Community colleges now serve over one-third of our nation’s post-secondary students each year. Because they have open admissions and are relatively low cost, they enroll larger percentages of low-income students than four-year institutions. Unfortunately, as enrollment in these colleges has...

Family Rewards was an innovative approach to poverty reduction in the United States that was modelled on the conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs common in lower- and middle-income countries. The program offered cash assistance to poor families to reduce immediate hardship, provided they met...

Over the past two decades, federal and state policymakers have dramatically reshaped the nation's system of cash welfare assistance for low-income families. During this period, there has been considerable variation from state to state in approaches to welfare reform, which are often collectively...

Both data obtained from surveys and data maintained by government units for administrating programs have been used to track the outcomes of social programs (e.g., earnings, educational achievement, and government benefit receipt) and, hence, to estimate their impacts. Sometimes both have been...