Work Advancement and Support Center (WASC) Demonstration had the largest effects on long-term annual earnings (an average of $3,681 per year). The WASC Demonstration delivered integrated, intensive retention and advancement services and financial work supports to workers with low wages and reemployed dislocated workers to fill gaps in services available to them and help them advance and increase their incomes.
Work Advancement and Support Center (WASC) Demonstration with Incentive Payments had the largest effects on long-term employment (an average of 2 percentage points). The WASC Demonstration with Incentive Payments delivered integrated, intensive retention and advancement services with participation incentives workers with low wages and reemployed dislocated workers to fill gaps in services available to them and help them advance and increase their incomes.
Chicago Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) had the largest effects on long-term benefit receipt (decreasing the amount of public benefits received by $256 per year). Chicago ERA provided career counseling and related services to working, single parents with low incomes who received Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), with the goal of increasing their earnings.
Decrease long-term benefit receipt
Work Advancement and Support Center (WASC) Demonstration with Incentive Payments had the largest effects on education and training (increasing the attainment of a degree or credential by an average of 7 percentage points). The WASC Demonstration with Incentive Payments delivered integrated, intensive retention and advancement services with participation incentives workers with low wages and reemployed dislocated workers to fill gaps in services available to them and help them advance and increase their incomes.
Businesses had to propose the training type and expected benefit of the program to receive a grant. Depending on the business, the trainings could range from 12 weeks to one year. The trainings included on-the-job training to improve employees’ productive work skills and education skills, such as reading, math, and English as a second language.
