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Procedural Justice Principles in the Midst of a Major Disruption
The Procedural Justice-Informed Alternatives to Contempt (PJAC) demonstration project integrates principles of procedural justice into enforcement practices in six child support agencies across the...
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Advising for Opportunity
As the wages of high school graduates plummet, postsecondary education and training has become critical to obtaining a living-wage job. Obtaining an associate’s degree or higher has the greatest...
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Civil Contempt of Court for Child Support Noncompliance at the PJAC...
Child support programs seek to improve children’s well-being by emphasizing both parents’ roles in providing for them. Some families receive child support from noncustodial parents regularly. For other...
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Evaluation of the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe/Job ChalleNGe Program
Many youth in America are not on track for labor market success. One factor that increases the risk of poor labor market outcomes among these youth is dropping out of school. Youth who drop out of...
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California State University’s Proposed Quantitative Reasoning Admissions...
Staff Titles: Project DirectorThe MDRC study team will collect, process, and analyze quantitative and qualitative data during 2021 with a planned publication in early 2022. The study team will work to...
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What Happens After the Program Ends?
Some education programs’ early positive effects disappear over time. Other programs have unanticipated positive long-term effects. Foundations warn of the dangers of putting too much weight on...
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Don’t Forget the Class of 2020!
Vaccination rates are increasing, businesses and schools are starting to reopen, and the American Rescue Plan is distributing almost $2 trillion in federal funds to hard-hit states, localities,...
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Reducing Child Support Debt in the Procedural Justice-Informed Alternatives...
The Procedural Justice-Informed Alternatives to Contempt (PJAC) demonstration project integrates principles of procedural justice into enforcement practices in six child support agencies across the...
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Strengthening Research Through Participatory Methods
Participatory research—the inclusion in research of members of a group being studied—is based on the idea that advanced degrees are not a requirement for conducting research, and that the people...
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Work, Engagement, and Well-Being at the Midpoint
In 2012, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development commissioned a national random assignment evaluation of the Family-Self Sufficiency (FSS) program and its impacts on labor market and other...
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Integrating Procedural Justice Principles into Child Support Case Management
The Procedural Justice-Informed Alternatives to Contempt (PJAC) demonstration project integrates principles of procedural justice into enforcement practices in six child support agencies across the...
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Supporting College Students During the Pandemic
Open-access colleges are an important pathway to economic mobility for millions of Americans. But graduation rates at these colleges are low—for example, only 36 percent of first-time, full-time...
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Procedural Justice in Child Support Enforcement
The Procedural Justice-Informed Alternatives to Contempt (PJAC) demonstration project integrated principles of procedural justice into enforcement practices in six child support agencies across the...
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Procedural Justice in the Child Support Process
The Procedural Justice-Informed Alternatives to Contempt (PJAC) demonstration project, which began in 2016, integrates principles of procedural justice into enforcement practices in six child support...
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Tools for Postsecondary Schools (TfPS)
Staff Titles: Project DirectorTools for Postsecondary Schools has two main goals: (1) to ensure that the strongest evidence about improving student success is incorporated into higher education policy...
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Setting Up SUCCESS
MDRC’s Scaling Up College Completion Efforts for Student Success (SUCCESS) seeks to improve graduation rates for traditionally underserved students at two- and four-year colleges. Since 2019, MDRC has...
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