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Apprenticeships provide individuals with on-the-job training and contextualized learning. For over 80 years, US DOL has overseen the Registered Apprenticeship (RA) system, in partnership with State Apprenticeship Agencies. Today there are about...

Advanced manufacturing plays a vital role in the current and future economic prosperity of the United States. To support community colleges in the development of industry-aligned training programs in manufacturing and other industries, USDOL...

Documents factors that contribute to unemployment of ex-offender and examines the role of self-efficacy in employment readiness with a focus on Social Cognitive Career Theory.

Traces the history of seven regional workforce collaboratives in the initiative, from before the launch of the National Fund through early 2010.

Summarizes the lessons learned from the nine planning grant states under the Work Support Strategies (WSS), a multiyear initiative to help selected states test and implement more effective and integrated approaches to delivering key work supports,...

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.

Summarizes and builds on findings from a larger research report that discusses how low-income working families make child care decisions and how these families’ decisions are shaped or limited by key contextual factors.

Summarizes major findings from more than a dozen separate publications of the Evaluation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program.

Reports on the third year (2010) of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions (NFWS), which is an initiative of national and local funders (including Local Workforce Investment Boards) whose goal is the career advancement of low-wage workers using...

Presents suggestive evidence on aspects of training funded by the Trade Adjustment Assistance program (under the 2002 amendments) that were associated with better outcomes for participants.