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Examines the practices that states are using to become “model employers,” including strategies being implemented to expand the recruitment and hiring of people with disabilities within state government agencies.

Highlights key results from an initiative designed to increase the number of low-skilled adults with post-secondary credentials through aligned, streamlined sector programming.

Industrial sector workforce initiatives addressing structural obstacles in three areas, industry practices, education and training systems, and public policy, are explored in this report.

During November and December 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, The researchers conducted a survey of state workforce agencies to better understand their research capacity and assistance needs. They sent the survey to all state workforce...

The COVID-19 pandemic has exponentially increased the need for a transformation of the workforce development system to meet the needs of today’s workers and employers with millions of Americans permanently out of work and in need of reskilling. It...

As a national partner to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Generation Work initiative, the researchers are exploring new ways that workforce service providers are connecting young people—particularly young adults of color—with the knowledge,...

To gain a better understanding of local workforce areas’ responses to going suddenly virtual in four states—Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania—researchers reviewed the websites of every workforce area to identify the services made...

In 2020, in collaboration with ETA, the Chief Evaluation Office launched the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Research Portfolio project. This project aims to generate a range of short and long-term research options and build the...

This resource is an evaluation of the second round of Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG), which fund education, training, support services, and employment assistance for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families recipients and other...

This brief provides a standard definition for "rural" to apply to collecting, analyzing, and reporting data and findings for the Human Services Programs in Rural Contexts study.