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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.

Providing Earning Supplements to Encourage and Sustain Employment: Lessons from Research and Practice

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This brief was prepared by MDRC for the Administration for Children and Families’ Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation. Authors present findings and lessons for policy and practice from a random assignment evaluation on five programs that…

Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Demonstration Delivery, Take-Up, and Outcomes of In-Work Training Support for Lone Parents

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From MDRC, this report presents findings from Britain’s Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) demonstration program, which was designed to improve the employment prospects of low-paid and long-term unemployed individuals. Researchers…

Improving the Delivery of Key Work Supports: Policy and Practice Opportunities at a Critical Moment

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This paper is from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and shows why collaboration and coordination across programs is critical in terms of policy, procedure, and data utilization. Designed for practitioners, authors discuss the…

Minnesota child care choices: Families' employment patterns and child care-related work disruptions

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One of the aims of the Minnesota Child Care Choices study is to explore the factors that influence child care stability and parents’ employment outcomes. This Research Brief looks at the work experiences of parents in the study and the…

Alternative employment strategies for hard-to-employ TANF recipients: Final results from a test of transitional jobs and preemployment services in Philadelphia

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As welfare caseloads have declined over the past decade, policymakers and…

How Effective Are Different Approaches Aiming to Increase Employment Retention and Advancement?

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The Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project was designed to evaluate and analyze employment retention and advancement models from around the country, and identify key strategies to best support families. From the Administration for…

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…

The Employment Retention and Advancement project: How effective are different approaches aiming to increase employment retention and advancement: Final Impacts for twelve models

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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…

Benefit-cost findings for three programs in the Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Project

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This report presents an analysis of the financial benefits and costs of three diverse programs designed to…

Strategies to Help Low-Wage Workers Advance Implementation and Final Impacts of the Work Advancement and Support Center (WASC) Demonstration

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MDRC issued a report on the Work Advancement and Support Center (WASC), an innovative program designed to increase the incomes of low-wage workers. The program offered participating workers intensive employment retention and advancement services…

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