This executive summary provides an overview of the Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness review process, a summary of the review results, and a link to more detailed information. Overall, the review identified impact studies with high or moderate ratings for seven home visiting models: Early...

Notes that the mix of families remaining on cash assistance has changed, with child-only cases—in which only children are receiving assistance—becoming a growing portion of New Jersey’s welfare caseload. These cases grew from 17 percent of the state’s caseload in 1995 to 33...

Personal Reemployment Accounts (PRAs) provide additional assistance and incentives to unemployed workers who are likely to exhaust their unemployment insurance by offering maximum flexibility in seeking the services that will best help them prepare for and find a new job. Drawing on a variety of...

The Medicare Contractor Provider Satisfaction Survey elicits information from a sample of hospitals, physicians, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, clinical laboratories, and other providers and suppliers. Medicare contractors perform a variety of services for providers including...

Shows that welfare reform increased employment and earnings during the first three and a half years, and that the employment increase occurred because of reform policies allowing people to work while receiving cash assistance. However, there is no evidence that reforms reduced participation in...

This interim report from Mathematica's longitudinal study presents 18 months of follow-up data on families whose cases closed in early 1998 because of a time limit. Notes that nearly all parents worked at some point during the follow-up period, and most worked for more than half of it. Wages...