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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...

This report highlights a strategy that combines short-term measures such as job-friendly macroeconomic and labor market policies with further action to tackle long-standing imbalances and ensure lasting job recovery.

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.

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.

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.

Discusses a new skills-building model designed to help low-income adults prepare for, enter, and succeed in quality jobs in high-demand fields with opportunities for career growth.

A brief high-level guide for implementing and understanding job search assistance (JSA) programs which are short-term, relatively low-intensity and low-cost programs to help job seekers find jobs.

Examines employment strategies for ex-offenders as well as key takeaways for Second Chance grantees and other programs serving formally incarcerated individuals.

Quantitative study of the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) that analyzed existing administrative data and customer satisfaction survey data for PY 2009 and 2010, and (2) a process study based on interviews with national SCSEP...