Chicago Neighborhood Job Start: Summary Evaluation Report, A Transitional Jobs Response to the Great Recession, Executive Summary

This brief summarizes the results of an evaluation of Chicago Neighborhood JobStart, a program that sought to place 2,200 low-income residents of historically high-unemployment neighborhoods into temporary jobs with local employers. The program operated for approximately four months between June and September 30, 2010, using a combination of public funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and private funding from the 2016 Fund for Chicago Neighborhoods.