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Three resources in Workforce System Strategies (WSS) highlight research, evaluations, and evidence that examine goal-setting, attainments, and outcomes for people with low incomes. Learn more about the effectiveness of four employment coaching...

Explores the promise of Alternative Staffing Organizations (ASOs) to understand how these businesses assist disadvantaged workers by coupling job brokering with supportive services to enhance workforce development.

Explores the provision of personal and work supports intended to help TANF recipients living with disabilities participate in employment program activities and competitive work.

Details a demonstration project’s initial results in providing ex-offenders with workforce readiness training, career counseling, and an intensive follow-up process, to prevent recidivism and to support the transition back into civic society.

Discusses a new skills-building model designed to help low-income adults prepare for, enter, and succeed in quality jobs in high-demand fields with opportunities for career growth.

Seeks to empirically connect privatization to TANF program outcomes through multi-level models that incorporate and estimate both individual-level and contextual factors within the state of Florida.

Analyzes strategies aimed at improving employment and other outcomes for groups who face serious barriers to employment.... as studied for the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ (HtE) Demonstration and Evaluation Project.

This resource assesses the implementation and early effects of two programs in Eugene and Medford, Oregon, which provided individualized employment retention and career advancement services to low- wage workers, including counseling on how to find...

This resource provides an overview of the practices of the Individual Placement and Support model developed by the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, which are aimed at promoting veteran employment.

Examines the outcomes for veterans seeking employment through the Department of Veteran Affairs' (VA) Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment program, as well as the progress the VA has made in addressing critical management issues.