On May 21, CLASP and the National Transitional Jobs Network (NTJN) hosted a webinar featuring Mark Elliott and Anne Roder of Mobility, presenting on new research they have conducted on the value of subsidized employment programs.

This document looks at select provisions in the Recovery Act that affected low-income people and their families.

Since taking office in January, President Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress have faced the worst economic crisis in at least a generation, with sluggish credit markets, job losses of nearly 600,000 or more per month and sharply negative overall growth. The federal government responded in…