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Findings Available
Final Impact Findings
Final Descriptive/Analytical Findings
Findings
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03/01/03:
Minnesota Work First and MFIP Program Evaluation: Findings from the WorkFIRST-MFIP Evaluation, Final Report
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Final Descriptive/Analytical Findings:
- When the welfare participation rates of Work First clients were compared to 1-month MFIP clients, there was no statistically significant difference in the risk of exiting welfare between the groups.
- Clients in the 6-month program had a 29% lower risk of exiting welfare compared with those in Work First.
- When the employment services participation was contrasted with clients in 1-month MFIP counties, there was no statistically significant difference in risk of exiting ES between the groups.
- Clients in the 6-month counties has a 70% lower risk of exiting employment services programs compared with those in Work First.
- Of the total number of applicable Work First cases, 64 cases (12.8%) received a sanction. Of these, the majority of sanctioned cases (57) resulted in a closure of the case (11.4 percent), while the remainder (7) resulted in an individual sanction in which the non-compliant caretaker was removed from the case (1.4 percent) although the case remained open.
- Comparing sanction rates, the rate was statistically significantly lower in the Work First counties than it was in the MFIP counties with 12.8% compared to 29.6%. One could argue that the stricter rules of Work First discouraged sanctioning.
- The survey indicates that 86.7% of MFIP recipients had at least one person in their family working within one year of leaving the program.
- There were no statistically significant differences in earnings between the different models at any of the different milestones.
- Over the first four quarters, the earnings of MFIP leavers showed a gradual increase.
- Assessments of global well-being at their first anniversary showed "stayers" assessments were not statistically significant for this group of clients and for the leaver group tests indicated that the different cell counts were statistically significant.
- When asked by surveyors how well the oldest child interacted with classmates and teachers, over 93% said their child got along “very well” or “okay”; under 6% said they “just got by” or “did not get along well.”
- When asked if their child had to repeat a grade 87% said their oldest child completed each grade successfully.
- On a global indicator of well-being, approximately 2/3 of stayers and ¾ of “leavers” said that they were better off than they were a year earlier.
- Relationship Status: Just over 20% of respondents moved in with a partner; 8.6% said they got married w/i the last 18 months; 14.4% said their spouse/partner/someone close died in the last 18 months; 14.1% said they got divorced or separated.
- Family Formation: One third of all respondents said that they had given birth to a child and 22% had gotten pregnant in the last 18 months.
- There were no statistically significant differences between the different models with respect to the child outcomes of how well their child adjusted to school or whether their child(ren) completed each grade or else had to repeat a grade.
- In response to questions about housing and mobility, 30% of respondents said that they moved to a new household so that they could have their own place to stay.
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