Reports
2012
Why Use the Services of Alternative Staffing Organizations:
Perspectives from Customer Businesses
December 2012. Françoise Carré, Brandynn Holgate, Risa Takenaka, and Helen Levine
How Youth Are Put At Risk by Parents’ Low-Wage Jobs (Executive Summary)
November 2012. Randy Albelda and Lisa Dodson, Boston College, with Diana Salas Coronado and Marya Mtshali
Alternative Staffing Organizations and Skills:
Linking Temporary Work with Training
November 2012. Brandynn Holgate, Françoise Carré, Helen Levine, and Risa Takenaka
Breakfast & Lunch Participation in Massachusetts Schools
Food assistance programs chart
September 2012. A joint publication of the Center for Social Policy, Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, and the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute. Donna Haig Friedman
The Alternative Staffing Work Experience:
Populations, Barriers and Employment Outcomes
September 2012. Helen Levine, Brandynn Holgate, Risa Takenaka, and Françoise Carré
An Alternative to Temporary Staffing:
Considerations for Workforce Practitioners
July 2012. A joint publication of the Center for Social Policy and Public/Private Ventures
Linda Kato, Public/Private Ventures; Françoise Carré, Center for Social Policy;
Laura E. Johnson and Deena Schwartz, both of Public/Private Ventures
Mattapan United Community Questionnaire
June 2012. Guidance and Technical Assistance: Center for Social Policy
Using Data to Tell a Neighborhood Story
April 2012 Tim H. Davis
Pathways to Family Success Final Evaluation Report
April 2012. Berna Kahraman, Ghazal Zulfiqar, Donna Haig Friedman, and Alice Carter
Work Hours in Retail: Room for Improvement
April 2012. Françoise Carré and Chris Tilly
Rapid Re-Housing of Families Experiencing Homelessness in Massachusetts:
Maintaining Housing Stability
April 2012. Tim H. Davis and Terry Saunders Lane
2011
Finding the Right Fit:
How Alternative Staffing Affects Worker Outcomes
December 2011. Françoise Carré, Brandynn Holgate, and Helen Levine
The Fairmount Initiative Quarterly Progress Report
People and Places: Understanding the Processes, Outcomes and Impacts of Interventions of the Fairmount Corridor
October 2011. Donna Haig Friedman
Entry-Level Workforce Investment Feasibility Study
May 2011. Brandynn Holgate and Tressa Stazinski
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2010
Women in the Down Economy: Impacts of the Recession and the Stimulus in Massachusetts
March 2010. Randy Albelda, Christa Kelleher, Jordan Parkha, and Diana Salas
Competitive Strategies in the US Retail Industry: Consequences for Jobs in Food and Consumer Electronics Stores
January 2010. Françoise Carré, Chris Tilly, and Brandynn Holgate
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2009
Counting on Care Work: Human Infrastructure in Massachusetts (Full Report)
September 2009. Randy Albelda, Mignon Duffy, and Nancy Folbre with Clare Hammonds and Jooyeoun Suh
Counting on Care Work: Human Infrastructure in Massachusetts (Executive Summary)
September 2009. Randy Albelda, Mignon Duffy, and Nancy Folbre with Clare Hammonds and Jooyeoun Suh
Massachusetts Adult Basic Education and ESOL Distance Learning Programs, Final Report
June 2009. Berna Kahraman, Amelia Mallona, Donna Haig Friedman, and Sarah Kuck Jalbert
Handbook of Screening For Instructors and Administrators of Online ESOL Programs
June 2009. Berna Kahraman and Amelia Mallona
Handbook of Screening For Instructors and Administrators of Online GED Programs
June 2009. Berna Kahraman and Amelia Mallona
Handbook of Support For Instructors and Administrators of Online ESOL Programs:
For Supporting Students for Persistence and Success
June 2009. Berna Kahraman and Amelia Mallona
Handbook of Support For Instructors and Administrators of Online GED Programs: For Supporting Students for Persistence and Success
June 2009; Berna Kahraman and Amelia Mallona
Informal Sector and Social Policy: Personal and Technical Reflections after the Cornell-SEWA-WIEGO Exposure and Dialogue Program in Oaxaca, Mexico
June 2009. Namrata Bali, Kaushik Basu, Suman Bery, Haroon Bhorat, Françoise Carré, Martha Chen, Gary Fields, Ravi Kanbur, Santiago Levy, Francie Lund, Jeemol Unni, and Imraan Valodia
Issues on Developing a Common Framework on Informal Employment
May 2009. Françoise Carré and James Heintz
Immigrant Workers in the Massachusetts Health Care Industry:
A Report on Status and Future Prospects
March 2009. Ramon Borges-Mendez, James Jennings, Donna Haig Friedman, Malo Hutson, and Teresa Eliot Roberts
Why It’s Harder (and Different) For single Mothers: Gender, Motherhood, Labor Markets and Public Work Supports
January 2009. Randy Albelda
Brokering Up: The Role of Temporary Staffing in Overcoming Labor Market Barriers, Report on the Alternative Staffing Demonstration 2005-08
January 2009. Françoise Carré, Brandynn Holgate, Helen Levine, and Mandira Kala
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2008
Fits & Starts: The Difficult Path for Working Single Parents
November 2008. Randy Albelda, Rebecca Loya, Ruther J. Liberman, and Elisabeth Babcock
Continuity and Change in Low-wage Work in U.S. Retail Trade
April 2008. Françoise Carré, Chris Tilly, Brandynn Holgate
Building Knowledge and Power with the Third Sector in Haifa, Israel:
A Report of the Learning Exchange Research Project
February 2008. Donna Haig Friedman, Jennifer Cohen, Yael Abada, Rula Deeb, Riki Tegave, Daphna Ziv, Marina Zamsky, Tiffany Bradley, Liron Peleg-Hadomi, Eran Hadomi, and Moran Ron
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2007
The First Two Years of Housing First in Quincy, Massachusetts: "This Place Gives Me Peace, Happiness, and Hope"
November 2007. Tatjana Meschede
Bridging the Gaps:
A Picture of How Work Supports Work in Ten States
October 2007. Randy Albelda, Heather Bouchey, Elizabeth Chimineti, Rebecca Ray, and Ben Zipperer
Looking Back and Looking Ahead:
Policy Visions from the New Deal and Great Society
August 2007. Françoise Carré
Housing Resources Leveraged by the Special Homeless Initiative of the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, 1992-2006: Evaluation of the Special Homelessness Initiative Massachusetts Department of Mental Health
June 2007. Tatjana Meschede, Helen Levine, and Martha R. Burt
Preventing Homelessness and Promoting Housing Stability: A Comparative Analysis
June 2007. Donna Haig Friedman, Jennifer Raymond, Kimberly Puhala, Tatjana Meschede, Julia Tripp, and Mandira Kala
History, Principles, Context, and Approach:
The Special Homeless Initiatives
April 2007. Martha R. Burt
Latino Participation in Food Assistance Programs
March 2007. Anny Rivera-Ottenberger and Elaine Werby
Is the Apparent Decrease in Injury Rates in Construction the Result of Changes in Reporting?
March 2007. Laura S. Welch, Xiuwen Dong, Françoise Carré, and Knut Ringen
Bridging the Gaps: Structuring Benefits to Promote Mobility for Low Wage Workers
January 2007; Randy Albelda and Heather Boushey
A Programmatic Audit of the Massachusetts Vitamin Litigation Project Final Report
January 2007. Colleen Manning, Tatjana Meschede, and Elaine Werby
Under a Watchful Eye:
Parents and Children Living in Shelters
January 2007. Donna Haig Friedman
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2006
Strength in Networks: Employment Rights Organizations and the Problem of Co-Ordination
December 2006. Charles Heckscher and Françoise Carré
Moving Here Saved My Life: The Experience of Formerly Chronically Homeless Women and Men in Quincy’s Housing First Projects, Interim Report
August 2006; Tatjana Meschede
Prevention at Work: Homelessness Prevention Initiative (HPI) Interim Evaluation Report,
January 2004 through September 2005
May 2006. Donna Haig Friedman, Jennifer Raymond, Consuela Greene, John McGah, Elizabeth Brown, Julia Tripp, and Helen Levin
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2005
Managing project expectations in human services information systems implementations: The case of homeless management information systems
October 2005. Oscar Gutierrez and Donna Haig Friedman
Transitions at DTA: Homeless Pilot Programs at the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance (2003-2005)
July 2005. John McGah and Amy Carlin
Partners in Prevention: Community-Wide Homeless Prevention in Massachusetts and the United States
June 2005. Donna Haig Friedman, John McGah, Julia Tripp, Michelle Kahan, Nicole Witherbee, and Amy Carlin
The Social and Economic Costs of Employee Misclassification in Construction, Maine Report
April 2005. Françoise Carré and Randall Wilson
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2004
The Social and Economic Costs of Employee Misclassification in Construction, Massachusetts Report
December 2004. Françoise Carré and Randall Wilson
Bridges and Barriers to Housing for Chronically Homeless Street Dwellers: The Effects of Medical and Substance Abuse Services on Housing Attainment
October 2004. Tatjana Meschede
IMPACT - Information Management, Public Access, Community Transformation, Final Evaluation Report
August 2004. Oscar Gutierrez and John McGah
Hard Numbers, Hard Times:
Homeless Individuals in Massachusetts Emergency Shelters 1999-2003
July 2004. Tatjana Meschede, Brian Sokol, Jennifer Raymond, Donna Haig Friedman, Nancy Sullivan, Michelle Kahan, Susan Ma, Michael Faris, and Bill Silvestri
Emergency Preparedness: A Manual for Homeless Service Providers
May 2004. Kelly Tobin and Phyllis Freeman
Reality and Analysis: Personal and Technical Reflections on the Working Lives of Six Women
April 2004. Martha Chen, Renana Jhabvala, Ravi Kanbur, Nidhi Mirani, Karl Osner, Kaushik Basu, Suman Bery, Ela Bhatt, Françoise Carré, Nancy Chau, Gary Fields, Frances Lund, Carol Richards, Jeemol Unni, and Imraan Valodia
One Family Scholar Project Evaluation
(Executive Summary)
February 2004. Michelle Kahan, Jennifer Raymond, Consuela Greene, and Donna Haig Friedman
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2003
Technology Goes Home (Executive Summary)
November 2003. Donna Haig Friedman, Michelle Kahan, Tatjana Meschede, and Consuela Green
Alternative Job Brokering: Addressing Labor Market Disadvantages, Improving the Temp Experience, and Enhancing Job Opportunities
October 2003. Françoise Carré, Joaquín Herranz, Jr., Dorie Seavey, Carlha Vickers, Ashley Aull, and Rebecca Keegan
Surviving Against the Odds: Families' Journeys Off Welfare and Out of Homelessness
July 2003. Donna Haig Friedman, Tatjana Meschede, and Michelle Hayes
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2002
IMPACT – Information Management, Public Access, Community Transformation: Year Two Evaluation Report, September 1, 2001 through August 31, 2002
December 2002. Oscar Gutierrez and John McGah
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2001
IMPACT – Information Management, Public Access, Community Transformation Year One Evaluation Report September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2001
September 2001. Oscar Gutierrez and John McGah