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Three resources in Workforce System Strategies (WSS) highlight effective and promising initiatives designed to support individuals with specific challenges to employment. Learn more about individual placement and supports that help increase...

Four resources from Workforce System Strategies (WSS) highlight approaches for employers to promote and implement inclusive employment practices. Learn more about how community-based organizations can implement career bridge programs, the use and...

Future workers' access to good jobs will not be dependent upon educational or skill attainment or labor market demand, but a range of policy-related issues that affect job quality.

This report documents the three-year impact after random assignment for the Workforce Training Academy Connect (WTA) program. WTA aimed to help low-skilled adults improve their basic math and reading skills in order to engage in occupational...

Numerous types of interventions to improve individuals’ economic circumstances have been conceptualized and implemented throughout the United States and around the world. This paper reviews the literature on two broad types of interventions:...

The COVID-19 pandemic illuminated many inequities historically embedded in American healthcare, workforce, and education systems, among others. This brief shares eight strategies governors and states can use to promote equity throughout the...

To help states build capacity for innovation and interventions across the workforce system to support a more equitable economic recovery, ten Governors were selected to join the inaugural cohort of the National Governors Association Center for...

Evidence suggests that employers are increasingly changing their training and hiring practices to emphasize skills over formal qualifications. Skills-based hiring focuses on job candidates’ observable and measurable skills that are relevant to a...

This resource is focused on identifying a common understanding for stakeholders of what constitutes a quality job, considering such factors as economic mobility, gains in earnings, and career advancement.

This report presents the findings from an implementation study and impact study of the Bridges to Career Opportunities (BCO) model. BCO is a multi-component intervention that assists adults who are underemployed or unemployed adults in advancing...