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Policy-makers, practitioners, and researchers have created many strategies to prepare workers to meet the growing education and training requirements of the current and future American workforce. These resources explore some of those strategies....

To increase the ability of community colleges to address today’s workforce needs, the TAACCCT program awarded nearly $2 billion dollars to more than 700 community colleges. The TAACCCT grants focus on strengthening these colleges by building...

Provided descriptions of Breaking Through tribal colleges, their experiences in piloting expanded initiative strategies, expounds on lessons learned at each institution, and plans to expand programs in the future.

Assesses the extent to which priority of service requirements under the Jobs for Veterans Act are being met, with a particular focus on implementation of priority of services at the state and local levels through the One-Stop Career Center system.

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...

Describes outreach practices utilized and challenges experienced among state workforce agencies attempting to increase participant enrollment and retention in the Trade Adjustment Assistance program.

Provides impact estimates for both participants and nonparticipants of the Trade Adjustment Assistance program under the 2002 amendments.

This toolkit was developed to help practitioners and their employer partners to assess the business value of their workforce services. The Business Value Assessment Toolkit includes a planning handbook, an automated Excel file for tracking...

Explores the crippling labor market for teens and makes a case for developing a comprehensive approach to job creation for this population.

Presents lessons on promoting employment stability and earnings growth among current or former welfare recipients and other low-income individuals, from the 12 programs in the Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA).