New York's Strengthening Families Through Stronger Fathers Initiative aimed at boosting the job prospects and child support payments of low-income noncustodial parents, most of whom are fathers. Our multi-year evaluation found that the programs helped fathers find work, raise their earnings, and pay more child support. Read more about the evaluation, and the nationally-cited research by child support expert Elaine Sorensen.
More than 1.4 million nonprofit organizations were registered with the Internal Revenue Service in 2009, 19% above 1999. How much do you know about the nonprofit sector? Newly released Nonprofit Sector in Brief: Public Charities, Giving, and Volunteering, 2011 reveals all. Learn more
The Welfare Rules Database is the only resource of its kind for information on TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) policies in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Full data from 2010 has just been released, enabling public users to query rules that span 30 TANF policy areas. In addition, the latest Welfare Rules Databook taps the database to provide tables with key TANF policies and longitudinal data from 1996 to 2010. Learn more
As Congress's Super Committee readies its deficit-cutting recommendations, UI experts look hard at who America's children are, what they get from government, and what happens if we underinvest in them. Lisa Dubay, Olivia Golden, Robert Reischauer, Kim Rueben, Margaret Simms, and Eugene Steuerle examine childhood poverty's legacy, entitlement programs, spending and cost-sharing, and the payoff of investing in children. Read more
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