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Download full textShierholz, Heidi; Edwards, Kathryn Anne – Economic Policy Institute, 2011
The Great Recession left a crater in the labor market that has been devastating for unemployed Americans of all ages. After more than two years of unemployment at well over 8%, there is a hole of more than 11 million jobs, with average spells of unemployment lasting nearly nine months. The weak labor market has been particularly tough on young…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Employment Patterns, Public Policy, Labor Market
Project PLANTWORK: A Horticulture Employment Initiative for Workers with Developmental Disabilities.
National Council for Therapy and Rehabilitation through Horticulture, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD. – 1986
Intended for persons establishing job development programs for developmentally disabled individuals, this training manual details the structure and procedures of Project PLANTWORK, a 21-month demonstration program which placed approximately 70 workers with developmental disabilities into employment in horticulture industry firms or into…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Developmental Disabilities, Employment Opportunities, Employment Problems
Gueron, Judith M. – 1984
The Department of Labor's Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects (YIEPP) was the nation's largest demonstration to test a new approach to solving the employment problems of disadvantaged youths. Sixteen- to 19-year-olds from low income or welfare households who had not yet graduated from high school were offered minimum-wage jobs, part-time…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dropout Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities
Redmond, Michael – 1985
The Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC) sees a strong connection between the dropout decision and unemployment in the teen years and beyond. It developed JOBSTART, a model of a project giving youths a chance to work and focusing on educational remediation, occupational training strategies, and support services to dropouts. To…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Research
The Whole Person at Work: An Integrative Vocational Intervention Model for Women's Workplace Issues.
Peer reviewedGiordano, Francesca G. – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 1995
Explains a vocational intervention model, "the whole person at work group for faculty, staff, and community women": a group counseling approach designed to help women cope with work-related difficulties. Includes a brief overview of women's workplace issues and their connection to some current thoughts regarding women's identity development. (RJM)
Descriptors: Career Development, Employment, Employment Problems, Females
