Creating Subsidized Employment Opportunities for Low-Income Parents: The Legacy of the TANF Emergency Fund

From the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities and the Center for Law and Social Policy, this paper presents the results of a telephone survey of subsidized employment programs funded all or in part with funds from the TANF Emergency Fund. The goal of this research was to understand how States used flexibility to design and implement subsidized employment programs and what challenges they faced and to provide a written record of States’ experiences that could be used to inform future efforts.