This paper presents an analysis of workers who persistently have low earnings in the labor market over a period of three or more years. Some of these workers manage to escape from this low-earning status over subsequent years, while many do not. Using data from the Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) program at the U.S.
Office of Human Services Policy (HSP)
The Office of Human Services Policy (HSP) strives to improve the well-being of children, youth, and families and break down silos across government. It does so by providing timely, actionable, cross-cutting policy analysis and research, and by leading cross-government coordination to address urgent human services challenges. The office works closely with federal, state, local, and private sector partners on issues including economic mobility and employment, child poverty and well-being, child welfare, family strengthening and fatherhood, early childhood education, youth development, community initiatives, child support, recidivism, and homelessness.
HSP advises the ASPE and other HHS leadership on human services policy matters. It leads and actively participates in interagency initiatives to align federal programming; conducts policy analysis and other research on human services and related issues; shares findings with and provides technical assistance to a diverse range of stakeholders; and coordinates development of HHS’s human services legislative proposals. HSP serves as a liaison with other agencies on broad economic matters and is the Department’s lead on poverty measurement.
The Office of Human Services Policy has three divisions:
- The Division of Children and Youth Policy focuses on policies related to the well-being of children and youth, including early childhood education and child welfare, and leads the Children’s Interagency Coordinating Council and the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs.
- The Division of Family and Community Policy covers policies to strengthen low-income families and communities and address barriers to economic mobility. The division leads the Interagency Council on Economic Mobility.
- The Division of Data and Technical Analysis provides data analytic capacity for policy development through data collection activities, secondary data analysis, modeling, and cost analyses. The Division also issues annual updates to the poverty guidelines and reports to Congress on indicators of welfare dependence.
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Services Policy: Miranda Lynch-Smith
Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Services Policy: Jennifer Burnszynski
Reports
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Advanced SearchStatus Report on Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2002
I . Introduction and Overview BackgroundIn its report for the FY 2002 Appropriation for the Department of Health and Human Services, the Conference Committee stipulated for the fifth year that research within the Office of the Secretary should be dedicated to study the outcomes of welfare reform:
Adoption Dynamics: Comparative Results for Subpopulations
Issue Papers on Foster Care and Adoption Adoption Dynamics: Comparative Results for Subpopulations by Fred H. Wulczyn Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago November 2002
Assessing the Field of Post-Adoption Services: Family Needs, Program Models and Evaluation Issues. Analysis of Secondary Data
The analysis of secondary data explored whether administrative data could be used to better understand the use of adoption subsidies for purchase of services and to describe the disruption, dissolution, and displacement of adoptions.
Assessing the Field of Post-Adoption Services: Family Needs, Program Models and Evaluation Issues. Case Study Report
The Case Study component of the study used interviews with state adoption program managers and post adoption services coordinators/providers as well as focus groups with adoptive parents. Site visits to programs in five states — Georgia, Massachusetts, Oregon, Texas, and Virginia — included well-regarded programs that varied in structure and services offered.
Assessing the Field of Post-Adoption Services: Family Needs, Program Models and Evaluation Issues. Summary Report
Content Literature Review Need for Post-Adoption Services PAS Programs in Operation or Development Evaluation of PAS Case Studies of PAS Programs Need for Post-Adoption Services
Assessing the Field of Post-Adoption Services: Family Needs, Program Models and Evaluation Issues: Case Study
Contents Need for Post-adoption Services Program Structure and Services Program Development Program Goals and Eligibility Program Structure Services Offered Su