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Notre Dame researchers offer randomized‑trial evidence as Louisiana council eyes replication
Summary
A researcher from the University of Notre Dame’s LEO lab described randomized controlled trial methods and four evaluated anti‑poverty programs (job training, wraparound case management, one‑time homelessness prevention assistance, and a community college persistence program) and encouraged Louisiana pilots and replication.
Rachel Fulcher Dawson of the University of Notre Dame’s Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities told the Empowering Families council that rigorous partner evaluations can reveal what interventions reliably move people out of poverty and which should be scaled.
Dawson summarized four LEO evaluations: Goodwill EXCEL (an accelerated adult learning program that the presenter said increased formal employment and produced…
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