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Four resources from Workforce System Strategies (WSS) highlight approaches for employers to promote and implement inclusive employment practices. Learn more about how community-based organizations can implement career bridge programs, the use and...

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...

Examines the social change methodology known as “collective impact” through the lens of issue complexity.

Examines the role of physical, human, social, and cultural capital in contributing to economic development and, in turn, workforce development within communities.

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.

Explores the reasoning, process, outcomes, and lessons learned by a workforce policy change in Michigan that shifted away from emphasizing short-term job search and job placement services towards longer-term investment in training for in-demand...

Provides an overview of labour market trends after the global economic crisis by presenting global trends in employment and unemployment projections and analyzing the structural changes in the labour market at a global level.

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.

Assesses the Aging Workers Initiative, which aimed to build the capacity of the public workforce investment system to serve older individuals.

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.