New research from the Center for Poverty Research illuminates the links between low socioeconomic status (SES) and metabolic syndrome, a family of conditions that make a person more likely to experience heart disease, strokes, and diabetes. These…

This Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation report is the result of a literature review, a listening session, and individual conversations with stakeholders about the growing need for healthcare workers and the unnecessary…

In this podcast, the current chief executive officer and the former president of CareerWise Colorado discuss this career and technical education apprenticeship program for high school students. By targeting youth, the program’s innovative model…

This Brookings Institution study looks at youth financial literacy as a public policy issue. The comprehensive report presents a conceptual definition of financial literacy as well as state policies that incorporate financial education in the…

This study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM), examined the U.S. lifetime per-victim costs and economic burden of intimate partner violence. Based on 2017 analysis, the study showed that the estimated intimate partner…

This blog post from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is part of the Self-Sufficiency Series: Solutions from the Field. The series profiles local programs from across the country finding solutions that meet HHS’s Strategic Plan…

In 2009, Washington, D.C. began offering two years of full-day public preschool, citing literature on better school performance and higher parental work hours that come with preschool enrollment. This report from American Progress studies the…