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COVID-19 and Economic Opportunity: Unequal

COVID-19 and Economic Opportunity: Unequal Effects on Economic Need and Program Response

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented economic and social impact on Americans, with particularly harsh effects on people in certain race and ethnic groups.
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COVID-19 and Economic Opportunity

COVID-19 and Economic Opportunity

The COVID-19 pandemic caused an unprecedented economic crisis with inequitable effects.
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COVID-19 and Economic Opportunity: Inequities in

COVID-19 and Economic Opportunity: Inequities in the Employment Crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic caused an unprecedented economic crisis with inequitable effects. Overall employment figures mask the disparate impacts on some communities of color, women, and low-wage workers. These groups were more likely to lose jobs, reduce hours worked, or withdraw from the labor market.
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Lessons Learned from Virtual Human Services

Lessons Learned from Virtual Human Services during COVID-19

Interviews with program administrators and frontline workers across a range of human services programs early in the COVID-19 pandemic provided key takeaways to help promote effective, accessible, and equitable virtual service delivery.
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Easy or Hard? Delivering Different Types of Human

Easy or Hard? Delivering Different Types of Human Services Virtually

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many human services programs rapidly shifted their service delivery from primarily or exclusively in person to mostly or entirely virtual (via phone, video call, text, email, etc.) with varying degrees of perceived success.
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Choosing Platforms for Virtual Human Services

Choosing Platforms for Virtual Human Services Delivery

Interviews with program administrators and frontline workers across a range of human services programs early in the COVID-19 pandemic provided great insight into the tradeoffs and relative advantages of choosing virtual platforms to administer services from.
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Virtual Human Services for Different Populations

Virtual Human Services for Different Populations

Interviews with program administrators and frontline workers across a range of human services programs early in the COVID-19 pandemic offered rich information about how well virtual service delivery worked for different types of participants.
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Virtual Human Service Delivery: Scan of

Virtual Human Service Delivery: Scan of Implementation and Lessons Learned

The COVID-19 pandemic largely forced human services programs to shift from in-person to virtual service delivery, making this a growing and emerging field.
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Housing Instability for Noncustodial Parents:

Housing Instability for Noncustodial Parents: Policy Considerations

Many parents owing child support may struggle with housing instability, though little research has documented the extent of this phenomenon.
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Supporting Employment among Lower-Income Mothers

Supporting Employment among Lower-Income Mothers: Paid Family Leave and Child Care Arrangements

This is the third ASPE brief about a qualitative study examining lower-income mothers’ attachment to work around the time of childbirth and the role of state paid family leave (PFL) programs in supporting their return to employment. This brief focuses on the role of PFL in facilitating child care arrangements of a sample of mothers. Highlights a
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HHS COVID-19 Guidance and Information for Human

HHS COVID-19 Guidance and Information for Human Services Programs - HHS

Home Department of Health and Human Services Interagency organizations Click on the links to jump to the each office’s content, summarized in the parentheses next to the link.
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HHS COVID-19 Guidance and Information for Human

HHS COVID-19 Guidance and Information for Human Services Programs - Interagency organizations

Home Department of Health and Human Services Interagency organizations As a member of the following interagency organizations related to human services, HHS would also like to make stakeholders aware of these additional websites with COVID-19 resources. Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs
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HHS COVID-19 Guidance and Information for Human

HHS COVID-19 Guidance and Information for Human Services Programs

This site provides key COVID-19-related guidance and information from HHS for human services program providers and stakeholders, particularly state and local government agencies and faith and community-based organizations.
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The Child Support Performance and Incentive Act

The Child Support Performance and Incentive Act at 20: Examining Trends in State Performance

Despite broad agreement that the child support program has performed well since the passage of the Child Support Performance and Incentive Act (CSPIA) in 1998, questions remain over whether the current measures will continue to drive better performance on outcomes that reflect the child support program’s core mission. To shed light on this issue
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Disconnected Low-Income Men

Disconnected Low-Income Men

A large number of U.S. men of prime working age are neither gainfully employed nor pursuing education or other training, suggesting a potentially significant disconnection from mainstream economic and social life. The Urban Institute, funded by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human S
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Summary of an Urban Ethnographers’ Symposium on

Summary of an Urban Ethnographers’ Symposium on Low-Income Men

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Approaches to Low-Income Energy Assistance

Approaches to Low-Income Energy Assistance Funding in Selected States

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The Early Achievement and Development Gap

The Early Achievement and Development Gap

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Work Histories and Employment Outcomes of Single

Work Histories and Employment Outcomes of Single Mothers

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Who are Low-Wage Workers?

Who are Low-Wage Workers?

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