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WIOA sets out to implement workforce education and employment system reforms to help strengthen the public workforce system. Although WIOA replaced WIA, recent studies under WIA sought to address research questions to inform such reforms. The...

Offers an overview of career and technical education (CTE) as an educational strategy for providing young people with the academic, technical, and employability skills and knowledge to pursue postsecondary training or higher education and enter a...

Documents progress made by the Department of Labor’s Youth Offender Demonstration Project in preparing youth offenders for employment and breaking the cycle of crime and dependency on public support.

Using data from an experimental evaluation of Job Corps, this article examines earning potential and longer term program impacts on participants.

Provides women workers and workforce professionals with information on hiring needs and challenges, training and entrepreneurship opportunities, and in-demand and emerging jobs in green industries.

Positive results are found in long-term educational, workforce participation, and family formation effects in this examination of career academies for adolescents transitioning to adulthood.

Measures the impact of the Youth Opportunity (YO) Initiative in targeting distressed neighborhoods throughout the U.S., and highlights effective practices for serving youth.

A rigorous three-year evaluation shows positive results for the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program, which aims to re-engage at-risk youth who have dropped out of high school and support them in attaining the skills and values to succeed as...

Shares responses about the workforce needs of New Jersey’s pharmaceutical and medical technology industry based on an online survey conducted in spring 2006.

Researchers examine how program structure may affect student success in the specific context of community college career-technical programs.