The Pathways Clearinghouse includes services tags for “Supportive services” as well as for specific supports like “Housing” and “Child care.” How does the Pathways Clearinghouse classify services into these groups? Why does it consider them separately?

Employment and training interventions commonly provide light-touch supports—such as money or vouchers for child care or transportation—to address barriers to training or work. The Pathways Clearinghouse categorizes these kinds of services as “supportive services,” because they are explicitly designed to support employment and training.

During Periods of Recession and Recovery — What Works to Improve Employment and Earnings for People with Low Incomes?

What do we know about how well interventions designed to improve employment and earnings for people with low incomes have worked in past periods of economic recession and recovery? Learning from what has been effective during past periods of economic difficulty can help inform how we meet today’s challenges.

The Pathways Clearinghouse Guide for Researchers

Introduction

The Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse is dedicated to gathering information from research and making research evidence more useful to decision makers. As part of these efforts, the Pathways Clearinghouse identifies interventions that aim to directly or indirectly improve employment outcomes and systematically evaluates and summarizes the evidence of interventions’ effectiveness.

Delivering Remote Services to Job Seekers with Low Incomes During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This September 2021 webinar featured a discussion with practitioners who have adapted existing services to remotely provide work readiness activities or education and training services to job seekers with low incomes. This webinar:

Employment Coaching

The Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse defines employment coaching as intensive, collaborative assistance with identifying and addressing employment barriers and goals. Clients typically identify challenges to getting and keeping a job such as child care, transportation, or time management skills, and then develop strategies and set goals to help overcome these challenges. This Evidence Snapshot describes the effectiveness of programs that were identified by the Pathways Clearinghouse as using employment coaching.

What Works During Economic Recessions and Recoveries? Evidence from the Pathways Clearinghouse - Brief

The COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting economic recession, have impacted employment in dramatic ways. In the United States, at the start of the pandemic, the unemployment rate more than tripled, disproportionately affecting some groups. Evidence on programs that have effectively improved employment and earnings for people with low incomes during past recessions and recoveries can help policymakers and practitioners target their resources as they seek to improve employment in the wake of the pandemic and beyond.

What Works During Economic Recessions and Recoveries? Evidence from the Pathways Clearinghouse - Synthesis Report

The COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting economic recession, have impacted employment in dramatic ways. In the United States, at the start of the pandemic, the unemployment rate more than tripled, disproportionately affecting some groups. Evidence on programs that have effectively improved employment and earnings for people with low incomes during past recessions and recoveries can help policymakers and practitioners target their resources as they seek to improve employment in the wake of the pandemic and beyond.

Behind the Scenes: How the Pathways Clearinghouse Evidence Review Works

How does the Pathways Clearinghouse determine which employment and training programs improve outcomes for people with low incomes? Watch this video to learn about the systematic evidence review process behind the Pathways Clearinghouse and how this supports those who want to easily identify evidence-based programs and strategies to help job seekers find and maintain gainful employment.

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