Heartland Alliance’s National Initiatives on Poverty & Economic Opportunity joined the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality (GCPI) and the National Employment Law Project for the webinar, Taking on Chronic Unemployment: Lessons Learned from 40 Years of Subsidized Employment Programs. The presenters shared the findings and recommendations from GCPI’s recent report, Lessons Learned from 40 Years of Subsidized Employment Programs, and explained how subsidized employment can be a cost-effective way to decrease persistent unemployment and to combat long-term poverty. The webinar was held on August 10, 2016.

This video from the 2016 Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency contains a breakout session focusing on disconnected families--those in which adults are neither working nor receiving cash assistance. Panelists discussed the characteristics and circumstances of these families and barriers they face to self-sufficiency.

This video from the 2016 Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency (RECS) reviews findings from the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) project as well as lessons learned and next steps for this work. The BIAS portfolio included initiatives in the domains of work supports, child support, and child care.