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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.

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Social safety net programs, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), provide critical resources to help poor and low-income families in the United States meet their basic needs. In 2009, 24 percent of children from immigrant…

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From the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this profile provides information on the working poor in 2009. Around 14.3 percent of the population, 43.6 million people, in the United States was living at or below the federal poverty level. Around 10.4…

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From MDRC, this report discusses the implementation of an enhanced version of the Early Head Start (EHS) program. Authors provide an overview of challenges to implementation as well as short-term outcomes of the program on children and parents.…

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The National Skills Coalition authored this report as part of the Skills2Compete campaign, which focuses on identifying gaps in the skills of the workforce and the state’s training and education policies. In particular, middle skills jobs account…

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As part of the Metropolitan Policy Program through the Brookings Institution, this paper analyzes poverty across cities and suburbs as a result of the recession. Since December 2007, 6.6 million people have become unemployed, and the need for…

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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…

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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…

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From Public/Private Ventures, this white paper provides an overview of how nonprofits are evaluated. Authors propose an approach to engage nonprofit practitioners as partners in evaluation efforts in order to provide a tailored approach to each…

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A representative from the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services would like to know which of the 50 states have moved their TANF programs to the Department of Workforce/Employment Security Divisions from Department of Human Services? How are the programs working there? Did the caseloads drop and were States able to get more participants into employment since the move?

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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…

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