New Publications
Moving from Welfare to Work
 "Targeted Help for the Hard-To-Employ: Outcomes of Two Philadelphia Welfare-to-Work Programs." Michelle VanNoy and Irma Perez-Johnson, September 2004. Programs to help hard-to-employ Americans move into jobs and become self-sufficient have grown increasingly important in recent years. This report examines the Regional Service Centers and Transitional Work Corporation programs, two different components of the welfare-to-work strategy in Philadelphia. It describes participants' outcomes after program entry and compares outcomes for different groups served with different approaches.
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Healthy Marriage Programs
 ?Healthy Marriage Programs: Learning What Works.? The Future of Children: Marriage and Child Wellbeing , Robin Dion, September 2005. Public and private interest in programs to strengthen the institution of marriage and reduce the number of children growing up without both their parents is growing. The central policy question is whether it is possible to effectively implement programs that can increase the number of children who are raised by both parents in healthy and stable marriages, especially within disadvantaged populations known to be at higher risk for family instability. The author describes such marriage programs; discusses the main challenges and opportunities in implementing them in low-income populations; and explains how researchers, policymakers, and practitioners are beginning to learn whether they work.
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Medicare Privatization and Plan Choice
 "Private Plans in Medicare: Another Look." Marsha Gold, Health Affairs, September/October 2005. Previous efforts by Congress to expand the role of private plans in Medicare have met with limited success. Although the same fate may befall Medicare Advantage, the political environment has changed, and powerful political interests now support Medicare privatization. Only time will tell whether these interests--and the policies they are pursuing--will offset the historical barriers limiting the role of private plans in Medicare.
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Supports for the Working Poor
 "State Food Stamp Participation Rates for the Working Poor in 2002." Laura A. Castner and Allen L. Schirm, August 2005. The Food Stamp Program provides critical support for individuals moving from public assistance to employment, and states have increased flexibility to tailor their eligibility rules to meet the needs of those who are working but still poor. Yet, many people who have jobs and are eligible do not participate. This report builds on other recent studies of participation patterns by examining how participation rates for the working poor vary across states.
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On the Move: Staff News and Changes
 Senior fellow and associate director of research Mark Dynarski has been appointed to the National Academy of Sciences committee charged with evaluating the effects of national teacher certification. The Committee on Evaluation of Teacher Certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) was created in response to a congressional mandate for an independent evaluation of the impact of teacher certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards using an evaluation framework that can be applied to other approaches for advanced teacher certification. Click here to read more.
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