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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.

Provides step-by-step instructions and resources on designing and implementing work-based learning opportunities to upgrade the skills of new and incumbent frontline workers.

Using data from the Employment Retention and Advancement Project (ERA), this report describes the employment and earning patterns of single parents over a three-year follow-up.

Provides background information on the features of the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) and details its many uses for human resource professionals and employers.

Examines the financial benefits and costs of three different programs in the national Employment Retention and Advancement projects that have increased employment and earnings among current and former welfare recipients.

Examines the effects of an innovative program designed to increase the incomes of low-wage workers via career coaching and access to skills training; effects of particular interest are on workers’ benefit receipt and earnings for three to four...

Presents implementation and two-year effectiveness results for the Reach for Success (RFS) program, operated by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services (DPSS).

Investigates the civilian employment experiences of female veterans of the all-volunteer force.

This resource provides an overview of the practices of the Individual Placement and Support model developed by the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, which are aimed at promoting veteran employment.

An evaluation of the Minnesota Family Investment Program, which employed a randomized control trial that showed sizable increases in employment and earnings, and reduction in poverty, for single-parent, long-term welfare recipients