Search for publications and resources from Pathways to Work that summarize evidence on different topics related to employment and training programs for people with low incomes.
Protocol for the Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse: Methods and Standards, Version 2.0
Standards report | September 2025
This report provides an updated protocol for the Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse review to promote consistency in review procedures and findings, and describes the methods and standards used by the Pathways to Work team to answer the research questions of interest.
Education
Evidence snapshot | November 2024
This Evidence Snapshot describes the effectiveness of programs that were identified by the Pathways Clearinghouse as using education as their primary service. It summarizes what we know about these programs and their impacts so Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and other program administrators, policymakers, researchers, and the general public can apply the evidence to their context and the questions that matter to them.
Career Pathways
Evidence snapshot | September 2024
This Evidence Snapshot outlines the effectiveness of programs that follow a career pathways framework, offering education, training, and support to help participants attain higher credentials and better job opportunities, as identified by the Pathways to Work Clearinghouse. Career pathways typically include connections to employment opportunities through partnerships with employers, employer engagement, and paid work experiences.
Occupational and Sectoral Training
Evidence snapshot | July 2024
This Evidence Snapshot describes the effectiveness of programs providing occupational and sectoral training as their primary service, as identified by the Pathways to Work Clearinghouse. These programs prepare participants for jobs or sectors such as truck driving, welding, health care, or manufacturing.
Case Management
Evidence snapshot | February 2024
This Evidence Snapshot describes the effectiveness of programs that were identified by the Pathways to Work Clearinghouse as using case management as their primary service. The Pathways to Work assigned an effectiveness rating to each intervention in each of four outcome domains: earnings, employment, public benefit receipt, and education and training.
Employment Retention Services
Evidence snapshot | March 2023
This Evidence Snapshot describes the effectiveness of programs that were identified by the Pathways Clearinghouse as providing employment retention services, defined as supplementary services provided when a client already has a job.
Work Experience and Work-Based Learning
Evidence snapshot | March 2023
This Evidence Snapshot describes the effectiveness of programs that were identified by the Pathways Clearinghouse as providing work experience, defined as work that is paid or unpaid, or a combination of work and work-based learning, defined as paid or unpaid work or learning experiences that occur in a work setting.
Key Elements of Employment Programs; Strategies from the Field for Identifying, Implementing, and Sustaining Core Components
Brief | November 2022
This brief is designed to provide guidance for employment service providers and other human services agency staff about strategies to qualitatively identify core components of interventions and processes and methods that have been used to identify, document, and implement the core components.
Using Pathways Evidence Snapshots to Understand the Evidence Behind Employment Strategies
Videos | September 2022
This video describes Evidence Snapshots and reports produced by the Pathways Clearinghouse and depicts how they are part of a larger suite of products now available.
Digging Deeper into What Works: What Services Improve Labor Market Outcomes, and for Whom?
Synthesis report | August 2022
This report synthesizes the information in the Pathways Clearinghouse database to provide evidence on the likelihood that specific interventions, services, and combinations of services are likely to improve labor market outcomes for different groups of people.