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Three resources in Workforce System Strategies (WSS) highlight effective and promising initiatives designed to support individuals with specific challenges to employment. Learn more about individual placement and supports that help increase...

Focuses on assessing the effectiveness of labor market policies, including subsidized employment, training, and job search assistance.

Documents factors that contribute to unemployment of ex-offender and examines the role of self-efficacy in employment readiness with a focus on Social Cognitive Career Theory.

Explores the role empowerment plays in employment preparation and recidivism for formerly incarcerated Black men.

Outlines one employers’ healthcare tuition-advancement policy that addresses a major barrier in the advancement of low-income workers while meeting the employers' workforce needs.

Findings demonstrate that offenders who participated in community based employment programs were significantly more likely to obtain employment and significantly less likely to be re-arrested among the timeframes analyzed, unless they were younger...

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.

Researches the employment issues for people with disabilities by examining the impact of disability disclosure, leave as a reasonable accommodation, and the use of job applicant screeners on employment.

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

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...