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"The absence of a more consistent, predictable pattern [of impacts] suggests that giving priority for enrollment into GAIN to particular segments of the welfare caseload may not yield effective results across all counties… At the same time, the challenge remains to improve the consistency of GAIN’s effectiveness across a wide variety of subgroups"(1ii). "In the absence of more convincing evidence of a payoff from maximizing the use of basic education, a more equal emphasis on upfront job search as well as basic education activities in combination with other factors, could be a better way of serving those lacking basic skills"(1iii). "Also important is whether other combinations of practices can produce results as good as or (by helping more recipients get higher-quality jobs) better than those found in Riverside- e.g., by instituting a strong job development component in a program emphasizing vocational education and training, or delivering a strong employment message in a program that (unlike Riverside) actually produces a greater net increase in (i.e., impact only) the use of vocationally oriented activities"(1v). "It is therefore important to ask whether GAIN’s effectiveness can be enhanced by other reforms now under debate or already instituted that aim to improve the financial payoff from working"(1v).
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