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Workforce Development COVID-19 Resources

4/2/20 Opportunity Youth Community Recommendations for CV-4 Legislation
NYEC 3/26/20 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) Summary
NYEC Survey Form on Covid-19 Outbreak and Response
Self-Care Resources
Undocumented Youth Covid-19 Resource List
Guidance for Programs Pivoting to Online Instruction developed by Achieving the Dream
Covid-19 Resources for Workers Cooperatives
Guidance for teleworking and remote collaborations developed by Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis
Better Employment and Training Strategies (BETS) Task Force
- The Better Employment and Training Strategies Task Force, or BETS, was formed in November 2020 to develop recommendations for the Biden-Harris administration and Congress on critical workforce matters.
To Build Back Better, Job Quality Is the Key [April 15, 2021]
- This report makes the case that improving job quality should be a central goal of economic recovery and rebuilding efforts, and they lay out practical policy ideas toward that end. The report includes a framework illustrating the multiple dimensions of job quality and outlines the variety of institutions and organizations that can play a role in improving job quality.
Better Employment and Training Strategies Taskforce Final Reports [April 7, 2021]
- This brief contains the final reports of six Better Employment and Training Strategies (BETS) Taskforce workgroups, discussing unemployment insurance, workforce development, infrastructure investments, job quality (forthcoming), youth employment (forthcoming), and federal jobs initiatives.