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The latest findings from the Nuru Burkina Faso 2024 impact evaluation are in! The brief presents early results from the impact evaluation, highlighting measurable gains in the groundnut value chain. Read more about it!

The team working on the Nuru Ghana impact evaluation has released their latest findings! The report provides a foundation for measuring progress in future evaluations, assessing farmer productivity and resilience-building efforts in northeastern Ghana. Read more about it!

The team evaluating Travis County's investments in workforce development has released their latest findings covering participant outcomes and impacts from FY2016-FY2023. Check it out!

RMC researchers evaluating Nuru Nigeria's intervention with farmers across multiple Local Government Areas in NE Nigeria have released their latest findings! This is the first independent impact report measuring increases in agricultural yields and incomes following the 5-year Resilience Study carried out by the Ray Marshall Center in partnership with Nuru Nigeria. Read more about it!

RMC’s Research Associate Cynthia Juniper was invited to speak to College of Southern Nevada DHB Anthropology students about our ESTOY project. Check it out!

See what we've been up to in our latest newsletter! Issue 36, October 2024

RMC’s Research Associate Cynthia Juniper attended the Aspen Institute OYF Fall Convening 2024, a gathering of opportunity youth collaboratives representing urban, rural, and tribal communities across the United States working to build and scale reconnection pathways that achieve better outcomes in education, employment, and overall well-being for opportunity youth. Read more about it!

The team evaluating Nuru Kenya's program in Baringo County has released their latest findings! This baseline report marks the initial data collection phase in Baringo County, serving as a critical pre-intervention reference across various value chains—namely dairy, meat, beekeeping, and shoats (sheep and goats)—in the Baringo North and Tiaty sub-counties. Read more about it!

Researchers evaluating Nuru Ethiopia interventions have released their latest findings! This report samples farmers from two of the NE-supported unions, Hidota (Gamo Zone) and Esipe Dicha (Gofa Zone) with whom NE has supported since 2016 and 2021 respectively. Check it out!

The Ray Marshall Center has entered into a new partnership with the Office of the Attorney General of Texas to review the child support guidelines established by state and federal laws to ensure their adequacy in determining appropriate child support award amounts in divorce cases and other suits affecting parent-child relations (SAPCR). Read more about it!

RMC’s Research Scientist Heath Prince was interviewed for a Science Magazine article on the wage disparity for labor in the Global South. Check it out!

See what we've been up to in our latest newsletter! Check out Issue 35, July 2024!

RMC’s Research Associate Cynthia Juniper presented findings from our Evaluating Services for Texas Opportunity Youth (ESTOY) project at the Texas Network of Youth Services (TNOYS) 41st annual conference held June 4-7, 2024, in Houston, Texas. Check it out!

The team evaluating PATHS for Texas outcomes has released their latest findings! The data presented in this report represent individuals who participated in PATHS for Texas from its start date in 2020 through June of 2024. Check it out!

The team evaluating the City of Austin's investment in workforce development has released their latest findings! The purpose of the evaluation is to identify within the City of Austin funded workforce development training ecosystem, programmatic or strategic elements that impact participant outcomes. Research findings will guide strategic planning for the City’s workforce development efforts. Read more about it!

See what we've been up to in our latest newsletter! Check out Issue 34, May 2024!

RMC researchers evaluating Travis County's investments in workforce development have released their latest findings! This evaluation report presents findings and analyses of programs funded during a seven-year on-going evaluation (FY 2016–FY 2022).

The team evaluating Nuru Burkina Faso's impact during the 2023 agricultural season has released their latest findings! This report examines the results of the season, including the yield potential between farmers and demonstration plots. This report also explores baseline gender evaluations aimed at uncovering gender dynamics at the household level. Read more about it!

RMCss Dr. Heath Prince and Thomas Boswell presented findings from their study titled “Prevention, Resilience, Efficiency, and Protection for workers in industrial agriculture in a changing climate (PREP): Baseline results from a household panel survey of the socioeconomic conditions experienced by agricultural workers in Chichigalpa, Nicaragua” at the Fourth International Workshop on Chronic Kidney Disease sponsored by Consortium for the Epidemic of Nephropathy in Central America and Mexico (CENCAM) and held February 13th-16th in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala. Check it out!

RMC Research Scientist, Dr. Heath Prince, and former RMC Research Associate, Amna Khan (LBJ MPAff, 2012), along with Brandeis University colleague, Dr. Yara Halasa-Rappel, examined post-Arab Spring youth unemployment policies in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Tunisia for the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development in 2017.  Their findings have now been published as a book chapter in the newly released University of Bristol’s Policy Press publication, Emerging Trends in Social Policy from the South: Challenges and Innovations in Emerging Economies (Yi, Kaasch, and Stetter, eds).  Read more about it!

RMC researchers providing technical assistance to support Nuru Nigeria's monitoring and evaluation efforts have released their latest findings! Check it out!

RMC researchers evaluating Nuru Kenya's impact in the dairy sector have released their latest findings! This is the 6th annual report on the dairy program of Nuru Kenya since its inception in 2017.  Read more about it!

The team evaluating Nuru Nigeria's interventions from 2019 to 2023 in northeaster Nigeria has released their latest findings! This endline report shares the outcomes from the 4-year randomized control trial impact evaluation of Nuru Nigeria’s interventions, from 2019 to 2023 in northeastern Nigeria. 

RMC’s Social Science Research Associate Thomas Boswell was part of a trio presenting findings from Nuru International‘s 2022 Nuru Nigeria Resilience Report at the American Evaluation Association‘s Evaluation 2023 conference in Indianapolis October 9-14, 2023.  Boswell joined Nuru’s Ian Schwenke and Dena Bunnel of Kansas State University in the October 14th presentation.  Check it out!

RMC researchers Cynthia Juniper and Thomas Boswell participated in the City of Austin – UT Austin ILA Showcase and Workshop on September 13, 2023.  The event highlighted successful collaborations between the two organizations under a Master Interlocal Agreement approved by Austin City Council in 2020 to streamline agreements between City departments who are looking for UT research expertise.  Check it out!

Dr. Ray Marshall was recently featured on Episode 18 of the podcast series “The Work Goes On: An Oral History of Industrial Relations and Labor Economics” hosted by Princeton University’s Orley Ashenfelter that aired on October 23, 2023.  The podcast, part of the Princeton Industrial Relations Section celebration of 100 years of research and public history, consists of a series of conversations with leading thinkers and practitioners and aims to create an oral history of industrial relations and labor economics.  Check it out!

RMC researchers evaluating PATHS for Texas have released their latest findings! The data presented in this brief represent individuals who participated in PATHS for Texas from its start date in 2020 through April of 2023.  Check it out!

Researchers working on the Belmont Forum Collaborative Research project have released findings from their examination of the socioeconomic outcomes associated with chronic kidney disease not related to well-known risk factors (CKDnt) in four communities in Chichigalpa, Nicaragua that are home to a substantial number of sugarcane workers. Read more about it!

The team evaluating Nuru Ethiopia's cooperative and agricultural impacts has released their latest findings! In 2022, Nuru Ethiopia (NE) offered interventions in cooperative and rural livelihoods programming with 18,194 participant households in Gamo and Gofa Zones of Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR) of Ethiopia.  The intervention activities were punctuated by a shift in approach to supporting larger cooperative unions and cascading services to an increased number of primary cooperatives and farmers.  This report dives into the outcomes achieved by the intervention activities. Read more about it!

The Ray Marshall Center has entered into a partnership with Texas Workforce Commission to implement its duty to establish a self-sufficiency wage for each Texas county.

The Ray Marshall Center has entered into a new partnership with City of Austin to conduct an evaluation of the City’s workforce training investments. Read more about it!

The Ray Marshal Center has entered into a new partnership with ECHO to assist with the AT Home Initiative evaluation. Read more about it!

RMC researchers contributed to an ENBEL (Enhancing Belmont Research Action to support EU policy making on climate change and health) policy brief on co-design in climate change and health research. The brief published by ENBEL provides an overview of each of this round’s grantees, summarizing collaborative activities and lessons learned from Climate, Environment, and Health (CEH) projects.  Read more about it!

RMC Research Associate Cynthia Juniper was interviewed recently by Texas Standard on pandemic-era staffing shortages in the childcare sector.  Check it out!

See what we've been up to in our latest newsletter! Check out Issue 33, September 2022!

RMC's Director Greg Cumpton sat with KXAN for an interview on the growing labor movement and unionization in Central Texas in response to Ascension Seton nurses voting to unionize. Check it out!

The team working on the CareerAdvance® implementation study have released their final report! Read all about it!

RMC welcomes new Social Science Research Associate, David McCoy! He will work on a range of projects with the RMC, including research on education policy and the development of panel data sets that extract insights from individual- and firm-level unemployment insurance data. Read more about David!

The LBJ School’s Dean JR DeShazo recently selected Dr. Greg Cumpton to serve as Co-Director of the Ray Marshall Center along with Dr. Heath Prince.

See what we've been up to in our latest newsletter! Check out Issue 32, April 2022!

RMC’s Director and Research Scientist Dr. Heath Prince co-authored an article outlining interventions to prevent occupational heat stress in laborers during physically demanding work in high environmental temperatures. The article titled “Workplace Intervention for Heat Stress: Essential Elements of Design, Implementation, and Assessment” was published on March 22, 2022, in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJEPH) by MDPI Open Access Journals. Read more about it!

Through a partnership with the Aspen Institute, the RMC will engage in a data-driven longitudinal study following Opportunity Youth (OY) in San Antonio into either the labor market or postsecondary education (or both) between Fall 2021 and Summer 2026 to map out the pathways taken by OY. This study will use UI wage and National Student Clearinghouse data to monitor the progress at the individual level. Read more about the partnership!

Through a partnership with the UP Partnership and the Aspen Institute, the RMC will engage in a data-driven longitudinal study following Opportunity Youth (OY) in San Antonio into either the labor market or postsecondary education (or both) between Fall 2021 and Summer 2026 to map out the pathways taken by OY. This study will begin tracking OY at the point that they exit OY programs. read more about the project!

RMC’s Senior Research Scientist Dr. Chris King co-authored a chapter with Burt Barnow in a new book The Governance of Labour Administration: Reforms, Innovations and Challenges, edited by Jason Heyes and Ludek Rychly of the University of Sheffield Management School.  The book focuses on public administration activities in the field of national labour policy, providing detailed analyses of labour administration reforms, innovations, and challenges in different countries (case studies from Brazil, France, Germany, India, Japan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and the United States are detailed).  Read more about the book!

With the support of JPMorgan Chase, the Ray Marshall Center will study the pathways taken by Opportunity Youth in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. This five-year grant, also known as Evaluating Services for Texas Opportunity Youth (ESTOY), represents one of the largest efforts undertaken in Texas to date to study the systems that serve, and the trajectories taken by, disconnected young adults (between the ages of 18 and 24 who are neither enrolled in school nor working) after participation in a youth-serving program. Read more about the project!

The Ray Marshall Center is pleased to announce support from JPMorgan Chase to study the pathways taken by Opportunity Youth in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. This $750,000, five-year grant represents one of the largest efforts undertaken in Texas to date to study the systems that serve, and the trajectories taken by, disconnected young adults (between the ages of 18 and 24 who are neither enrolled in school nor working) after participation in a youth-serving program. Read more about the project!

The Ray Marshall Center has entered into a partnership with and will provide assistance to Goodwill Industries of Central Texas to develop, plan, and deploy a revised strategic plan for future years. Read more about it!

The Dutch Research Council has published a project summary for Examining Reproductive Health Services of Women, Female Youth, and Female Refugees in Northern Jordan with a Behavioral Economics Lens titled “Behavioural economics-inspired counselling helped to reduce pregnancies in Jordan” dated June 7, 2021.  RMC’s Research Scientist Dr. Heath Prince led the project team in the United States which ran from 2017 to 2020.  Check it out!

LEO is partnering with the Ray Marshall Center (RMC) at The University of Texas at Austin to utilize state administrative data to support this research. LEO and RMC researchers will use the data to demonstrate the impact of these self-sufficiency programs on outcomes such as earnings, employment and public benefit usage. By testing what works to move people to self-sufficiency, LEO and RMC will inform and improve poverty programming across the state and inform policymakers as they make decisions about funding and programming.

The team working on the CareerAdvance® implementation study have released their latest findings! This report focuses on findings through FY2020, with emphasis on the impact of service delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic and more. Check it out!

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The Better Employment and Training Strategies Task Force, or BETS, is a group of more than 40 workforce experts formed in November 2020 by Prof. Stephen Crawford of the George Washington Institute of Public Policy, Stuart Andreason of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and Larry Good of Corporation for a Skilled Workforce to develop recommendations aimed at informing the incoming Biden-Harris administration and the 117th Congress on issues and policy options related to five central workgroups: unemployment insurance, workforce development, job quality, youth employment, and federal jobs initiatives. These five workgroups will provide critically needed input into workforce development policy and programmatic conversations around improving the country’s employment and training system. Read more about the task force!

The team evaluating California Community College Chancellor's Office's Financial Literacy Pilot has released their latest findings! These findings contribute to a growing body of research investigating the use of behaviorally-informed strategies incorporating low-cost technological solutions such as text-based outreach to help students navigate complex decisions and overcome barriers that hinder college enrollment, persistence, and completion. Read more about it!

RMC Senior Research Scientist Dr. Chris King co-authored an op-ed ‘Building Back Better’ Means Focusing on the Labor Force & Systems That Support Recovery with The Better Employment and Training Strategies Task force (BETS) published on January 22, 2021 by RealClear Policy. Read more about it!

RMC researchers evaluating Travis County's investments in workforce development have released their latest findings! This evaluation examines outcomes and impacts for participants exiting the Travis County-funded community-based workforce programs between FY 2016 and FY 2019. Read more about it!

With assistance from the California Workforce Association (CWA), the Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW) and the Ray Marshall Center (RMC) of the University of Texas are partnering to evaluate the effectiveness of American Job Centers of California (AJCC) system using a mixed-methods and multi-part research design. Read more about the project!

American Graduate video explainer: Getting Certified for Construction While in High School

RMC’s Director and Research Scientist Dr. Heath Prince recently wrote an op-ed in the Austin American-Statesmen titled “Worker exploitation in Texas’ throwaway culture” published December 13, 2020. The piece touches on the exploitation of the construction workers, especially during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more about it!

RMC researchers evaluating the Austin Metro Area Master Community Workforce Plan has released their latest findings! This report seeks to determine which relevant services and training the region provided and establish unduplicated records across the workforce system during the baseline and Year One periods to accurately measure the scale of efforts along with the outcomes of participants, including program completion, employment, and earnings. Check it out!

RMC researchers evaluating the progress of the Austin Metro Area Master COmmunity Workforce Plan have released their latest findings! The Year Two report focuses on outcomes for individuals enrolled in and completing programs between October 2018 and the end of September 2019. Read more about it!

The team working on Belmont Forum Collaborative Research project has released findings measuring the return on Ingenio San Antonio’s investment in the Adelante Initiative (Adelante). The project was created in response to new evidence that heavy labor in increasingly hotter temperatures is a primary cause behind the high incidence of kidney disease and the resulting deaths experienced among sugarcane cutters. Check it out!

Researchers working on the Belmont Forum Collaborative Research project have released findings related to the economic impact of Chronic Kidney Disease of non-traditional Etiology (CKDnt) on households in Chichigalpa, Nicaragua.

The Ray Marshall Center has entered into a collaborative partnership with the National Science Foundation, Belmont Forum, and University of Gothenburg, Sweden, to collectively implement the Adelante Initiative, a workplace intervention with focus on adequate water, and rest in shade together with improved ergonomics, designed to prevent CKDu among workers at a sugarcane mill in Nicaragua. Read more about the project!

The Ray Marshall Center will evaluate the variation in program characteristics – including program components, implementation features, local context, and participant traits – to explore which characteristics are associated with Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) program participant’s healthcare profession career pathway outcomes. Read more about the project!

The RMC team working on the CareerAdvance® implementation study have released their latest findings! This report examines the evolution of CareerAdvance® and the implementation of the fourth year of HPOG II services in a five-year grant cycle, including post-HPOG sustainability planning for CareerAdvance®. Read more about the findings!

The Ray Marshall Center will provide research support to the PATHS (Pursuit of Advanced Training in High-Demand Skills) for Texas project in partnership with Workforce Solutions Dallas. The goal of the PATHS project is to implement a statewide retail sector incumbent worker career advancement strategy. Read more about the project!

See what we've been up to in our latest newsletter! Check out Issue 31, October 2019

The Ray Marshall Center will assist the Central Texas Healthcare Partnership (CTHP) by conducting an evaluation of the Upskill ATX Pilot Project. Read more about it!

The Ray Marshall Center is conducting an evaluation of the California Community College Chancellor’s Office’s Financial Literacy Pilot Initiative. Sixteen California community colleges are participating in this pilot. RMC will report on participant outcomes and perform a quasi-experimental evaluation of the program. Read more about the evaluation!

Researchers from the Ray Marshall Center (RMC) will conduct a study of the cost of providing quality child care in the state of Texas, the purpose of which is to provide estimates of how much more additional funding, in terms of daily rates, should be paid to providers who meet quality standards to care for children, relative to how much providers who do not meet such standards are paid. Read more about the project!

The Ray Marshall Center will work with local Independent School Districts to collect and manage data across multiple systems, ensuring data integrity and consistency for regional participants. This work may include direct collection of non-administrative data from students using an on line survey, depending on district preference and capacity to collect such information on-site. Read more about the partnership!

See what we've been up to in our latest newsletter! Check out Issue 30, March 2019!

The Ray Marshall Center will provide research support to the WinDDOWS project, funded by the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation and implemented by the University of Texas at Austin’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. Read more about the project!

The Ray Marshall Center has partnered with Decision Information Resources to evaluate BakerRipley's ASPIRE program, a workforce development program designed to support underemployed workers in the Houston, Texas area to successfully move from low-wage jobs to living-wage, middle-skill jobs that provide financial stability and contribute to the region’s economic growth. Read more about the evaluation!

The team working on the CareerAdvance implementation study have released their latest findings! This report examines the implementation of the third year of HPOG II services in a five-year grant cycle, including post-HPOG sustainability planning for CareerAdvance®. Read more about these findings!

The team evaluating the Austin Metro Area Master Community Workforce Plan have released their latest findings! The report provides an assessment of food and child care workforce support benefits available for families in one Central Texas community: Austin, Texas metro area. Read more about it!

The RMC has entered into a new partnership with the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce and Lumina Foundation to examine why many former college entrants interrupt their education prior to completing their degree, either dropping out completely or later returning to college. Read more about this partnership!

The team evaluating the Austin Metro Area Master Community Workforce Plan (MCWP) has released their latest findings! The MCWP lays out a common agenda and establishes a framework for collaboration to coordinate the efforts of the region’s workforce development organizations and educational institutions. This baseline evaluation report serves as a reference to how the system functioned prior to this effort and provides accurate baseline numbers with which to compare results of ongoing and future regional coordination and collaboration. Check it out!

See what we've been up to in our latest newsletter! Check out Issue 29, September 2018!

Project QUEST provides employment training and services aligned with the skills most in demand by San Antonio, Texas employers. The Ray Marshall Center will be working with the Economic Mobility Corporation, Inc (Mobility) and building around their recent program evaluation of Project QUEST. Read more about the project!

The Ray Marshall Center (RMC) has partnered with Workforce Solutions Capital Area (WFSCA) to evaluate the progress of the Austin Metro Area Master Community Workforce Plan. The objective of the Master Plan is to effectively engage employers, community-based organizations, and educational institutions to more efficiently match employers’ skill needs and successfully prepare economically disadvantaged residents for family-sustaining careers. Read more about the project!

The Ray Marshall Center (RMC) is supporting the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) at the University of Notre Dame in its research by linking data on Padua™ program participants to administrative data on employment, wages, TANF participation, and SNAP participation. Read more about the project!

The Ray Marshall Center entered into an agreement with the San Antonio Education Partnership to conduct an impact analysis to answer four research questions, a description of the study population, data and methodology used, and a review of the existing research that attempts to answer similar questions about the relationship between grant aid and student outcomes. Read more about the research questions!

The team working on the CareerAdvance® implementation study has released their latest findings! This report examines the implementation of CareerAdvance®, particularly focusing on how and why the program changes and adjusts to meet the requirements of HPOG II, while responding to the needs of the participants being served, the local job market, and the partners working together to implement the program. Read more about their findings!

See what we've been up to in our latest newsletter! Check out Issue 28, December 2017!

The Ray Marshall Center entered into an interlocal agreement with the City of Austin for process development, data collection, and analysis of youth-focused programs in science, technology, engineering, math, creative, and entrepreneurship workforce development programs. Read more about it!

RMC researchers make presentation to St. David's Foundation on balancing the supply of and demand for BSN nurses in Central Texas. Check it out!

The Ray Marshall Center (RMC) has partnered with Nuru International to write a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation plan for Nuru’s anticipated programming in Nigeria. Read more about what the plan includes!

The Ray Marshall Center (RMC) will partner with the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) to design, implement, and evaluate interventions that adhere to the Cairo consensus of ensuring women’s reproductive health and sexual rights (RHSR) and the rights of the vulnerable youth and refugee populations in the north while reducing population growth in accordance with the SDGs and Jordan’s needs. Read more about the project!

The Ray Marshall Center (RMC) will partner with TIP Strategies in the creation of an evaluation methodology for the Oregon Talent Council (OTC) that relies on new and innovative ways to measure the impact of talent investment in Oregon, and that can accurately and consistently track outcomes of interest. Read more about this partnership!

The Ray Marshall Center will partner with the Austin Regional Manufacturers Association to conduct a survey of manufacturing employers operating within the Austin-Round Rock Metropolitan Statistical Area in order to learn more about their workforce needs. RMC will work with ARMA to develop a customized survey that would provide new insights on a range of manufacturing workforce issues. Read more about this partnership!

The Ray Marshall Center has partnered with the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) to perform research activities related to TDHCA’s residents. The purpose of this research will be to obtain input from TDHCA residents about aspects of their living situations as they pertain to statewide regulations set forth in the Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP) and Uniform Multifamily Rules. Read more about this project!

The RMC has entered into a new partnership with Pre-K for SA (PK4SA), a City of San Antonio agency leading the implementation of San Antonio’s prekindergarten investment, to be its research and evaluation partner to provide its first study of the effects of its high-quality prekindergarten on near and long-terms student outcomes. Read more about the project!

The team working on the CareerAdvance® implementation evaluation have released their latest findings! This report examines changes in CareerAdvance®, particularly focusing on the program transition from HPOG I to HPOG II with changing partnerships and a broader population of eligible participants. Read more about these findings!

See what we've been up to in our latest newsletter! Check out Issue 27, March 2017!

The Ray Marshall Center, along with Workforce Matters (a consulting firm that provides innovative strategies and workforce solutions), are proposing to launch a partnership to explore via a survey and series of interviews 1) If and how existing sector partnerships are addressing race equity issues; and 2) The most promising practices among those initiatives that are doing so. Read more about it!

The Ray Marshall Center (RMC) along with consulting partner Jobs for the Future (JFF) will work with SA Works to develop an action plan for future work. Read more about this plan!

See what we've been up to in our latest newsletter! Check out Issue 26, December 2016!

The Ray Marshall Center (RMC), with support from the Literacy Coalition of Central Texas (LCCT), will conduct an evaluation of English@Work’s benefits and costs for participating employers, a required component of LCCT’s grant from the Houston Center for Literacy. Read more about this evaluation!

The Ray Marshall Center (RMC), with support from Nuru International (NI), will assist NI Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) with the methodology, tools, and data analysis of its integrated programming model in Ethiopia and Kenya. RMC will provide technical guidance on measurement and data collection for the Multidimensional Poverty Index along with quantitative data analysis of NI’s Multidimensional Poverty Survey (MPI). Read more about the key questions!

See what we've been up to in our latest newsletter! Check out Issue 25, April 2016!

The team working on the CareerAdvance® implementation study has released their latest findings! This report examines changes in the CareerAdvance® program that directly relate to the experience and progress of participants in the first through tenth cohorts through July 2015—the end of the sixth program year. Read more about these findings!

See what we've been up to in our latest newsletter! Check out Issue 24, February 2016!

See what we've been up to in our latest newsletter! Check out Issue 23, December 2015!

ACC proposes to establish an Office of Student Money Management (ACC-OSMM) – the office’s mission would be to give a stronger foundation to students’ academic and career goals and successes by helping them take charge of their financial futures. ACC will partner with the Ray Marshall Center (RMC) to perform an evaluation, both formative and summative, on the effectiveness of their efforts on the student outcome measures of interest. Read more about the partnership!

See what we've been up to in our latest newsletter! Check out Issue 22, October 2015!

The Ray Marshall Center, in collaboration with the Corporation for a Skilled Workforce, will be evaluating the efforts of the Mid-South Community College-led Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College Career Training (TAACCCT) grant for the Greater Memphis Alliance for a Competitive Workforce (GMACW). Read more about it!

See what we've been up to in our latest newsletter! Check out Issue 21, June 2015!

Researchers working on the CareerAdvance® implementation study have released their latest findings! This report examines the CareerAdvance® program in Tulsa (OK) as a case study on the sustainability of a two‐generation anti‐poverty strategy that seeks to increase family economic mobility by investing intensively in sector‐based, career pathway education and training for parents, while their children are simultaneously enrolled in quality early childhood education. Read more about this case study!

See what we've been up to in our latest newsletter! Check out Issue 20, April 2015!

See what we've been up to in our latest newsletter! Check out Issue 19, February 2015!

The Ray Marshall Center has entered into a partnership with the Center for Disease Control to link food assistance and other related data from Texas with National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data to assist in policy planning in the United States. Data to be linked includes Texas Administrative Data Files (TADFs), Texas Food Stamp Program (FSP) records, Texas Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) files, and Unemployment Insurance (UI) files. Read more about this project!

Researchers working on the CareerAdvance® implementation study have released their latest findings! In this report, we describe the recommended sectoral jobs strategy for parents served by the Community Action Project (CAP) of Tulsa County as a pilot initiative, now called CareerAdvance®, to be implemented starting in the summer of 2009. Read more about this pilot study!

RMC researchers studying the implementation of CareerAdvance® have released their latest findings! This report examines changes in the CareerAdvance® program that directly relate to the experience and progress of participants through July 2014—the end of the fifth program year— and the recruitment of Cohort 10 in spring 2014. Read more about the key findings!

In this project with IES and Harvard University, we will marry data available through Apply TX on individual students’ FAFSA completion status, local FAFSA completion supports, and text messaging as a low-cost and effective means of communication to provide students and families with targeted information about the FAFSA and their status in the FAFSA completion process and to connect them with additional FAFSA support when needed. Read more about this partnership!

See what we've been up to in our latest newsletter! Check out Issue 18, April 2014!

See what we've been up to in our latest newsletter! Check out Issue 18, August 2014!

A Ray Marshall Center research team, led by Dr. Christopher King and Dr. Kelly Mikelson, are conducting an evaluation of the TAACCCT (Trade Adjusmtent Assistance Community College and Career Training) grant to Austin Community College, a co-grantee with Northern Virginia Community College, funded by the U.S. Department of Labor. Read more about this evaluation!

See what we've been up to in our latest newsletter! Check out Issue 17, January 2014!

RMC researchers studying the implementation of CareerAdvance® have released their latest findings! This report examines fundamental changes in the CareerAdvance® program that directly relate to the experience and progress of participants through July 2013 (the end of the fourth program year) and the recruitment of Cohort 8 in April 2013. Check it out!

See what we've been up to in our latest newsletter! Check out Issue 16, October 2013!

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See what we've been up to in our latest newsletter! Check out Issue 14, May 2013!

The team studying the implementation of CareerAdvance® has released their latest findings! This report discusses the development and evolution of the CareerAdvance® program, which began in Tulsa in 2009 as the parent training portion of a two-generation strategy to end the cycle of poverty in families with a child enrolled in Head Start or Early Head Start. Check it out!

The team working on the CareerAdvance® implementation study have released their latest findings! This presentation was part of a visit from Ascend to CAP Tulsa on May 3, 2012. Check it out!

The RMC researchers studying the implementation of CareerAdvance® have released their latest findings! This report provides the background, rationale, and overview of the first year of implementation of the CareerAdvance® program. Read more about it!

The RMC has entered into a new partnership with USDA's Economic Research Service to analyze the interaction of SNAP caseload and recipient household composition dynamics aligned with receipt of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits and participation in UI covered employment, and to demonstrate by state-specific approaches and accomplishments how analyses based on longitudinal files of linked confidential state administrative data files can be replicated in other states, and extended and refined by the partners in the consortium states. Read more about this project!

RMC researchers on the CareerAdvance® Implementation Study have released their latest findings! This presentation, prepared for the Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) University Partnership Research Grants meeting held in Washington D.C., presents an overview of CareerAdvance®. Read more about it!

The team studying the implementation of CareerAdvance® have released their latest findings! This report presents an overview of the current state of adult education in Tulsa and in the U.S., and highlights successful programs in the areas of GED/Adult Basic Education, ESL Education, and Developmental Education. Read more about it!

The RMC team working on the CareerAdvance® Implementation Study have released the latest findings! The report evaluates the first year implementation of CareerAdvance®, a pilot program conducted by the Community Action Project (CAP) of Tulsa County aimed at providing low-income parents of children enrolled in early childhood education centers with workforce training, education, and skill certification. Read more about it!

In collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team of partners, the Ray Marshall Center (RMC) is developing and implementing a sectoral workforce development strategy for low-skilled, low-income parents of children served by early childhood programs in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There is emerging evidence that children whose parents hold stable jobs with progressively rising incomes exhibit better academic and behavioral outcomes. RMC and its partners have undertaken a dual-generation approach to poverty reduction that strengthens the investment in early childhood development by equipping Head Start parents with workforce training and gainful employment opportunities. Read more about the project!

The Ray Marshall Center is pleased to announce that we have entered into a new partnership with Texas Workorce Commission! The project conducts a child care market rate survey to be used by 28 Local Workforce Development Boards that manage the federal child care program in Texas. Read more about it!