JOBS Evaluation: How Well Are They Faring. AFDC Families with Preschool-AgedChildren in Atlanta at the Outset of the JOBS Evaluation. Executive Summary

摘要

This report provides a descriptive summary of a Child Outcomes Study (a componentof the larger Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training (JOBS) program evaluation) in Fulton County, Georgia near the start of the evaluation. The Fulton County JOBS evaluation uses a human capital development approach, a labor force attachment approach, and a control group. 790 respondents from the JOBS Child Outcomes Study in Fulton County participated in the Descriptive sample. All are mothers whose youngest child was between the ages of three and five at the time of random assignment and all were 20 years of age or older. 96 percent were African-American. The report finds that the mothers in the Fulton County Descriptive Sample are highly disadvantaged in many ways. Their reading and math literacy levels are low; they report minimal economic or other assistance from the fathers of their children; and they have high rates of depressive symptoms.