; (2) to prompt innovation and improvement in the reentry of justice-involved individuals into the workforce so that successful initiatives can be established or continued and replicated; and (3) to further develop the evidence on how to improve employment, earnings, and skill attainment, and reduce recidivism, of justice-involved individuals, through rigorous evaluations of specific services provided, including how they affect different populations and how they are best combined and sequenced, and disseminate such evidence to entities supporting the reentry of justice-involved individuals into the workforce. (b) Reentry employment competitive grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements authorized (1) In general From the amounts appropriated under section 174(e) and not reserved under subsection (h), the Secretary— (A) shall, on a competitive basis, make grants to, or enter into contracts or cooperative agreements with, eligible entities to implement reentry projects that serve eligible adults or eligible youth; (B) may use not more than 30 percent of such amounts to award funds under subparagraph (A) to eligible entities to serve as national or regional intermediaries to provide such funds to other eligible entities to— (i) implement reentry projects described in subparagraph (A); and (ii) monitor and support such entities; (C) shall use 30 percent of such amounts to award funds under subparagraph (A) to eligible entities using pay-for-performance contracts— (i) that specify a fixed amount that will be paid to the entity based on the achievement of specified levels of performance on the indicators of performance described in subsections (e)(1)(A)(i) and (e)(2)(A) within a defined timetable; and (ii) which may provide for bonus payments to such entity to expand capacity to provide effective services