The Partnership for Working Families: Best Practices in Cities.

This report describes 39 successful initiatives that illustrate what 27 cities have been able to accomplish for working families across four goal areas: improving job access and quality employment for residents of underemployed neighborhoods (e.g., connecting quality labor-seeking employers in metropolitan markets with placement and training organizations serving high-needs neighborhoods); rewarding and reinforcing the work efforts of welfare-to-work and other low-income working families (e.g., city outreach and tax assistance campaigns that help ensure that all eligible low-income families apply for and receive their federal and state Earned Income Tax Credit refunds); increasing the savings, assets, financial sophistication, and wealth of low-income families (e.g., promoting Individual Development Accounts); and strengthening the community services and institutions most crucial to working families (e.g., improving schools, public safety, child care, and/or human services). Each description includes the name of a contact person from whom additional information is available. (SM)