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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) faced the challenge of streamlining access to information, tools, and resources for farmers, ranchers, and landowners.

This study of Health Profession Opportunity Grants 2.0 documents how non-tribal grantees implemented programs and participant characteristics and engagement.

Three nonexperimental approaches returned poor estimates of the impact of emergency assistance on educational progress for job trainees.

Our analysis of HPOG subgroups defined by program experiences found weak evidence that long-term credentials led to meaningfully larger earnings impacts.

Abt’s analysis of career trajectories showed that Year Up increased transitions from training to higher-wage jobs but had no effect on persistent disconnection.

Only 1 of 10 programs evaluated—9 in the Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education project plus the HPOG 1.0 Program--increased earnings after six years.

Employers experienced positive returns on their investments in registered apprenticeships.

A study of an approach to recruit employers to register apprenticeship programs detected a statistically significant impact on adoption of such programs.

Two small tests of a college-based version of the Year Up program found a general need for improvements and identified a strategy that may address this need.

Julie Strawn’s brief in the College Completion Strategy Guide provides evidence-based recommendations to improve college completion & increase economic mobility.