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Eduployment: Creating Opportunity Policies for America's You
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The paper, Eduployment: Creating Opportunity Policies for America's Youth, calls for powerful "opportunity" policies to address the crisis in education and employment for youth in the United States, especially our young people who are falling through the cracks in public systems of education, child welfare, and juvenile justice. The paper introduces the concept of "eduployment," which recognizes that learning and work are inextricably linked and opportunity policies for youth must prepare young people for postsecondary success, rather than the outmoded college or career tracks. |
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Trends and Challenges for Low-Wage Workers
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This report, released by the Economic Policy Institute in April 2012, focuses on low-wage workers- who they are, where they work, where they live, and what their future challenges may be in regards ti education/skill requirements, job quality, and wages. |
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Update on Job Training as Cross-Agency Priority Goal
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This report by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) provides an update on Job Training as it was idenitified as a Corss Agency Priority Goal for the federal Fiscal Year 2013 (October 2012-September 2013). This is the first quarterly update provided by OMB. |
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DOL Notice on Calculating WIA Allotments in FY 2013
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This Training and Employment Notice, issued by the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration on March 20, 2013, is meant to assist states in annual budget planning because of the lack oFy 2013 full year appropriations. It provides advance notice of potnential impacts of applying current deemographic and employment data on WIA allotment formulas. |
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State Sector Strategies Coming of Age: Implications for State Workforce Policymakers
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The report describes current sector
strategies, discusses their difference from traditional workforce and economic
development programs, and describes actions that state administrators and
policymakers can take to create strategies and implement them effectively.
These strategies are among a small number of
workforce interventions with statistical evidence showing improvements for
workers in employment opportunities and in wage increases. |
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Evaluation of Wworkforce Investment Act Waivers Final Report
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This is the final report from an evaluation, conducted by Mathematica Policy Research, on a selection of specific waivers from some requirements asscoaited with the Workforce Investment Act. Drawing from the two interim reports and additional analysis, this
final report summarizes the findings from all phases of data collection
under the study. Some of the
observations in the final report include lessons learned from the waiver
implementation process such as the need to streamline the waiver
request process and waiver-related paperwork requirements and the need
to share information and guidance on waivers and their potential uses
as well as the benefits of approving waivers for longer periods of
time. |
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Work-Based Learning Exemplars
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This report, released by the National Academy Foundation in January 2013, focuses on
internships that NAF, a â??network of career-themed academies that open doors for
underserved high school students to viable careers,â?Ì studied to identify best
practices in work-based learning. |
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Evaluation of Waivers Granted Under WIA: Profiles of 12 Sites in Final Interim Report
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This second interim report, released by Mathematica Policy Research in January 2013, provides findings primarily from the second
phase of data collection for this study. The report focuses on profiles
of the 12 local areas visited and provides descriptive information
about waiver use in those local areas. The profiles combine data
collected from state officials about the waiver application and
implementation process with information collected on site during
discussions with local area staff, employers, and training providers. |
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December 2012 Youth Unemployment Report
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This report summarizes data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' "Employment Situation - December 2012" by focusing on the informantion relevant to youth and young adult populations. |
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Beyond the Numbers: Data Use for Continuous Improvement of Programs Serving Disoconnected Youth
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This report, released by the American Youth Policy forum in December 2012, uses in-depth case studies to examine how three programs which serve disconnected youth are utilizing data as a tool for continuous program improvement and ongoing accountability. |
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