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WIOA sets out to implement workforce education and employment system reforms to help strengthen the public workforce system. Although WIOA replaced WIA, recent studies under WIA sought to address research questions to inform such reforms. The...

Examines the characteristics and effectiveness of Alternative Staffing Organizations (ASOs).

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.

Examines the practices that states are using to become “model employers,” including strategies being implemented to expand the recruitment and hiring of people with disabilities within state government agencies.

Provides an overview of the American Unemployment Insurance (UI) system in comparison to that of European ones and attempts to identify lessons for the U.S. from the European experience.

Services provided were not enough to lift young mothers out of poverty or end welfare-dependency, and the impacts faded after the programs ended.

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.

Explores the struggles and challenges of older workers in today's economy and offers suggestions so that older Americans who want or need to work can do so.

Reviews findings from a survey entitled “Employers, Providers’ Attitudes and Beliefs Scale (EPAB)” where different types of job developers are asked about their attitudes towards employers and the employment process for people with disabilities.

Explores the effects of a program funded under the John Chafee Foster Care Independence Program that seeks to improve employment outcomes among foster youth transitioning into adulthood by providing one-on-one job search counseling.