The research behind our work.

Independent studies and reports we rely on.

Job training works

Year Up: in quarters 23 and 24, about six years after random assignment, average quarterly earnings were 28% higher for young adults offered Year Up than for a control group, in a randomized study by Abt Associates for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Project QUEST, in San Antonio: participants earned $54,000 more than a control group over 14 years, in a randomized study by the Economic Mobility Corporation.

Per Scholas: its IT training raised participants' earnings in six of the ten years MDRC followed them, in a randomized study published in 2025.

Why it matters now

Stanford Digital Economy Lab: employment for 22-to-25-year-olds in the most AI-exposed jobs is 19% below where it would have been.

Brynjolfsson, Li and Raymond: an AI assistant raised the productivity of 5,179 customer-support agents by 14% on average, and by 34% for the newest, least-skilled workers.

Who funds this work

Giving USA 2026: Americans gave $617.20 billion to charity in 2025, $92.01 billion of it to education.

Microsoft Elevate: $4 billion over five years for AI skills.

Anthropic and the Gates Foundation: $200 million for AI in K-12 classrooms and career guidance.

RAISE US: more than $500 million committed for adult workers.

The White House Pledge to America's Youth: signed by more than 60 organizations investing in AI education.