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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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This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation report reviews the Carreras en Salud program, established by Instituto del Progreso Latino, a nonprofit organization in Chicago, Illinois. This program strives to help low-income Latinos improve their…

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The National Telecommunications & Information Administration released a report based on data from the Census Bureau's July 2011 Current Population Survey (CPS) Computer and Internet Use Supplement. This study presents data collected from 53,…

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In the context of a public safety net focused on limiting dependency and encouraging participation in the labor market, policymakers and researchers are especially interested in individuals who face obstacles to finding and keeping jobs. The…

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Social policy evaluations usually use classical statistical methods, which may, for example, compare outcomes for program and comparison groups and determine whether the estimated differences (or impacts) are statistically significant — meaning…

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This report provides a synthesis of research and existing ACF resources for serving at-risk youth. It describes what we know from research about at-risk youth. It then describes how at-risk youth are currently being served by ACF programs and by…

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As welfare caseloads have declined over the past decade, policymakers and…

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This report summarizes the final impact results for the national Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project. This project tested, using a random assignment design, the effectiveness of numerous programs intended to promote steady work and…

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The Innovative Employment Strategies project, conceived and funded by the U.S.…

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This report uses meta-analysis, a set of statistically based techniques for combining  quantitative findings from different studies, to synthesize estimates of program effects from  random assignment evaluations of welfare-to-work…

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Rural low-income families trying to find jobs, maintain employment, and secure longer-term well-being face distinct challenges. In rural labor markets, jobs tend to be scarcer than in urban ones, and the jobs that are available more often involve…