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Examines the practices that states are using to become “model employers,” including strategies being implemented to expand the recruitment and hiring of people with disabilities within state government agencies.

Assesses the extent to which priority of service requirements under the Jobs for Veterans Act are being met, with a particular focus on implementation of priority of services at the state and local levels through the One-Stop Career Center system.

Provides a framework for understanding, discussing and acting on higher education public policy issues in Maine.

Provides executive directors or regional councils with self-assessment strategies on how to improve the overall performance and management of their regional planning and development organizations.

The goals of this in-depth analysis was to better understand the intermediary approach and identify promising models and practices that can be valuable in using intermediaries in the workforce development system to better serve youth with...

Examines the efficacy of providing self-employment training to unemployed and other individuals interested in self-employment using data from Project GATE (Growing America Through Entrepreneurship).

Identifies and describes available funding streams for a range of integrated services for working adults and their families.

Analyzes interventions to increase employment and reduce welfare dependency for low-income adults with serious barriers to employment by reviewing three studies in the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ (HtE) Demonstration and Evaluation...

This toolkit was developed to help practitioners and their employer partners to assess the business value of their workforce services. The Business Value Assessment Toolkit includes a planning handbook, an automated Excel file for tracking...

Explores the crippling labor market for teens and makes a case for developing a comprehensive approach to job creation for this population.