The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) is the nation’s largest source of training and employment services. To provide greater local and state flexibility and responsiveness in administering the program, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) allows states to apply for waivers from federal regulations....

This guide supplements "Reporting Person-Level Separate CHIP Data on MSIS: A Guide for States." It provides detailed technical advice on how to map separate Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrollment and claims data from source systems into the Medicaid Statistical Information System...

To explore the question of what constitutes quality in a health care encounter from a patient’s perspective, Mathematica conducted focus groups with African Americans, Latinos, Asian Indians, and whites. Participants were asked to define quality in the context of a visit to a primary care...

This article in the Bernard van Leer Foundation's international journal proposes a framework for conceptualizing and measuring the quality of early childhood programs in global contexts and makes recommendations for how policymakers, practitioners, and researchers can work together to improve...

Primary care providers often miss opportunities to address child mental health problems but research has not clarified specific mechanisms for intervention. This article, based on 800 primary care visits to 54 providers in 13 diverse health clinics, examines factors associated with the...

This research brief prepared by First 5 LA provides a snapshot of the children and families participating in the LAUP center-based preschool programs, with information about their ethnicity, primary language, household income, children’s literacy and math skills, family composition, and...

PRAs are a new strategy to help recipients of unemployment insurance build job skills and find work. PRAs combine individually managed accounts and bonuses of up to $3,000 for reemployment, to give unemployed workers flexibility in devising their own reemployment plan. This interim report...

For the fourth straight year, Medicare beneficiaries have fewer options under Medicare+Choice, as plans continue to withdraw, increase premiums, or reduce benefits. As markets become more unstable, beneficiaries’ distrust of the program and concern over its viability are also increasing.

In 1996, welfare reform legislation imposed a 60-month lifetime limit on TANF benefits. The authors use four waves of data from the Women’s Employment Study to determine which personal characteristics are associated with accumulating months on TANF at low (less than 20 months of receipt),...

Low-income students and students whose parents have not attended college typically are less likely than middle- and upper-income students to complete high school and attend college, and are thus less likely to reap the benefits of attending college. In 1965, Congress established the Talent...