In 1994, the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Services for Families with Infants and Toddlers set forth a vision for Early Head Start programs in declaring that all child care settings used by Early Head Start families, whether or not the…

The Jobs Initiative, through the Annie E. Casey Foundation, sought to support low-income people in job retention. This report reviews the key findings from the 8-year initiative and includes a guide to help communities build capacity to help…

This paper from the Center for the Study of Social Policy is part of a series on improving service delivery to victims and families affected by domestic violence. Particularly, domestic violence can have a wide range of effects on children,…

This article through the Annie E. Casey Foundation reviews the high cost of poverty for working families in rural areas. It identifies challenges for working families in rural communities such as the high cost of health care, housing, and basic…

This study explores the relationship between TANF and WIA programs in aiding TANF recipients and achieving the goals of each program. By conducting site visits, the coordination of TANF and WIA was assessed to identify how the low-income…

This research includes 27 cities and the status of hunger and homelessness. The research is based on information from the cities on the demand for emergency food and shelter and the capacity to handle the need, the causes of hunger and…

The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 directed HHS to study the most useful statistics for tracking and predicting dependence on three means-tested cash and nutritional assistance programs: TANF, Food Stamps, and SSI. This annual report presents…

This study, for the Office of Policy Development and Research and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, identifies successful community-wide approaches to reducing homelessness and achieve stable housing.

This report examines the effects of welfare and work policies on earnings, welfare benefits, income, stable employment, and stable welfare exits across a range of subgroups using information from random assignment studies of 26 welfare and work…

We offer a framework to help marriage educators think more thoroughly, systematically, and creatively about intervention opportunities to strengthen marriage. We draw attention to the educational dimensions of content, intensity, methods, timing…