Economic mobility remains elusive for far too many Americans and has been declining for several decades. Reversing this overall decline to address the persistent racial, ethnic, and gender gaps in economic mobility is one of the great challenges…

This dataset identifies monthly TANF Contingency Fund awards by state for Fiscal Year 2019, as of July 15, 2019. The table lists each of the 16 grantee states (including the District of Columbia), the number of months for which contingency funds…

The Administration for Children and Families, is accepting nominations (including self-nominations) of state, territory, and county TANF agencies to become TANF agency pilots under the TANF Data Collaborative and receive support in becoming more…

MDRC will host a webinar on July 18, 2019 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET to introduce the TANF Data Collaborative (TDC) and launch the TDC Pilot. Presenters will discuss three ways that TDC supports data-driven management and will cover how TANF…

This National Skills Coalition brief offers guidance on how TANF and other public assistance programs could shift emphasis to skills and employment outcomes, like those used by WIOA common measures, rather than a procedural process that measures the…

On February 7, 2019 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. ET, the National Association of Counties will host the third of a three-part webinar series on evidence-based policymaking. The previous two webinars,…

In this February 6, 2019 webinar from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET, the WIOA performance accountability team from the U.S. Departments of Labor and Education will discuss recent federal guidance on data validation for state reporting. The webinar will…

Using data to inform, create, and administer service provision is the best way to ensure effective programmatic change. On January 31, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. ET, Mathematica will host a webinar for practitioners to explore using administrative data in…

This blog post from Child Trends presents findings from a recent Early Childhood Data Collaborative survey, which noted that 22 states have created data sharing systems to measure the utilization and outcomes of early childhood services. However,…

This interactive data dashboard, developed as a collaborative research project between the U.S. Census Bureau and researchers from Harvard University and Brown University, is a comprehensive Census tract-level dataset of children’s outcomes in…