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What can public workforce system service providers do to encourage women, and other underrepresented populations, to take advantage of the many employment opportunities with family-sustaining wages often afforded through registered apprenticeships?

Examines how alternative educational credentials are distributed throughout the U.S. population, how they are used in educational pathways, and what the association is between these credentials and various labor market outcomes.

Examines the design of New York’s earned income tax credit (EITC) program for noncustodial parents (NCP) and offers recommendations for improving the implementation in both New York and other states.

Documents historical unemployment trends by gender, race, and ethnicity, and examines the role of the industrial and occupational composition of employment in explaining recent trends.

Explains the importance of expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for workers without qualifying children in order to subsidize the earnings of less-educated workers in the United States.

Tests the Short Employment Hope Scale (EHS-14) in capturing the state of a person’s psychological empowerment, motivation, skills and resources, and goal-orientation as a factor in workforce development.

Examines exmployment trends and demographics for post-9/11 women veterans, women who served between the Vietnam Era and 1990, and their nonveteran counterparts.

Provides women workers and workforce professionals with information on hiring needs and challenges, training and entrepreneurship opportunities, and in-demand and emerging jobs in green industries.

This report presents findings from the implementation evaluation of the Military Spouse Career Advancement Account Demonstration, a joint initiative to support the spouses of military personnel pursuing postsecondary degrees or industry-recognized...

Reviews a 2010 Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (ADOT&PF) Training Program to demonstrate that apprenticeship programs improve the skills of women and minorities by providing them with the opportunity for, and access to,...