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Explore whether and to what extent the choice of an employment data source matters in studies like National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies (NEWWS). 

Discover an overview of racial inequity findings in funding for human services programs in rural counties.

The findings described in this report represent some of the first available evidence on how individuals who previously received welfare fared in the labor market over the long term and on how sequence and cluster analyses can provide a richer picture of their trajectories and program impacts.

Explore this toolkit filled with practical guidance for state and local TANF agencies on how to access, link, and analyze employment data from unemployment insurance (UI) systems for program monitoring, reporting, and evaluation.

The Experiences, Needs, and Voices of Workers in Low-Income Households During COVID-19, and its accompanying brief, Facing Challenges and Showing Resilience: Reflections of Workers from Low-Income Households During COVID-19, summarize the experiences that 41 such workers shared during in-depth interviews.

This brief describes the TANF Data Collaborative (TDC), an innovative approach to increasing data analytics capacity at state Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) agencies.

Explore findings from an analysis of patterns of data use by state TANF agencies and understand what characterizes exemplary data use.

This guide is a resource to assist program evaluation project teams—including funders, sponsors, and evaluation research partners—in assessing the feasibility and potential value of examining long-term outcomes using administrative data.