Authors in this paper, published in the Health Affairs journal, provide estimates of the rates across States for participating children as well as uninsured eligible children. Nationally, 7.3 million were uninsured on any given day in 2008, and around sixty-five percent or 4.7 million were eligible but not enrolled in the public programs. Authors also give variation in participation rates across States, which range from fifty-five to ninety-five percent.

The Employment and Training Administration is encouraging One-Stop Career Center staff and community partners to notify customers who need help in preparing their taxes to use Free File, a service that offers free federal and state tax preparation and e-file options for all taxpayers. Free File is made possible through a public-private partnership between the IRS and commercial tax software companies. If an individual's adjusted gross income was $58,000 or less in 2010, they may use brand-name software (e.g. Turbo-Tax) to complete their taxes for free. If an individual's income was more than $58,000, they may use the Free File Fillable Forms. ETA has issued a Training and Employment Notice that provides information on this free service.

Nationwide, the Housing Choice Voucher Program serves nearly 2 million low-income households mostly in urban areas. From the Urban Institute, this review of the literature explores the evidence on neighborhood location outcomes for people receiving vouchers. Voucher recipients do not experience high poverty rate, but there are disparities by race/ethnicity as neighborhood quality is lower for nonwhite households compared to whites.

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 challenges to implement this process and how to overcome them. Authors focus on Medicaid and SNAP, but also provide examples of how to include TANF, child care, and other programs in such an effort to better support working families.

Given the weak economy, many nonprofit organizations have been forced to make budget cuts, and often, these reductions are in organizational capacity, rather than direct service funding. The Finance Project authored this report in response to these trends on four approaches for nonprofit organizations serving youth, specifically, and how organizational leaders can support and strengthen their organizational capacity, including building accurate overhead rates into contracts and grants, accessing funding to directly support capacity building, accessing technical assistance to support or improve organizational capacity, and forming partnerships to share administrative services.

First Focus and the Brookings Institution released a report that provides information on child poverty, specifically during the current recession. According to the Census Bureau, one fifth of children were poor in 2009, and this report is focused on predicting child poverty for 2010 by state. Between June 2009 and 2010, food stamp/SNAP benefit receipt increased by 21 percent and the unemployment statistics are showing that unemployment for 2010 was higher than 2009. From the data, this report estimates that the number of poor children increased by one million in 2010.

Federally funded employment and training programs play an important role in helping job seekers obtain employment, and the U.S. Departments of Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services (HHS) largely administer these programs. This report from the Government Accountability Office was designed to determine: (1) whether the number of Federal employment and training programs and funding for them have changed since their 2003 report; (2) what kinds of outcome measures the programs use and what is known about program effectiveness; (3) the extent to which the programs provide similar services to similar populations; (4) the extent to which duplication may exist among selected large programs; and (5) what options exist for increasing efficiencies among these programs.

From the National Center for Children in Poverty, this report highlights information on disconnected young adults and offers pathways to help disconnected youth re-connect and gain economic independence. Disconnected youth are more likely to experience underemployment and lower earnings over their lifetimes. Specifically, young adults who are disconnected for three or more years are around 14 times more likely to be poor, and are around two to three times less likely to be employed full-time than youth who have not been disconnected. Data show that these youth also experience detrimental health consequences and are more likely to be on public assistance.

The Department of Labor has launched a new online tool will help young adults, students, first-time workers and those returning to the workforce to explore careers and find jobs. The page includes information on 900 occupations, job openings, and trainings opportunities. Users can search for jobs in three categories: careers with a "bright outlook" in growing industries, jobs that are part of the "green" economy, and occupations that have a Registered Apprenticeship program. This tool is a complement tool to the Department of Labor’s "mySkills myFuture" site at http://mySkillsmyFuture.org.

From the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities and the Center for Law and Social Policy, this paper presents the results of a telephone survey of subsidized employment programs funded all or in part with funds from the TANF Emergency Fund. The goal of this research was to understand how States used flexibility to design and implement subsidized employment programs and what challenges they faced and to provide a written record of States’ experiences that could be used to inform future efforts.