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This week, we highlight resources that describe innovative alternative pathways that develop the skills of opportunity youth and adults. The first resource presents a six-pillar career pathways framework that includes enrollment policies,...

Evaluates the use of real-time labor market information (LMI) to better align postsecondary education and training programs with current labor market demand, particularly at the community college level.

Reports on lessons from Department of Labor green jobs grantees’ efforts to disseminate labor market information (LMI) created during the 18-month grant period.

Examines emerging Internet technologies that collect and analyze advertised job openings and have the potential to provide community colleges with an array of real-time intelligence about the occupational and skill demands in their local labor...

Describes how cities’ investments in “green” innovations have the potential to create employment opportunities for low-income, underserved residents in urban areas throughout the U.S.; the resource specifically highlights Ann Arbor, MI; Austin,...

This resource updates the results of the first phase of a multiphase initiative to identify and invest in high road employment models in California. This update includes the worker-led development of a new framework for assessing job quality and...

This report examines up-to-date information on the demographics and employment characteristics of those who perform crop work.

This report discusses several ongoing trends in the labor market and their potential effects on the nature of work over the next 10 to 15 years for low-income populations. The trends are used to highlight potential questions to inform research and...

Provides an overview of major real-time labor market information vendor products and services and discusses ways in which states and regional workforce development centers use this information to address current issues.

This study has developed novel information on workers’ actual economic advancement prospects and pathways. The information is intended to support training programs’ design decisions aiming to promote participants’ advancement over the course of...