The Effect of Child Support on the Labor Supply of Custodial Mothers Participating in TANF

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Child support is a critical source of income, especially for the growing population of children born to unmarried mothers. Given many single mothers’ limited earnings potential, child support from non-custodial fathers is also important. This paper uses data from a statewide randomized experiment conducted in Wisconsin in order to address the effects of child support on custodial mothers’ labor supply, and whether policies that increase child support receipt will discourage mothers’ employment. The evidence indicated that there is no negative effect of child support on the likelihood to work for pay or the number of hours worked in a given week. These results suggest that custodial mothers’ child support collections and their labor supply may be compatible and that the absence of a negative labor supply effect strengthens the potential antipoverty effectiveness of child support.
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2015-05-12T20:00:00
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740915001553
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2015-05-13

Career Pathways Initiatives

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The College & Career Readiness & Success Center recently released a brief on career pathways initiatives across the U.S. The brief describes major national and regional career pathways programs and presents lessons learned for States considering developing and implementing their own initiatives and programs. Out of the 29 States already participating in career pathways initiatives, eleven are involved in multiple initiatives.
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2015-08-31T20:00:00
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http://www.ccrscenter.org/sites/default/files/AskCCRS_CareerPathways.pdf
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2015-09-01
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Measuring predictors of quality in early care and education settings in the National Survey of Early Care and Education

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This methodological report describes how selected predictors of quality can be measured using data from the National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE). The report also provides descriptive data for each of the selected predictors of quality. The report considers attributes of early care and education settings that contribute to quality at the following levels: individual teacher and caregiver, classroom or home-based group, and center and home-based program at a single location. A companion report provides an annotated bibliography profiling key studies and professional standards supporting the inclusion of each measure discussed here as a predictor of quality. (author abstract)

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2014-12-31T19:00:00
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https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/measuring-predictors-of-quality-in-early-…
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2015-01-01

Measuring Access to Opportunity in the United States

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This fact sheet from the Annie E. Casey Foundation presents data from the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM). The SPM measures the impact of various social programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), as well as accounts for the rising costs and other changes that affect a family’s budget.
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2015-02-24T19:00:00
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http://www.aecf.org/resources/measuring-access-to-opportunity-in-the-united-sta…
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2015-02-25

Great Gaps Persist in State Safety Nets, Interactive Policy Tool Shows

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A recent release from the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) analyzed their newly updated 50-State Policy Tracker, an interactive online tool for comparing safety net policies critical to the economic security of working families. It reveals significant disparities between different states, demonstrating that a person’s state of residence can greatly impact his or her future success. This tool includes data by state among ten critical social programs: child care subsidies, child and dependent care tax credit, Earned Income Tax Credit, family and medical leave, income tax policy, Medicaid/Children’s Health Insurance Program, minimum wage, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and unemployment insurance.
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2014-12-31T19:00:00
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http://www.nccp.org/media/releases/release_166.html
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2015-01-01

CLASP Webinar Series on Implementing the Law: WIOA Game Plan for Low-Income People

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These webinars from the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) provided information to practitioners about implementing the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and helping low-income families achieve more economic success. Topics included expanding opportunities for low-income out-of-school youth, developing pathways out of poverty through transitional jobs, and advancing career pathways.

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2015-10-31T20:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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http://www.clasp.org/issues/postsecondary/wioa-game-plan-webinar-series
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2015-11-01

Coaching for Economic Mobility

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This document from the EMPath explains what is meant by the term "coaching," both in terms of definition and practice. The resource will present the reasons coaching is used at EMPath, define the basic components of how coaching is completed, and focus on usable information for practitioners and policymakers.

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2015-10-28T20:00:00
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http://s3.amazonaws.com/empath-website/pdf/Research-CoachingForEconomicMobility…
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2015-10-29

TANF Financial Data, Fiscal Year 2014

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This resource provides tables that compile Federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Maintenance-of-Effort (MOE) expenditures from Fiscal Year 2014, as reported by the states.
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2015-07-06T20:00:00
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http://www.acf.hhs.gov/ofa/resource/tanf-financial-data-fy-2014
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2015-07-07

Economic and Employment Advocacy E-Course

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Wider Opportunities for Women provides a 12-part online course designed to help caseworkers support survivors’ economic independence through better employment. The course is divided into three units: Pathways to Financial Security, Financial Recovery and Growth, and Addressing Barriers to Economic Security. Topics covered in the course include how to match survivors’ skills with good jobs in growing fields, how to help survivors effectively market themselves to employers, how to recover from economic abuse, and how to support survivors with barriers to employment.
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2015-10-27T20:00:00
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Best Practices Handbook: Increasing Safety and Self-Sufficiency for Survivors of Domestic Violence Through Temporary Assistance to Needy Families and Domestic Violence Agency Collaborations

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Colorado Works, Colorado’s TANF agency, created this handbook to compile best practices that enhance the well-being, safety, and economic security of domestic violence survivors who come into contact with TANF. The handbook provides the business case for collaboration between TANF and domestic violence agencies, describes how domestic violence is interrelated with poverty and TANF, and how application of the Family Violence Option in TANF can help survivors and their children. Best practices include building effective collaboration between TANF and domestic violence agencies and co-locating domestic violence advocates in a TANF agency.
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2013-06-02T20:00:00
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http://coworksevents.com/pda/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Best-Practices-Handout-…
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2013-06-03