The Indiana Office of Early Childhood and Out-of-School Learning and the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency research team collaborated to design and evaluate three behavioral interventions. These interventions aimed to improve…

The Office of Family Assistance (OFA) published an Information Memorandum (IM) about opportunities for state and tribal TANF agencies to incorporate career pathways approaches, including how they can count toward the agency’s work participation rate…

This five-minute video from the Urban Institute briefly discusses important facts related to child poverty. For instance, poverty affects children of all races, but in terms of persistent poverty, the racial gap is more apparent. The video concludes…

This toolkit from the Workforce Data Quality Campaign provides information for states to improve data infrastructure and promote the use of data. The toolkit includes details of state data policies, case studies, and legislative templates.

Ramsey County, Minnesota’s welfare counselors draft long-term employment plans for their clients. Instead of pushing clients into getting the first available job, they create plans that are broken down into manageable steps. This article from…

The Arkansas Career Pathways Initiative (CPI) uses TANF funds to provide support services to over 30,000 qualifying students enrolled in occupational programs at Arkansas community and technical colleges. This issue brief from the National Skills…