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The OFA PeerTA Archive captures historical information from the peerta.acf.hhs.gov website for reference and record-keeping purposes. The PeerTA site contains information posted within the past three years. You can search for any prior information below.

Finding the next job: Reemployment strategies in retention and advancement programs for current and former welfare recipients

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This 12-page practitioner brief focuses on one aspect of the ERA programs — that is, their strategies to reemploy the many program participants who quickly lost jobs. Limited rigorous evidence is available on reemployment strategies. Moreover…

Testing case management in a rural context: An impact analysis of the Illinois Future Steps Program

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This final report focuses on Future Steps. In this report, the authors (1) chronicle the design and operation of Future Steps, assessing program participation, service delivery, and costs; (2) examine 30-month impacts on employment, earnings,…

An economic framework and selected proposals for demonstrations aimed at strengthening marriage, employment, and family functioning outcomes

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The increasing recognition of the importance of marriage for the social and economic well-being of children has led to demonstrations aimed at strengthening and stimulating healthy marriages. The next step is to ensure that factors closely linked…

Innovative employment approaches and programs for low-income families

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The Innovative Employment Strategies project, conceived and funded by the U.S.…

Paths to work in rural places: Key findings and lessons from the impact evaluation of the Future Steps Rural Welfare-to-Work program

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Helping low-income families in rural areas find gainful employment and achieve economic self-sufficiency is an ongoing policy concern. The Rural Welfare-to-Work Strategies demonstration is using rigorous experimental designs to build knowledge…

The Employment Retention and Advancement project: Results from the Texas ERA site

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Although much is known about how to help welfare recipients find jobs, little is…

The Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project: Early results from four sites

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Millions of welfare recipients have entered the labor force in the past decade, but…

Report on a meta-analysis of Welfare-to-Work programs

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This report uses meta-analysis, a set of statistically based techniques for combining  quantitative findings from different studies, to synthesize estimates of program effects from  random assignment evaluations of welfare-to-work…

What Can We Expect Under Personal Reemployment Accounts? Predictions and Procedures

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Authored by Paul T. Decker and Irma L. Perez-Johnson. This Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. report discusses the effects and impacts of Personal Reemployment Accounts (PRAs). PRAs provide additional assistance and incentives to unemployed…

Implementing Welfare-to-Work programs in rural places: Lessons from the Rural Welfare-to-Work Strategies demonstration evaluation

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Rural low-income families trying to find jobs, maintain employment, and secure longer-term well-being face distinct challenges. In rural labor markets, jobs tend to be scarcer than in urban ones, and the jobs that are available more often involve…

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