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The information in this report is critical to discussions about effective public policy responses needed to break the cycle of homelessness. As such, it provides an important baseline and foundation for future assessments of the nature and extent of homelessness. It also provides a valuable overview that will improve our understanding of the characteristics of homeless people who use services, the nature of homelessness, and how best to address it.

This report examines the Employment Training Administration's (ETA's) process for disseminating research and evaluation reports to learn how these reports are used by job administrators and state employment security agencies. The study used telephone discussions to obtain samples that varied in several ways: different Department of Labor regions, unemployment rate, population density, and racial and ethnic composition. Agencies were asked how they obtained ETA reports. They were also asked to rate the reports and to discuss how they were used in policy and program design processes. This study presents findings from those discussions and concludes with a series of recommendations

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