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Working Toward Self-Sufficiency: Early Findings from a Program for Housing Voucher Recipients in New York City

2013; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.2139/ssrn.2202444

1556-5068

Nandita Verma, Betsy L. Tessler, Cynthia Miller, James Riccio, Zawadi Rucks, Edith Yang,

Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

Opportunity NYC – Work Rewards is testing three ways of increasing work among families receiving housing vouchers — services and a savings plan under the federal Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program, the FSS program plus cash incentives for sustained full-time work, and the cash incentives alone. Early results suggest intriguing positive findings for certain subgroups.