This report is from the Women's Economic Security Campaign, and outlines barriers to social mobility facing low-income women across the United States. In March 2010, the unemployment rate for women with families was 11.3 percent, which is the…

The AfterZones initiative is a program out of Providence, Rhode Island to improve after school care city-wide. This model is designed to service children in a neighborhood “campus” structure, and allows youth to travel between different sites…

This innovative program highlight is from the Center on Law and Social Policy, and provides information on Kentucky’s Ready-to-Work program. A collaboration between the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services and the Kentucky Community…

This innovative program highlight is from the Center on Law and Social Policy, and provides information on the Arkansas Career Pathways Initiative (CPI) program. CPI provides academic and support services for low-income, low-skill individuals to…

This program highlight is from the Center on Law and Social Policy, and provides information on the Pennsylvania Keystone Education Yields Success (KEYS) program. The program assists parents receiving TANF or SNAP benefits who are in certificate…

In 2005, Achieve launched the American Diploma Project (ADP) Network at the National Education Summit on High Schools. Since 2005, Achieve has been annually monitoring state progress in college and career readiness for its populations. At the…

New York City’s Human Resource Administration designed and implemented the WeCARE program to assist the high number of TANF participants on their caseload with clinical barriers to work; the model has since been successful in moving clients with…

Education Pays 2010, a report released by the College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, presents the benefits of higher education in terms of several criteria. Central to their report, are the statistical differences in earned income and…

This report summarizes the final impact results for the national Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project. This project tested, using a random assignment design, the effectiveness of numerous programs intended to promote steady work and…

Community college and vocational training programs provided education to more than 6.2 million students in 2006, which represents about 35 percent of all postsecondary education students. These programs are often important in reaching low-income…