This National Governors Association’s Center for Best Practices guide offers concrete policies and recommendations to create and enhance workforce systems to better prepare workers for future employment opportunities. The report focuses on three key…

This report by Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath) provides a comprehensive analysis of various ways in which poverty can affect families, and discusses the intergenerational model developed by EMPath to combat these effects. The authors emphasize…

This Urban Institute report highlights qualitative data to explain the reasons why low-wage workers apply for public assistance initially. The report is drawn from interviews with 40 individuals who recently separated from low-wage work and received…

This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation report evaluates two approaches for subsidized employment targeted for Los Angeles County TANF recipients. The report compares the two programs to analyze which appears to be more effective. It also…

This Jobs for the Future report reviews the core features of career pathway programs and findings of career pathway evaluations involving entry and access to the labor market for adults lacking basic reading, writing, and math skills, as well as the…

This Urban Institute report examines youth employment 2013 data in-depth (the most recent data available). There is a particular focus on disparities in employment outcomes by race and ethnicity, sex, and age, for youth ages 16-24. The report also…

This MDRC study examines the offerings of 39 adult basic skills programs and analyzes the need for these types of programs. The report identified 10 programs in high-need areas in California, where adult basic skills education is integrated with…

This Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report follows up the 2014 CDC Beginning the Dialogue report. The current report illustrates how the field has identified primary prevention and implemented the Social Ecological Model, a mapping…

The Survey of Adult Skills, a product of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), measures the proficiency of working-age adults (16-65 year-olds) in three key information-processing skills: literacy, numeracy,…

This Urban Institute report reviews the use of outcomes-based contracts (OBCs), which tie government payments to improvements in service delivery. The report examines the benefit of using OBCs to incentivize performance from external contactors, as…