This blog post reflects the importance of executive functioning and learning at an early age and shows how playing with blocks demonstrates how critical executive functioning is to children’s learning. The blog post also offers strategies used for…

This National Association of State Workforce Agencies report offers a compilation of fact sheets on workforce policies and programs for each of the 50 state workforce agencies. Each fact sheet compares labor force data and education levels for the…

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 Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation annual compendium provides comparative analysis of TANF cash assistance programs within all 50 states and the District of Columbia and identifies changes in cash assistance rules that govern TANF…

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration will host a webinar on September 12, 2019 from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET to discuss how to prepare a WIOA Annual Statewide Performance Report Narrative.…

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,…

The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation is accepting proposals for individual presentations, full conference sessions, and roundtables for the Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency (RECS) to be held in Washington, D.C. on…

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…