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Evaluating JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Challenge and PRO Neighborhoods Competition
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Through the AdvancingCities Challenge and PRO Neighborhoods Competitions, JPMorgan Chase leverages a spectrum of solutions. Whether focused on neighborhood-level interventions or city-wide systems change, these initiatives encourage applicants to embody…
Developing LocalHousingSolutions.org
Project
Households around the U.S. face growing housing affordability challenges. While there are important roles for the federal and state governments to play in addressing this problem, many of the most critical policy solutions can only be adopted at the…
Abt’s Evaluations of Compass Working Capital’s Innovative Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program
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Family Self Sufficiency (FSS) is a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program designed to help housing assistance recipients increase their earnings and build savings to make progress toward economic security. The standard FSS program…
Evaluating HUD’s Community Choice Demonstration
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More than 2.3 million households participate in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Housing Choice Voucher program, and almost a million of these households are comprised of families with children. With these vouchers, families…
Career Pathways: A Strategy to Boost College Completion and Economic Mobility
Publication
Julie Strawn’s brief in the College Completion Strategy Guide provides evidence-based recommendations to improve college completion & increase economic mobility.
Benefits That Last: Long-term Impact and Cost-benefit Findings for Year Up
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Year Up’s training program for young adults produced large, lasting earnings increases and positive financial benefits for society in this experiment.
Valley Initiative for Development and Advancement Six-Year Impact Report
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The Valley Initiative for Development and Advancement increased receipt of college certificates and degrees but did not lead to higher incomes.
Washington State’s Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) Program: Six-Year Impact Report
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Washington State’s Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) program did not produce educational or earnings impacts.
A Meta-Analysis of 46 Career Pathways Impact Evaluations
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This report for the U.S. Department of Labor synthesizes findings from 46 impact evaluations of career pathways and related programs.
Productive Uses of Energy in African Agriculture Could Reduce Poverty
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As conditions for the adoption of productive uses of energy improve in sub-Saharan Africa, this paper makes suggestions to accelerate their adoption.