This National Skills Coalition report identifies the role of non-degree credentials as a means to expand economic and educational opportunities for underserved workers. The report offers a proposed set of quality assurance systems for these non-…

This MDRC report is an evaluation of Breaking Barriers, a San Diego-based program that offered employment services for low-income persons with disabilities using an Individual Placement and Support approach. The report includes an implementation…

This Urban Institute report evaluates the expansion of New York City’s Jobs-Plus program. Jobs-Plus replicates an earlier federal program model intended to increase public housing residents’ employment and earnings by combining community supports,…

This Institute for Research on Poverty research paper offers an interpretation of the extent of multidimensional deprivation from 2008 to 2017. The analysis draws from the American Community Survey, and the paper measures changes in deprivation…

This MDRC report, prepared for the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is an evaluation of the Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential (LEAP)^TM initiative. LEAP is designed to improve education and employment outcomes among youth from 15 years old…

This Mathematica study analyzes the Pathways to Careers Program, which is a customized employment service model to support persons with significant disabilities access employment. This report looks at the employment, wage, and earnings outcome of…

This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation report examines the Minnesota Subsidized and Transitional Employment Demonstration (MSTED) program that is designed to increase employment outcomes for persons who receive benefits for more than six…

This Urban Institute report offers a snapshot of frontline retail workers’ characteristics, circumstances that call for more working hours, and strategies that might be used to retain and advance workers in this industry. It also highlights training…

This Brookings Institution report examines both unemployment and the underemployment rate and identifies racial disparities in the rates for both economic categorizations. The report also analyzes data trends that point to the different labor market…

This Upjohn Institute working paper reviews how place-based jobs policies should target distressed areas and focus on firms that have high-multipliers (industries with high job growth potential beyond just the individual firm creating jobs). The…