Recent state, tribal, and territorial use of pandemic emergency assistance funding (PEAF) demonstrated the utility of providing customized approaches to meet the needs of low-income families. Program evolution, whether driven by a pandemic,…

The Promise is a public-private partnership dedicated to meeting some of the goals of the City of Philadelphia’s Poverty Action Plan. Key aspects of The Promise include “community challenges,” wherein community-based organizations receive funding…

New America and Bloomberg teamed up five years ago to launch the Shift Commission on Work, Workers, and Technology, which engaged more than 100 leaders in business, technology, policy, and academia and surveyed over a thousand Americans to study…

This On the Evidence podcast looks at proven ways to help job seekers with low incomes during economic recessions and recoveries. It also includes insights from the Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse, a publicly available website about…

The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) provides federal money to states, territories, and tribes to subsidize the cost of child care for working families with low incomes. Policies vary widely across jurisdictions, with states, territories,…

Being mentored helps young people, particularly young people at risk, stay healthy and safe. Yet the COVID-19 pandemic challenged traditional strategies for engaging youth and prompted mentoring models to evolve. This report explores how both…

The Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) hosted a Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month Event in February 2023 and featured a panel of youth engaged in violence prevention efforts in their communities. This recording includes the remarks from…

This article notes that while the financial return from a bachelor’s degree is softening, even as the price of tuition and average debt load for college students remain high, high school graduates are so effectively encouraged to get a bachelor’s…

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) is the nation’s most important anti-hunger program, reaching 38 million people nationwide in 2019 alone. These fact sheets provide state-by-state data on who…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is announcing…