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National American Indian Heritage Month gives us an opportunity to pay tribute to the rich history and culture of Native Americans. This month, we highlight two resources that showcase job training programs across different tribal communities in...

With university tuition costs on the rise, community colleges have become more attractive to those looking to start or build a career. Community colleges can provide students with quality career training programs while meeting local workforce...

In the gig economy, self-employed and contingent workers find work through digital platforms and other avenues. Developing strategies to serve these freelance or gig workers is challenging, and public workforce agencies rely on research about the...

Policy-makers, practitioners, and researchers have created many strategies to prepare workers to meet the growing education and training requirements of the current and future American workforce. These resources explore some of those strategies....

Successful sector partnerships are driven by active employer and industry partners working alongside education and workforce stakeholders. These WSS resources detail promising strategies for creating or enhancing these relationships. They describe...

Focuses on skill development, with special attention to the mechanisms that connect education to employment, to address the high global youth unemployment crisis.

Presents key elements for creating and sustaining regional partnerships, innovation, and economic growth.

Contains lessons about employer engagement useful to workforce partnership practitioners as well as to the national leaders, evaluators, and funding organizations that take part in the National Fund.

Highlights promising and rigorous evidence that suggests mature, nonprofit-led, sector-focused programs can increase the earnings of disadvantaged populations. This analysis also highlights these programs’ common elements for success.

Traces the history of seven regional workforce collaboratives in the initiative, from before the launch of the National Fund through early 2010.