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How do you know if your program or initiative is effective? How do you gather proven practices or implement evidence-based practices? To respond to these questions, WSS presents three research and evaluation resources! The following resources...

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....

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...

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...

Examines the design of New York’s earned income tax credit (EITC) program for noncustodial parents (NCP) and offers recommendations for improving the implementation in both New York and other states.

Presents data on trends in wages around the world and compares them with trends in global labour productivity in order to analyze their complex political, social, and economic effects on the global economy.

An evaluation of three separate pilot research projects in 2004 to investigate, develop, and validate strategies likely to yield the largest number of telework positions for returning veterans and people with disabilities.

Because the energy efficiency services sector (EESS) is poised to become an increasingly important part of the U.S. economy, this study explores projections and considerations for future growth.

Provides both seasoned and first-time Employment and Training Administration (ETA) grant applicants with guidance on ETA's grant programs, the competitive grant application process, developing a competitive grant application, and application...

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.