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Earnings

Project Quality Employment Through Skills Training (QUEST) had the largest effects on long-term annual earnings (an average of $7,728 per year). Project QUEST provides financial resources and supportive services to people with low income to help them complete occupational training programs, pass certification exams and obtain credentials, and access well-paying jobs in the health care industry.

Employment

Project Quality Employment Through Skills Training (QUEST) had the largest effects on long-term employment (an average of 8 percentage points). Project QUEST provides financial resources and supportive services to people with low income to help them complete occupational training programs, pass certification exams and obtain credentials, and access well-paying jobs in the health care industry.

Public benefit receipt

Chicago Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) had the largest effects on long-term benefit receipt (decreasing the amount of public benefits received by $320 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.

Effects on long-term benefit receipt

Chicago Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA)

$320

Decrease long-term benefit receipt

Education and training

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.