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Download full textKazis, Richard; Molina, Frieda – MDRC, 2016
WorkAdvance is a sectoral workforce development program designed to meet the needs of workers and employers alike. For unemployed and low-wage working adults, the program provides skills training in targeted sectors that have good-quality job openings with room for advancement within established career pathways. For employers in those sectors,…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Employment Programs, Job Skills, Skill Development
Bloom, Dan – MDRC, 2006
In May 2006, the National Poverty Center (NPC) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan hosted a meeting--"Research on Prisoner Reentry: What Do We Know and What Do We Want to Know?"--to discuss the state of research on employment-focused prisoner reentry programs. This paper, written as background for…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Public Officials, Federal Government, Recidivism
Anderson, Jacquelyn; Kato, Linda Yuriko; Riccio, James A.; Blank, Susan – MDRC, 2006
Since 1998, federally funded One-Stop Service Centers around the country have focused primarily on assisting the unemployed into work. WASC tests a strategy that expands that mission by targeting people who are already working, but at low wages. Through career coaching, skills training, and better connections with employers - and led by a newly…
Descriptors: Income, Welfare Services, Welfare Recipients, Labor Market
