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Providing Health Benefits and Work-Related Services to Social Security Disability Insurance Beneficiaries
Six-Month Results from the Accelerated Benefits Demonstration
Policy Brief
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2010. David Wittenburg, Anne Warren, Deborah Peikes, and Stephen Freedman.
This policy brief offers early findings from a demonstration testing whether earlier access to health care and related services for new Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) beneficiaries who lack health care coverage would lead to improved outcomes. So far, the intervention has increased the use of health care services and reduced the reported unmet health care needs of the project participants.
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Sustained Earnings Gains for Residents in a Public Housing Jobs Program
Seven-Year Findings from the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
Policy Brief
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2010. James Riccio.
An extended analysis of Jobs-Plus, an ambitious employment program inside some of the nation’s poorest inner-city public housing developments, finds substantial effects on residents’ earnings a full three years after the program ended.
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Helping Low-Wage Workers Access Work Supports
Lessons for Practitioners
Policy Brief
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2009. Kay Sherwood.
This 12-page brief distills practical implementation lessons from four programs that help low-wage workers access and retain child care subsidies, public health insurance, the Earned Income Tax Credit, food stamps, and other related government benefits.
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Understanding Reading First
What We Know, What We Don’t, and What’s Next
Policy Brief
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2009. Corinne Herlihy, James Kemple, Howard Bloom, Pei Zhu, and Gordon Berlin.
Studies of Reading First released in 2008 found no overall effect on student reading comprehension, and the program was eliminated in 2009. However, the research findings were more nuanced than was widely reported, and they offer lessons for policymakers making critical choices today about how the federal government can best support the teaching of reading to young children.
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Health Benefits for the Uninsured
Design and Early Implementation of the Accelerated Benefits Demonstration
Policy Brief
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2008. David Whittenburg, Peter Baird, Lisa Schwartz, and David Butler.
Many Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) beneficiaries have serious and immediate health care needs, but, under current law, most are not eligible for Medicare until 24 months after they start receiving cash benefits. This policy brief describes a new project that is testing whether providing earlier access to health benefits, as well as other services, for new SSDI beneficiaries who have no other health insurance improves employment and health outcomes.
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Preparing High School Students for Successful Transitions to Postsecondary Education and Employment
Policy Brief
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National High School Center.
2008. Michael Bangser.
This issue brief, published by the National High School Center, highlights lessons from selected policies and programs designed to improve students’ preparation for life after high school.
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Striking the Balance
Career Academies Combine Academic Rigor and Workplace Relevance
Policy Brief
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National High School Center.
2008. Thomas J. Smith.
This “snapshot,” published by the National High School Center, takes a close look at implementation of the Career Academy model in one high school in Oakland, California.
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Evaluating the Impact of Interventions That Promote Successful Transitions from High School
Policy Brief
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National High School Center.
2008. Michael Bangser.
This research brief, published by the National High School Center, examines the challenges and opportunities presented in evaluating whether an intervention achieves defined goals of increasing students’ educational attainment, employment, and earnings after high school.
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State- and District-Level Support for Successful Transitions into High School
Policy Brief
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National High School Center.
2007. Corinne Herlihy.
This policy brief, published by the National High School Center, focuses on five key challenges that states, districts, and schools should address to support a successful transition into high school.
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Toward Ensuring a Successful Transition into High School
Policy Brief
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National High School Center.
2007. Corinne Herlihy.
This issue brief, published by the National High School Center, suggests that transitions into high school can be eased when both structural and specialized curricula reforms are in place.
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Managing the Transition to High School in a Comprehensive Urban High School
Policy Brief
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National High School Center.
2007. Thomas J. Smith.
This “snapshot,” published by the National High School Center, explains how Thomas A. Edison High School in Philadelphia implemented a Ninth-Grade Success Academy.
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Emerging Evidence on Improving High School Student Achievement and Graduation Rates
The Effects of Four Popular Improvement Programs
Policy Brief
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National High School Center.
2006. Corinne M. Herlihy and Janet Quint.
This research brief, published by the National High School Center, draws on findings from four studies by MDRC that shed light on both the nature of the problems found in low-performing high schools and on the effectiveness of promising interventions that attempt to address those problems.
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Welfare Reform, Work, and Child Care
The Role of Informal Care in the Lives of Low-Income Women and Children
Policy Brief
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2003. Virginia W. Knox, Andrew S. London, Ellen K. Scott with Susan Blank.
Drawing on ethnographic interviews, this policy brief describes the patchwork child care arrangements made by low-income parents and discusses implications for policies that would promote the dual objectives of child well-being and parental employment.
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Making Child Care Choices
How Welfare and Work Policies Influence Parents' Decisions
Policy Brief
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2002. Lisa A. Gennetian, Aletha C. Huston, Danielle A. Crosby, Young Eun Chang, Edward D. Lowe, Thomas S. Weisner.
Congressional deliberations on the future of welfare reform have reopened a debate about whether current child care assistance programs adequately support employment among low-income working parents while also fostering their children's development. Issues at the forefront of this debate are explored in this timely new policy brief.
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The Role of Education and Training in Welfare Reform
Policy Brief
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The Brookings Institution.
2002. Judith M. Gueron, Gayle Hamilton.
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Making Work Pay for Public Housing Residents
Learning from the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
Policy Brief
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2002. James A. Riccio, Steven Bliss.
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Welfare Policies Matter for Children and Youth
Lessons for TANF Reauthorization
Policy Brief
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2002. Pamela Morris, Virginia Knox, Lisa A. Gennetian.
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Sanctions and Welfare Reform
Policy Brief
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The Brookings Institution.
2002. Dan Bloom, Don Winstead.
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Promoting Employment in Public Housing Communities
Learning from the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
Policy Brief
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2001. James A. Riccio, Steven Bliss.
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The 30-Year Tug-of-War
Can Reform Resolve Welfare Policy's Thorniest Conundrum?
Policy Brief
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The Brookings Institution.
2001. Gordon Berlin.
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Welfare, Housing, and Employment
Learning from the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
Policy Brief
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2001.
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