The WIOA Collection website provides information and resources to states, local areas, non-profits, grantees, and other stakeholders to assist with implementation of the Act. It includes an Action Planner, “WIOA 101,” partner sites, and more.

This blog post kicked off National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month. Although the pregnancy rate among U.S. teens has decreased by more than half since 1990, disparities remain. Some youth, including those in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems, are at a much higher risk of experiencing a pregnancy than are their peers. This post highlights the need to tailor teen pregnancy prevention programs to different populations. Some approaches include empowering youth and staff, creating continuity, and testing strategies to see what works.

As part of the employer-driven model and toolkit developed by the National Institute of Justice, this report provides guidance on using labor market information (LMI) to target high-growth occupations for potential employment opportunities for justice-involved individuals.

In this paper, the authors characterize the effects of neighborhoods on children’s earnings and other outcomes in adulthood by studying more than five million families who move across counties in the United States. The analysis includes quasi-experimental evidence that neighborhoods affect intergenerational mobility through childhood exposure effects.

This blog post discusses the importance of financial literacy and empowerment within the Latino community. One example of a recent initiative is the ACF Region X partnership with Catholic Charities in Portland, Oregon to present a Spanish-language training called “Your Money, Your Goals.” This new financial empowerment toolkit for social service workers who serve the Latino community was created to train front-line staff on how to talk about personal finances with their clients. The resources are available in both English and Spanish.

The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment provided housing vouchers to randomly selected families living in high-poverty housing projects. The vouchers allowed families to move to lower-poverty neighborhoods. Using administrative data from tax returns, the authors of this report present new evidence on the impacts of MTO on children’s long-term outcomes. They find that moving to a lower-poverty neighborhood significantly improves college attendance rates and earnings for children who were younger than 13 years of age at the time of moving. Children also live in better neighborhoods as adults and are less likely to become single parents.

This blog post from the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education provides information about the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and invites comments on the Notices of Proposed Rulemaking. WIOA aims to increase access to and opportunities for employment, education, training, and support services, particularly for individuals with the greatest barriers to employment. WIOA marks the most significant change to the Federal adult education, vocational rehabilitation, and workforce development systems in more than a decade.

In the May 2015 issue of the Office of Child Support Enforcement’s Child Support Report, practitioners can learn about different strategies for best serving their clients. Topics include an introduction to two-generation approaches, modifying child support orders for incarcerated parents, and grantee success stories.

The belief that those who work hard can achieve success has made Americans more tolerant of inequality than citizens in other advanced nations. However, to succeed, Americans need the opportunity to get ahead. In a report from the Brookings Institution and the Economic Mobility Project, Brookings Scholars Julia Isaacs, Ron Haskins, and Isabel Sawhill summarize research and present new evidence regarding the extent of intergenerational economic mobility in the U.S. and the factors that impact it.

In this report from Ascend at the Aspen Institute, the authors outline the emerging case for two-generation approaches to moving parents and families toward economic security. The report outlines key trends and data that are prompting the need for this approach. Data suggests that more than one in five U.S. children live in poverty, a connection exists between maternal education and child outcomes, and women and children in single-mother families have disproportionately high rates of poverty. Ascend identified three components in its equation for two-generation approaches: education + economic supports + social capital; a combination of these three components can lead to successful two-generation policies.