Supporting Work Project: Resources and Information

About the project | Recommendations | Description of pilot programs | Resources and information

Overview of Employer Engagement in Work Supports

• Private Employers and Public Benefits by Geri Scott, Jobs for the Future, 2004


• Work Supports and Low-Wage Workers: The Promise of Employer Involvement, The Finance Project, 2005


• Getting Connected: Employer Engagement in Work Supports by Abbey Frank, Mark Greenberg and Robert Zdenek,
  CLASP, 2006

Overview of Work Supports, Participation Rates & Outcomes

• Trends in Work Supports for Low-Income Families with Children by Sheila Zedlewski and Seth Zimmerman, Urban Institute, June 2007


• Updating and Outsourcing Enrollment Public Benefits: The Texas Experience by Celia Hagert, Center for Public Policy Priorities, November 13, 2006


• Is There a System Supporting Low-Income Working Families? by Sheila Zedlewski et, al., Urban Institute, February 2006

EITC & Other Income Supplements

• The Earned Income Tax Credit at Age 30: What We Know by Steve Holt, The Brookings Institution, February 2006


• The New Safety Net: How the Tax Code Helped Low-Income Working Families During the Early 2000s by Alan Berube, The Brookings Institution, February 2006


• The Earned Income Tax Credit: Boosting Employment, Aiding the Working Poor by Robert Greenstein, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, August 2005


• Does Making Work Pay Still Pay? by Charles Michalopoulos, MDRC, August 2005


• Sustained Employment and Earnings Growth: New Experimental Evidence on Financial Work Incentives and Pre-Employment Services by Charles Michalopoulos, MDRC, 2001

Child Care

• Child Care Assistance Helps Families Work: A Review of the Effects of Subsidy Receipt on Employment by Hannah Matthews, Center for Law and Social Policy, April 2006


• Childcare Subsidies and the Transition from Welfare to Work by Sandra Danziger et al., National Poverty Center Working Paper Series, University of Michigan, November 2003


• Staying Employed after Welfare: Work Supports and Job Quality Vital to Employment Tenure and Wage Growth by Heather Boushey, Economic Policy Institute, June 2002

Child Care, Medicaid & Health Insurance

• Work Supports, Job Retention and Job Mobility Among Low-Income Mothers by Sunhwa Lee, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, November 2004


• Staying Employed: Trends in Medicaid, Child Care, and Head Start in Ohio by Jon Honeck, Policy Matters Ohio and Vicky Lovell, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, November 2004

Food Stamps and Medicaid

• Who Returns to Welfare by Pamela Loprest, Urban Institute, September 2002

The Workforce

• Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates - BLS publishes updates twice a year (in May and November) on hourly wages nationally, by state and by metropolitan area. The wage estimates are overall and by occupation.


• Occupational Employment Projections to 2014 by Daniel E. Hecker, November 2005


• What Do We Know About Entry-Level, Hourly Employees? Families and Work Institute, November 2006


• How Can Employers Increase the Productivity and Retention of Entry-Level, Hourly Employees? Families and Work Institute, November 2006


• What Workplace Flexibility is Available to Entry-Level, Hourly Employees? Families and Work Institute, November 2006

Other Resources

MDRC (www.mdrc.org) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan education and social policy research organization dedicated to learning what works to improve programs and policies that affect the poor. MDRC designs and studies new approaches to the problems confronting public education; low-income children, families and communities; and low-wage workers and people with serious barriers to employment.

Corporate Voices for Working Families (www.corporatevoices.org) developed an Employer Toolkit for educating employees about multiple federal programs including Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), Child Tax Credit, State Children’s Health Insurance (SCHIP), Food Stamps and the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).