The NYC Center for Economic Opportunity's annual report on poverty, The CEO Poverty Measure, 2005 - 2013 is now available. As the economy continued to emerge from recession in 2013, citywide poverty remained statistically unchanged from the previous year.
This report describes the results of a qualitative evaluation of Teen ACTION's effectiveness in meeting its goals. The research team interviewed teens, program administrators, and staff at seven sites (see box), and conducted focus groups with participants, as well as one-on-one interviews with four teens at each site.
Family Rewards 2.0 was launched in July 2011 in the Bronx, New York and Memphis, Tennessee. While still offering rewards in the areas of children's education, family health, and parents' work, Family Rewards 2.0 has fewer rewards in each domain, offers the education rewards only to high school students, makes the rewards more timely by paying them each month, and includes family guidance.
The purpose of the evaluation
was to examine the youth experience in the mentoring program and assess ways in which the
program helps participating youth develop skills that will enhance their social-emotional wellbeing
and educational and career outcomes.
SaveUSA offers eligible participants a 50 percent match if they deposit a portion of their tax refund into a savings account and maintain the initial deposit for approximately one year.
The study seeks to recruit a sample that reflects the diversity of low-wage workers,
specifically targeting groups that face the most challenges, including noncustodial
parents, formerly incarcerated people, and individuals with little or no earnings.
Each year the Center for Economic Opportunity publishes its annual Poverty Measure report. Unlike the U.S. measure, the NYCgov measure takes into account benefit programs and higher housing costs to get a better portrait of poverty in New York City.
This report presents very promising early findings from a random assignment study of ASAP that is taking place at three CUNY community colleges: Borough of Manhattan Com-munity College (BMCC), Kingsborough Community College (KCC), and LaGuardia Commu-nity College (LGCC).
The Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO) focuses on young adults as a key target population, and offers a number of programs intended to either reinforce their educational goals and/or provide them with some work experience in order to increase their chances of obtaining permanent employment.
The CEO programs studied for this report were part of the first wave of programs funded by CEO beginning in FY07. With the exception of the CCTC, which as a tax-credit is not part of the City's expense budget, the programs continued to be funded by CEO through FY10.