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Publications
Meeting the Needs of Children with Disabilities (Book Module) Author(s): Laudan Y. Aron, Pamela J. Loprest Seldom do the needs of children with disabilities divide neatly along program lines. Instead, children and their families navigate a large, complex, and fragmented array of programs with inconsistent eligibility standards, application procedures, and program goals. "Meeting the Needs of Children with Disabilities" examines these programs, focusing on the three largest—special education, Medicaid, and Supplemental Security Income—and suggests ways to unify them into one system that will provide continuous care and support. Efforts at early intervention and prevention and difficulties caused by programs' funding structures are given particular attention.
In Pursuit of Assistance, Children with Disabilities Face Complex, Fragmented Service System (Press Release) Author(s): The Urban Institute Seldom do the needs of children with disabilities divide neatly along program lines. Instead, children and their families navigate a large, complex, and fragmented array of programs with inconsistent eligibility standards, application procedures, and program goals. "Meeting the Needs of Children with Disabilities" examines these programs, focusing on the three largest—special education, Medicaid, and Supplemental Security Income—and suggests ways to unify them into one system that will provide continuous care and support. Efforts at early intervention and prevention and difficulties caused by programs' funding structures are given particular attention.
Employment and That Magical Year, 2008 (Series/The Government We Deserve) Author(s): C. Eugene Steuerle Everyone knows that 2008 promises to be a bellwether year, rife with dramatic changes already glimpsed. Some harbingers of change are obvious. A new president will be elected—though campaigns hide as much as reveal what that president will choose or be forced to do. The subprime mortgage market also portends dramatic changes in the financial markets in 2008 and beyond. But perhaps the biggest change of all is a sleeper so far—the first year of a scheduled drop-off in employment growth that will last for some 30 years running. If this decline is left unchecked, the net impact on employment will be far greater and longer lasting than the temporary employment dip during the Great Depression.
Better Workers for Better Jobs (Policy Briefs) Author(s): Harry Holzer Low-wage workers in the United States are falling further and further behind their higher-earning counterparts. This brief examines a discussion paper for The Hamilton Project, proposing a new federal funding stream to identify, expand, and replicate the most successful state and local worker advancement initiatives. Under the proposed Worker Advancement Grants for Employment in States (WAGES ) program, the federal government would offer up to $5 billion annually in matching funds for increases in state, local, and private expenditures on worker advancement initiatives.
Better Workers for Better Jobs (Discussion Papers) Author(s): Harry Holzer This paper proposes a new federal funding stream to identify, expand, and replicate the most successful state and local initiatives designed to spur the advancement of low-wage workers in the United States. In the Worker Advancement Grants for Employment in States (WAGES) program, the federal government would offer up to $5 billion annually in matching funds for increases in state, local, and private expenditures on worker advancement initiatives. To gain funding, states would have to develop local advancement "systems", partnerships would be developed between local training providers and financial supports for the working poor—including child care, transportation, and stipends for working students—would have to be funded. Initially, the WAGES program would require states to compete for federal grants; states would have an incentive to innovate and use information from other initiatives. The federal government would provide substantial technical assistance and oversight.
Paying the Price: The Impact of Immigration Raids on America's Children (Discussion Papers) Author(s): Randolph Capps, Rosa Maria Castaneda, Ajay Chaudry, Robert Santos Over the past year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has intensified immigration enforcement activities by conducting several large-scale worksite raids across the country. From an in-depth study of three communities—Greeley, CO, Grand Island, NE and New Bedford, MA—this report details the impact of these worksite raids on the well-being of children. The report provides detailed recommendations to a variety of stakeholders to help mitigate the harmful effects of worksite raids on children.
Partners for Fragile Families Demonstration Projects (Research Report) Author(s): Karin Martinson, Demetra Smith Nightingale, Pamela A. Holcomb, Burt S. Barnow, John Trutko The Partnership for Fragile Families Demonstration projects, operating in 13 sites across the country, provided a range of services aimed at increasing the capacity of young, economically disadvantaged fathers in becoming financial and emotional resources to their children and sought to reduce poverty and welfare dependence. As part of a multi-component evaluation, this report examines how participants fared in two key areas: (1) employment rates and earnings levels and (2) the establishment of child support orders and the payment of child support.
Racial Disparities and the New Federalism (Discussion Papers) Author(s): Margery Austin Turner, Marla McDaniel The paper explores how shifts in both social welfare policies and economic conditions beginning in the mid-1990s altered the relative well-being of blacks— compared to whites—between 1997 and 2002. It uses the National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) to assess how the relative well-being of black families improved or disparities persisted. The findings suggest that some of the disparities between whites and blacks narrowed between 1997 and 2002, especially among people with low incomes. But gaps in income, child school outcomes, employment, assets, and welfare and other income supports, remained essentially unchanged over the period.
Lecture Series Honoring Paul Offner Launched by University of Wisconsin and Urban Institute (Press Release) Author(s): The Urban Institute Paul Offner’s legacy of applying good scholarship to public policy solutions, especially for society’s disadvantaged, will be celebrated with a lecture series sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs in partnership with the Washington, D.C.-based Urban Institute.
Temporary Help Agencies and the Advancement Prospects of Low Earners (Occasional Paper) Author(s): Fredrik Andersson, Harry Holzer, Julia Lane In this paper we use a very large matched database on firms and employees to analyze the use of temporary agencies by low earners and its impact on their employment outcomes. Our results show that, while temp workers have lower earnings than others while working at these agencies, their subsequent earnings are often higher—but only if they manage to gain stable work with other employers. Furthermore, the positive effects seem mostly to occur because those working for temp agencies subsequently gain access to higher-wage firms, and they persist over time.
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