This brief describes the ASAP program and the students in the study, presents the two-year effects of the program, offers some conclusions, and shares next steps for ASAP and the random assignment evaluation.
CEO's sixth Annual Report details the Center's institutional role in City government as an incubator of solutions to difficult social challenges; assesses CEO's groundbreaking research in developing a more accurate measure of poverty; offers perspectives from City agency partners, providers and participants on CEO's leadership in core issue areas; and provides data for CEO antipoverty interventions since 2006.
Employment Works was launched in 2008 as a pilot initiative to help probationers secure employment, with the goal or promoting their self-sufficiency and reducing their rates of recidivism. The program promotes collaboration between two City agencies by coordinating workforce services between NYC's Department of Small Business Services (SBS) and the Department of Probation (DOP).
This study evaluates CUNY's Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) from a
benefit-cost perspective. ASAP is designed to accelerate degree completion within three years at
community colleges.
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.
The SaveUSA evaluation is measuring the program's effects, or "impacts," through a randomized control trial (RCT) that MDRC is conducting in New York City and Tulsa.
In 2007 the Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO) and the Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) began an ambitious program with two high-impact goals: train low-income New Yorkers for positions starting at $40,000 and $65,000 per year, respectively, and fill the labor market need for Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN) and Registered Nurses (RN) in New York City.
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.
The SaveUSA program combines the tax refund "windfall" - often the largest lump sum payment
received by LMI families - and a valuable incentive to precipitate short-term savings and hopefully
move individuals on a pathway toward longer-term savings and greater financial stability