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.
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,…
Subsidies through the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) and TANF are often crucial to helping parents maintain employment and reach self-sufficiency. From the Urban Institute, this report provides an overview of research conducted on…
Prepared for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, this resource, authored by Mathematica Policy Research, explores aspects of voucher use between the CCDF and TANF programs. Authors address why indirect funding is…
Over 70 percent of mothers are now in the labor force, and supporting parents in the workforce is crucial for both employers and families. Authors from the Urban Institute summarize what has been done for mitigating work-family tensions, such as…
Researchers at the Department of Human Development, California State University East Bay, conducted this study examining a model of income poverty, material hardship, parenting factors, and child health status to understand how material hardship…
Lack of employer-sponsored health insurance can affect the productivity of workers and the health of their families. This paper is from the Urban Institute and offers information on access to employer-sponsored health insurance. By evaluating low…
Funded through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, this study investigated a group of families over a two and a half year period on their child care use to understand how child care…
Although much is known about how to help welfare recipients find jobs, little is…
The Innovative Employment Strategies project, conceived and funded by the U.S.…
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…