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Local Workforce Boards are charged with coordinating their local plans with their state’s workforce goals. The implementation of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) created changes to the responsibilities and structure of these...

Explains the importance of expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for workers without qualifying children in order to subsidize the earnings of less-educated workers in the United States.

Summarizes recent research to identify current gaps in employment and training research and to make recommendations for future research processes and priorities that could better inform policymakers, practitioners, job seekers, and employers.

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.

Describes the characteristics of youth who are not working or in school to inform policies that promote school retention, job training, and employment opportunities for youth.

Examines Philadelphia's workforce development system performance, operations and challenges over the past four fiscal years and offers a number of suggestions to address challenges.

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.

"This report profiles the farm labor use patterns in Michigan and the benefits of farm labor to Michigan agriculture and rural areas and also profiles the migrant and seasonal farmworker population in the state, identifies some of the current...

This brief describes the role and activities of One-Stop Operators in 40 comprehensive American Job Centers (AJCs). It provides an overview of the types of entities that served as Operators, the roles that Operators played, common supervision...

This brief analyzes 40 comprehensive American Job Centers (AJCs) selected to participate in the Institutional Analysis of AJCs shared resources. The paper analyzes resource sharing practices, participating partners, and the cost allocation...