work and Pensions presents encouraging findings on the early effects of Britain's Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Demonstration. Aimed at helping low-income individuals sustain employment and progress in work, ERA offers a combination of job coaching and financial incentives to participants once they are working.
In a rapidly growing low-wage labor market, the workforce investment system and the Workforce Investment Act should expand their focus to include job retention and advancement services by engaging private employers and to enhance the accessibility of work supports.
Evidence from the UK Employment Retention and Advancement Demonstration
This study for the UK Department for Work and Pensions explores the attitudes of a sample of participants in the UK Employment Retention and Advancement program. This rare employment study on low-paid workers in the United Kingdom offers a foundation for understanding the receptivity of low-paid workers to programs that help them remain employed and advance.
The Effect of Project GRAD on High School Student Outcomes in Three Urban School Districts
This report describes the effects of Project GRAD, an ambitious education reform that targets high schools and the elementary and middle schools that feed into them, on a variety of student outcomes in high schools in Houston, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; and Columbus, Ohio.
The Effect of Project GRAD on Elementary SchoolStudent Outcomes in Four Urban Districts
This report describes the effects of Project GRAD, an ambitious education reform that targets high schools and the elementary and middle schools that feed into them, on student test scores in elementary schools in Houston, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Columbus, Ohio; and Newark, New Jersey.
Presented Before the Subcommittee on Federalism and the Census, House Committee on Government Reform
MDRC's study of Jobs-Plus, an employment program for public housing residents, offered the first hard evidence that a work-focused intervention based in public housing can effectively boost residents' earnings and promote their self-sufficiency. Congress may wish to consider introducing Jobs-Plus in additional housing developments across the country.
Early Results of a Louisiana Scholarship Program for Low-Income Parents Attending Community College
Funded by state welfare dollars, two community colleges in the New Orleans area offered performance-based scholarships and enhanced counseling to low-income parents, as part of MDRC's Opening Doors demonstration. These early findings show the program had significant positive effects on academic achievement and rates of retention.
Evidence from the UK Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Demonstration
The largest ever random assignment test of a social policy in Britain is being applied in a demonstration of the Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) program. This report, written by MDRC and British colleagues as part of a consortium of social policy research firms and produced for the UK Department for Work and Pensions, examines how well random assignment worked.
Launching the Work Advancement and Support Center Demonstration
The Work Advancement and Support Center demonstration tests an innovative approach to fostering employment retention, career advancement, and increased take-up of work supports for a broad range of low-earners, including reemployed dislocated workers. This report examines start-up experiences in the first two sites: Dayton, Ohio, and San Diego, California.
An evaluation of a job placement, retention, and advancement program for individuals receiving welfare showed some effects — but not consistent or large effects — on employment and retention outcomes during the first two years of follow-up.
Design Principles for a Study on Teacher Incentives
This paper, produced by MDRC and the Laboratory for Student Success at Temple University, describes design principles for a study about the use of incentives to recruit and retain high-quality teachers for underperforming schools.
An MDRC evaluation of Moving Up, a program in South Carolina that aimed to help former welfare recipients obtain jobs, work more steadily, and move up in the labor market, found that the program had little effect on employment rates, earnings, employment retention, or advancement.
Promoting Work in Seattle Public Housing During a HOPE VI Redevelopment
Early success for this ambitious employment program for public housing residents in Seattle was disrupted by a federal HOPE VI grant to tear down and revitalize the housing development.
An Update on the Effects of Four Earnings Supplement Programs on Employment, Earnings, and Income
Four programs that supplemented the earnings of low-income adults increased employment, earnings, and income — particularly for the most disadvantaged — but these effects generally faded after the programs ended.
Six-Year Impacts on Parents and Children from the Minnesota Family Investment Program
While positive effects on most parents' earnings and income faded after six years, young children in some of the most disadvantaged families were still performing better in school than their counterparts in a control group. And, for the most disadvantaged parents, MFIP seems to have created a lasting "leg up" in the labor market.
Early results are mixed for Employment Retention and Advancement project programs in four sites, but programs in two sites appear to help some welfare recipients work more steadily and advance to higher-paying jobs.
The Opening Doors Demonstration
The Opening Doors Demonstration is designed to show how community colleges can help more low-income students remain in school and improve other outcomes, including degree attainment, labor market success, and personal and social well-being.
The Effectiveness of Jobs-Plus
Jobs-Plus, an ambitious employment program inside some of the nation's poorest inner-city public housing developments, markedly increased the earnings of residents in the sites where it was implemented well.
Services That May Help Low-Income Students Succeed in Community College
Community colleges can pursue many strategies for enhancing student services, including offering "one-stop shopping," which provides students with multiple services at the same time and place.
Seattle Jobs-Plus — part of an MDRC national research demonstration designed to promote employment among public housing residents — succeeded in engaging a majority of residents, many of whom were immigrants from diverse parts of the world, in work-related services or supports.
Lessons from the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
This report examines how public housing authorities in six cities implemented one of the most innovative features of the Jobs-Plus demonstration: using incentives plans to keep rents lower than they would have been under existing rules as a way to encourage and reward work among public housing residents.
Implementing the Community Support for Work Component of Jobs-Plus
The "community support for work" component of Jobs-Plus relies on outreach workers from public housing developments to help extend Jobs-Plus's reach in public housing communities.
Improving Services for Low-Income Working Families
A collaboration of MDRC and the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, this report explores how best to improve job stability and career advancement of low-wage earners and increase their household income.
Lessons from the Jobs-Plus Demonstration in Public Housing
From the Jobs-Plus initiative, this report describes efforts to build participation among public housing residents in a program that offers services and financial incentives designed to promote work.
Building on findings that the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) resulted in higher rates of marital stability among two-parent recipient families who participated in this initiative that provided financial incentives to welfare recipients who worked, this report documents MFIP's long-term effects on marriage and divorce among participants in the program's sample of nearly 2,500 two-parent families who were married or cohabiting at study entry.
Early Implementation Experiences of Employment Retention and Advancement Programs
Describing the initial experiences of 15 Employment Retention and Advancement programs in 8 states, this report emphasizes implementation issues and focuses on connections among the agencies and institutions that deliver retention and advancement services to low-income workers and hard-to-employ populations.
Evidence from Connecticut and Minnesota
Using data from two random assignment welfare reform experiments, this report contributes insights to efforts to foster economic self-sufficiency in both the assisted housing and the welfare policy arenas.
How Financial Aid Affects Nontraditional Students in Community Colleges
Examining federal, state, and institutional programs, the paper presents a framework for understanding challenges to securing comprehensive financial assistance for low-income working students.
Instructional Innovations That Help Low-Income Students Succeed in Community College
This paper looks at curricular and program redesign strategies currently used by community colleges to speed nontraditional students' advancement from lower levels of skill into credential programs and to shorten the time commitment required to earn a credential.
Five-Year Results of a Program to Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare
This rigorous long-term evaluation reveals that building a safety net of financial supports for low-income parents who work improved the well-being of their children.
How to Design and Implement Financial Work Supports
This latest MDRC how-to guide identifies program features and practices that can help states better target financial work incentives and maximize their effectiveness.
Lessons from Jobs-Plus About the Mobility of Public Housing Residents and Implications for Place-Based Initiatives
This paper begins to fill a void in the understanding of residential mobility in low-income communities by examining intended and actual out-migration patterns of a cohort of residents of five public housing developments.
Key Features of Mature Employment Programs in Seven Public Housing Communities
Aiming to significantly increase employment and economic self-sufficiency among public housing residents since its inception in 1997, the Jobs-Plus Community Revitalization Initiative for Public Housing Families created and operated on-site job centers at each of seven public housing developments in six cities across the nation.
An Examination of the Children at the Beginning of the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
Children who live in public housing are commonly thought to be at greater risk of experiencing academic and behavioral problems than other low-income children, but this paper is among the few to explore empirically the characteristics and circumstances of these children.
The Jobs-Plus Experience in Public Housing Developments
Through extensive ethnographic interviews with staff and residents of two Jobs-Plus housing developments in Seattle and St. Paul, this report explains how a range of social and personal issues characteristic of largely immigrant public housing residents can render conventional employment and support services ineffective.
Findings from the Jobs-Plus Baseline Survey
Tapping a deep pool of survey data to learn about residents' connections to the labor market, this report dispels some widespread misconceptions. For example, it finds that even in places with high rates of joblessness, many public housing residents have work histories that are extensive and varied, albeit typically in unstable, low-wage jobs.
The latest report from the Opening Doors project explores how to help low-wage workers move toward career advancement and higher wages by enrolling in and completing community college programs.
Recognizing that welfare recipients who find jobs may remain poor, the "make work pay" approach rewards those who work by boosting their income. This strategy was the centerpiece of the Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP), a large-scale demonstration program in Canada that offered monthly earnings supplements to single parents who left welfare for full-time work.
Evidence and Lessons to Guide TANF Reauthorization
An Introduction to the Employment Retention and Advancement Project
Welfare reform has resulted in millions of low-income parents replacing the receipt of public cash assistance with income from employment. But what strategies will help the new workforce entrants find more stable jobs, advance in the labor market, and achieve long-term self-sufficiency? The Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) evaluation is a comprehensive effort to explore this urgent public policy question.
Final Report on Connecticut's Welfare Reform Initiative
Interim Findings from the Self-Sufficiency Project's Applicant Study
Learning from the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
New Experimental Evidence on Financial Work Incentives and Pre-Employment Services
Can Reform Resolve Welfare Policy's Thorniest Conundrum?
Collaboration Among Agencies and Public Housing Residents in the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
Building Services and Systems to Support California's Working Poor and Hard-to-Place
An Analysis of Welfare Leavers
The Pre-Curricular Phase of Project GRAD Newark
Key Findings from the Forty-Two-Month Client Survey
Final Report on a Work First Program in a Major Urban Center
How to Help Low-Income Parents Sustain Employment and Advance in the Workforce
Toward an Employer-Led Approach to Welfare Reform and Workforce Development
The Impact of Work Incentive Programs
Planning for the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
Forty-Two Month Impacts of Vermont's Welfare Restructuring Project
Origins and Early Accomplishments of the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
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It's Not Too Late Bill. But Soon It Will Be.
Analyzing Bill Bolling, the Republican Party of Virginia's Prodigal Son
Peter A. Finocchio, CRFV Parliamentarian
Bill Bolling is once again in the news, criticizing Virginia's "extreme" Cuccinelli-Jackson-Obenshain gubernatorial ticket. Yesterday a Farmville Herald editorial contended that Bolling must root for this year's Republican ticket to fail so that his new PAC, focused on electing "mainstream" Republicans, can be successful. Bolling has not denied this charge, instead opting to share the article on his own website. Since his failed attempt to defeat Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli in a bid for the Republican nomination, Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling has drifted far from the conservative base and Virginia's Republican Party. Because of his refusal to support our Republican ticket and his recent attacks against movement conservatives, he has been branded as a sore loser and a "RINO." His recent actions are certainly characteristic of these labels, but Bill Bolling was not always this way. Bolling was once a highly respected leader in Virginia's Republican Party. And it's not too late for Bolling to come back to the party that he has, in the past, served so well.
While Bolling has been painting Cuccinelli as "too extreme" for Virginia, their records in the Virginia Senate were not very different from each other. In fact, two years ago one Virginia conservative website remarked that "in the state senate Bill Bolling was Ken Cuccinelli before there was a Ken Cuccinelli." In 2009, Bolling was reelected Lieutenant Governor on a winning Republican gubernatorial ticket that marked the beginning of a conservative comeback in the Old Dominion. After the 2011 elections tied the Virginia Senate, Bolling cast a record 28 tie-breaking votes in favor of Republicans in the subsequent legislative session. His new role as tiebreaker in an evenly divided Senate enabled Republicans to pass conservative legislation, such as a new photo ID law for voting, that for years had passed a Republican House of Delegates only to die in a Democrat-controlled Senate. Bolling's presence was so integral to Republican legislative prospects post-2011 that one key Democrat Senator, Don McEachin, filed, but lost, a lawsuit to block the Lieutenant Governor from being able to vote on certain matters.
Bill Bolling has been a respected friend of both the Republican Party and Virginia's conservative movement for decades. It would be a shame for him to throw that away over embitterment from his failed gubernatorial bid. The aftermath of conventions and primaries is supposed to be a time of unity, when the Republican Party comes together to support its nominees. Bill Bolling can learn from the aftermath of this year's convention, when former Attorney General candidate Rob Bell rallied behind Attorney General nominee Mark Obenshain, and runner-up Lieutenant Governor candidates Pete Snyder and Corey Stewart embraced nominee E.W. Jackson after a drawn-out contest. If Bill Bolling returns to the Party and movement that he has for so many years served diligently, then he may still have a future as a statesman in this Commonwealth. Contrarily, if he should choose to abandon the Republican Party, he will share the same fate as a recent turncoat, Lincoln Chafee, the Rhode Island congressman who recently switched parties, is now trusted by neither Republicans nor Democrats.
Like the prodigal son in the Bible, Bill Bolling has squandered the political fruits reaped through decades of service to Virginians. He has burned a lot of bridges in these past few months, but if he comes back to the fold and embraces our gubernatorial ticket, he can begin to repair the damage he has done to himself and to our Party. The Republican Party of Virginia will welcome home its prodigal son with open arms, overlooking recent transgressions in remembrance of so many years of loyalty and hard work. But not for long. Time is running out and once that door closes it will not reopen.
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|Theorems about good divisors on log fano varieties (case of index r>n-2).- Fano maps and fundamental groups.- Surjectivity of gaussian maps for line bundles of large degree on curves.- De Rham complex on toroidal variety.- On rank 2 vector bundles with c 1 2 =10 and c2=3 on Enriques surfaces.- Towards the problem of rationality of conic bundles.- On DG-modules over the de rham complex and the vanishing cycles functor.- More on computing invariants.- Effective methods in invariant theory.- On the structure of shafarevich-tate groups.- On the fundamental group of the complement of a hypersurface in ?n.- Braid group technique m complex geometry, II: From arrangements of lines and conics to cuspidal curves.- Notes on exceptional vector bundles and helices.- Hodge conjecture and mixed motives II.- Algebraic methods in the study of simple-elliptic singularities.- Singularity theory applied to ?-divisors.- A slight generalization of the mehta-ramanathan theorem.- Some properties of dual varieties and their applications in projective geometry.- Linear irreducible lie algebras and hodge structures.- Ussr participants.
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Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg has shot down any retail prices for Kinect as 'speculative'.
There has already been talk doing the rounds that Kinect would be bundled with some software for $149.99, as it appeared on various retail websites.
However, Greenberg was quick to shoot down those prices on his official Twitter account.
Retail prices are purely speculative," he writes. "Final pricing and pack-in details are not yet determined."
So we're none the wiser. The price of Kinect was the one vital bit of info Microsoft was missing yesterday and will play a huge part in whether the new technology succeeds or not. Feel free to make your price predictions below. It's what everyone else seems to be doing, right now...


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These Discounted Flash Drives Are Your Android's Best Friend
Update: Amazon has price matched all of the models, so if Best Buy is sold out, or if you prefer shopping at Amazon, it's an option now. »
Update: Amazon has price matched all of the models, so if Best Buy is sold out, or if you prefer shopping at Amazon, it's an option now. »
Despite countless ways for us to share information online, business cards are somehow still a popular way to pass on contact info. So instead of trying to replace them, the creators of the swivelCard simply found a way to make business cards better with a built-in USB port that lets you share everything from your… »
Even with wireless networks and cloud storage services like Dropbox, there's still a place in this day and age for manually sharing files on a flash drive. And to ensure you've always got one on hand for an emergency file transfer, the silicone Verb watch features four gigs of storage built into a simple but stylish… »
Is this tiny flash drive from Kingston with a standard USB jack on end and a smartphone-friendly microUSB jack on the other the first of its kind? Absolutely not. Is it the smallest we've seen to date? Most definitely. When connected to your smartphone—boosting your mobile device's storage by up to 64GB—it's small… »
How often do you remove a USB flash drive from your computer, place it somewhere on your desk, and then have it instantly disappear? Too often. It's one of those bizarre mysteries of—life like socks going missing in the dryer—that LaCie may have just eradicated with its bulbous new Culbuto flash drive. »
It turns out that trusty USB flash drive you've been using to sneakernet files between your computers has been slacking off. At least compared to the new i-FlashDrive from PhotoFast that features four connectors so it can be used with mobile devices like your Android phone as well as old and new iOS devices. »
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When it comes to prolonging the life of your laptop, there's no easier upgrade than adding an ultra-compact USB flash drive to expand its storage capacity—particularly if it's got a small SSD on board. And a company called PKparis is now laying claim to the title of 'world's smallest USB 3.0 flash drive' with its new … »
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The NEW Chapter Energy Committee gets active on WV energy issues
When the call went out several moons ago for volunteers to serve on the Energy committee, I hesitated, knowing that I dont have the breadth of knowledge that Jim Kotcon, Duane Nichols, Allan Tweddle or Mary Rehmann possess. I can help with media, so that is the subcommittee I am on, and thus, writing this article.Barbara Fallon is our moderator and organizer and we have developed six sub-committees. Media includes Nate Parr and myself. National Agenda is shared by Jim K and Allan T. Cool Cities is chaired by Jim K and includes Allan, Rodger Dotson, Mary Rehmann, Patricia Reilly, and Joshua Rutkowski. Net Metering includes Bill DePaulo (attorney who worked$ to get net metering passed by the PSC), Jonathan Rosenbaum and Robert Handley. Membership is Barb Fallon. Global Warming is chaired by Allan and includes Duane Nichols and Bill DePaulo.
I wont go into depth on all of the issues that the committee has discussed, since several will be covered elsewhere in the newsletter. Our newest initiative is to try and contact many of the groups which are in opposition to the Allegheny Power High Voltage Transmission Line forsharing of technical and legal information. Duane and Rodger are assemblinginformation on the opposition groups and will try and convene a meeting in June, to include public officials.We will draft a letter of concern to the Public Service Commission, which is considering Allegheny Powers request for construction of the line.
Public hearings will be held and well need to organize effective comments. This power line is felt to be necessary to accommodate increased demand for electricity on the eastern seaboard. WVEC and our energy committee feel strongly that if the utilities would direct this money towards energy conservation, as California has done, we could avert the increased electricity demand.The line is intended to carry power from large power plants, but our energy future will depend less on large power plants and more on dispersed energy sources from renewables. To find out more, go the projects website at www.aptrailinfo.com. Copies of the PSC application will be available at public libraries. The PSC website is at www.psc.state.wv.us and you can search for case # 07-0508.
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Andrew, Thanks for sharing the photo. Like Andrew F. It makes me want to go out again. Looking forward to your TR. Manfred
Yes on name tags
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