This video from the New York Times reflects on the first 20 years of TANF and how poverty rates have fluctuated over that time. It poses various questions and issues for policymakers and other stakeholders to address in the coming months and years,…

This year’s Brain Awareness Night, hosted in Memphis by the Urban Child Institute and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Neuroscience Institute, featured speakers Dr. Pat Levitt and Dr. Eraina Schauss. They presented on the topic of…

In this short video, TANF practitioners explain how partnerships at their local American Job Centers are creating opportunities to reach more people who utilize their services. North Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah programs are highlighted for their…

In this four-minute video from the Center for Poverty Research at the University of California, Davis, sociologist Katherine Jewsbury Conger discusses how poverty and economic hardship impact parents and their children. She notes that early…

In this four-minute video from the Center for Poverty Research at the University of California, Davis, sociologist Victoria Smith describes the various challenges facing low-wage workers. Policies that increase earnings and stabilize work schedules…

This series of short videos from the Workforce Data Quality Campaign highlights how states are using education and workforce data to advance and better align a skilled workforce with industry demand.

In this presentation, Stephanie M. Jones, Marie and Max Kargman Associate Professor in Human Development and Urban Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, describes a new intervention that links the science of brain development with…

This four-minute video from FEMA explains the key steps to emergency preparedness for individuals and families. These include being informed, making a plan, building a kit, and getting involved.

This video from the Innovation and Opportunity Network (ION) shares information on how workforce peers are cultivating partnerships within their One-Stop centers at the state level.

This video from the Innovation and Opportunity Network (ION) shares information on how local area workforce practitioners from around the country are creating, building, and maintaining strong One-Stop partnerships.