Browse Our Community Library

This Veterans Day, Workforce System Strategies summarizes studies that explore employment strategies for veterans! The first provides a synthesis of veterans’ access to multiple workforce development programs and presents veteran employment...

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, over 15 million workers were self-employed in 2016. Self-employment can offer dislocated workers a path to financial security and economic mobility. In 2013, the Department of Labor funded the...

A Bureau of Justice Statistics study found that 7 out of 10 prisoners released in 2005 were rearrested within three years of release. Ex-offenders face various employment and life challenges post-release, which may be exacerbated by limited...

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.

Estimates the impact of the Nevada Reemployment and Eligibility Assessment (REA) program on claimant Unemployment Insurance (UI) receipt and quarterly wage outcomes following program entry.

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 extent to which individuals with disabilities receive Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits and the rate these individuals use the public workforce system and become employed after receiving services.

Future workers' access to good jobs will not be dependent upon educational or skill attainment or labor market demand, but a range of policy-related issues that affect job quality.

Examines the experiences faced by injured Iraq and Afghanistan veterans integrating back into the workforce.

Examines the response of state workforce agencies in providing public workforce and unemployment insurance services to unemployed workers before, during, and after the recent recession.